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James Ashley bears a not unslight resemblance to Brian Jones (post-swimming pool) (spooky) and is fond of quoting Mrs T, aka St. F of A, (harmony where there is discord, etc) (spookier still).

Liz Cashdan is a lecturer and writer living in Sheffield, and winner with Julia Casterton of the Poetry Business Competition; the collection Troublesome Cattle is out now.

Julia Casterton lives in London. She is a tutor for the Open University and teaches creative writing. Her pamphlet, That Slut Cleopatra (Turret Books) appeared in 1988 and the collection Troublesome Cattle is out now.

Brendan Cleary edits the Echo Room (and Press) in Newcastle. Wide Skirt recently published his full-length collection, White Bread and ITV.

Stanley Cook's Selected Poems are published by Littlewood Press.

John Critchley is a football fanatic with more ambition than talent, apparently. His ambitions include writing novels and plays and getting a reply from the editor of Football Today.

Gordon Day lives in Wakefield, where he's training in office skills(?).

Maura Dooley's new collection, Explaining Magnetism, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Jane Duran was born in Cuba and grew up in the United States and Chile. She lives in London and works for the British Council. She's had work in many magazines and anthologies, and has won prizes.

Leo de Freyne was born in Dublin 1952. His poems have appeared in various magazines. He also draws and keeps a journal, but he wouldn't show us.

Peter de Rous has had many unrewarding jobs, is now ending as he began, as a poet. To know more, read his poem. See if you agree.

Rebecca Farmer was born in Birmingham, read Drama at Manchester University and now teaches in Kent. She has very nice handwriting.

Joe Fearn is currently studying Philosophy at Hull University. He is 35 and becoming ideologically less sound every day.

Owen Gallagher teaches in London, dreams of cutting turf in Donegal.

Lavinia Greenlaw has a collection from Turret Books called something we can't remember, but it's splendid and handsomely produced. A larger collection is due from Coltins/Harvill.

Harry Guest's fifth (big) Anvil collection is due any moment.

Henry J Hughes is from New York, teaches composition and creative writing, is off to Japan for a year.

Phil Jones used to live in Wales and now lives in Penistone since retiring from teaching to spend more time with his typewriter.

James Keery, he of the acid tongue and astute critical apparatus, comes from would you believe it Warrington.

Mimi Khalvati's first full-length collection In White Ink is due from Carcanet.

Helen Kitson is 25 and comes from Worcester. She's beginning to break through into the best magazines (i.e. us and The Wide Skirt).

John Lancaster is among other things a trombone-playing I aesthete and ex-town planner. Collections from us (hint) and Giant Steps/Littlewood.

Linda Marshall's contributors notes have gone astray. She lives near enough to the epicentre to get to our writing days, but then people have come from London and Edinburgh.

Christine McNeill was born in Vienna but now lives in Cromer. She has poems in the Bloodaxe New Women Poets anthology. As have Mimi Khalvati, Lavinia Greenlaw and Liz Cashdan.

David Morley is Mandelstam (in translation), his new book from Littlewood (£5.95).

Graham Mort lives in Clapham, N Yorks. He has 3 collections, the most recent being Sky Burial (Dangeroo Press).

Bill Mycock was an industrial photographer; having taken premature retirement he concentrates on his own photography, drawing and writing.

Sheila North is American. No relation to Oliver (or any other well-known organ). Does not drink coffee, watch the Super Bowl, or possess a Gold Card (whatever that is). Is always whinging about BR.

Sean O'Brien is Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Dundee. His third collection, which may be called HMS Glasshouse, may be published in November, by OUP.

Margery Ramsden has an agent who sits all day on her (Margery's) novel. Margery wants it known that she (Margery) hasn't got a degree.

Philip Reynolds is an Anglican priest and an artist but not necessarily in that Order.

Mark Robinson lives in York and is editor of Scratch, one of the best of the up-and-coming magazines. He has a least one pamphlet available.

Paul Seabrook lives in Tulse Hill. Now you know as much as we do.

Myra Schneider lives in London. Opening the Ice, he joint collection with Ann Dancy, was published by us last year; her latest book, Crossing Point, is due out fror Littlewood in November.

Ted Schofield lives in Huddersfield, though he is Canadian and was brought up in Surrey. He recently married Alyson.

Trevor Simpson is a violinist, a Christian and an insurance policy wording drafter. Nothing like hedging your bets, as Pascal would have said.

Mary Rudbeck Stanko lives in London, Ontario, and has had work published in many magazines both in Britain and Canada.

Charles Tomlinson's new Collected Poems will be available soon from OUP.

Hugh Waterhouse lives in Sheffield. His favourite food is lox and bagels and if he wins he would like to help people in poor countries.

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