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JOOLZ DENBY has published four poetry collections (Virgin Books and Bloodaxe Books), the latest being Errors Of The Spirit (Flambard). Her novel Stone Baby (winner of the New Crimewriter of the Year Award and shortlisted nominee for The John Creasey Award) is published by Harper Collins. She lives in Bradford.

GRAHAM MORT lives in North Yorkshire and has published five books of poetry. His latest Circular Breathing (Dangaroon Press) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He also writes short fiction and scripts for BBC Radio 4. He teaches creative writing at Lancaster University and manages the British Council mentoring scheme, Crossing Borders, for African writers.

T ANDERS CARSON has published in 21 countries, with broadcasts on NPR (Lexington, KY), local University radio station, Swedish Provincial Radio and on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He’s been a writer-in-residence at The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico. His collection, A Different Shred of Skin, was published by the Undead Poets Press in 2002.

KATHRYN DASZKIEWICZ lives in Lincolnshire and has recently been awarded a bursary from East Midlands Arts. She has had poems in various magazines including The Rialto, Thumbscrew, Mslexia and is featured in New Writing recently published by Shoestring Press.

ANDREW DETHERIDGE, recent poet in residence at Sandwell College, has published 600 poems in the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Canada and USA and Greece. His appearance in journals include: The Rialto, Orbis and Poetry Nottingham International; with four poetry collections, the latest In Character (Partners, 2001).

CHRIS TUTTON has three collections out, most recently Ecumenical Shadows (1998). He appears on tv and radio: on Carlton Television as resident poet on Shift, The Big Breakfast on Channel 4; he’s recorded poems for Radio 1 and is three-time guest on Loose Ends, with live appearances at Edinburgh Book Festival, Ledbury, Bath, Cheltenham and the Louth Literature Festival (2001).

DAVID LIGHTFOOT’S publications include Winterman’s Company (an occult novel about the Lincoln Imp) and four poetry collections: Down Private Lanes (winner of the Rosemary Arthur Award), Last Rounds (pilot for Staple’s First Editions), Correcting Fluid (Frogmore), Wounds Heal (Rockingham). He helped edit Sunk Island Review and was founder editor of Seam.

MILNER PLACE came to poetry late after varied careers, mostly abroad. His first collection written in Spanish was published in Spain (1977). Five English collections followed including In A Rare Time of Rain (Chatto & Windus) with another due in 2002 from Wrecking Ball Press. His work has appeared on BBC1, Radio 3 and 4. Reading Tours include: Spain, Germany and Ireland.

JO PEARSON, originally from Wakefield, now lives in York. She’s been a member of York Poetry Workshop and the Dream Catcher Workshop. Her first full collection appeared in Half A Pint Of Shandy, published by Route Press in 2001.

IAN SEED Born 1956. From 1974, he has published poems. Fled to Italy in early 1980s and has since worked at various jobs abroad, picking up langauges. Dropped out of the poetry scene in 1988; then returned in 2000 with The Stranger, new collection's planned for later in 2002, called Rescue.

With many stories published and a novel, Miasma, CHRIS FIRTH has edited short stories collections, including his own. Arts Council Writers Award winner in 2000 he now edits fiction for Dream Catcher and the T E S. Publications include: The Unexpected Pond (Route), Hullabaloo (Solomon), Whitby Ghost Stories and Witches of North Yorkshire (Caedmon Press). He lives in Whitby.

ANNEMARIE AUSTIN, born in Devon, has lived most of her life in the West Country - longest in Western-super-Mare, where she works as an Open University Tutor. Four collections of her poetry have been published; most recent, Door Upon Door (Bloodaxe 1999). Her work has been anthologised, including in Sixty Women Poets and the Forward anthologies (1996, 2000).

HELEN BURKE’S poetry is widely published in magazines and anthologies; winning poems in The Suffolk Poetry Prize, the Manchester and Norwich competitions. Her collections are: Poetry - Helen Burke (1997), Island of Dreams (1997) and Gift (2001). She’s now writing and illustrating a volume of mystical poetry and book of poems on her hometown York.

FRED VOSS, dropping out of an UCLA Ph.D programme in English Literature, started work as a Hollywood busboy, then a steel-rule die maker, a steelcutter, a machinist, while writing novels and then poetry. The factory experience became the theme of his writing. His first collection, Goodstone Aircraft Company has been called a classic. Republished in the UK by Bloodaxe Press, further highly praised poetry collections have followed.

ANTONY DUNN won the 1995 Newdigate Prize while reading English at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. His collection, Pilots and Navigators was published by OUP (1998). He recieved the Eric Gregory Award (2000) and took part in the First Lines Poetry Tour 2001. His second collection, Flying Fish (Carcanet Oxford Poets) is out this year. He also writes for film and the stage.

PETER LEWIN, from Lake District, spent most of his childhood in Yealand and Silverdale. He currently lives and writes in Preston, Lancashire. His collection, Knightwood, was published by Dog Press, London, in 1997, with a new collection, The Temperature of Stars, forcoming from Glass Head Press.

MARGARET SPEAK from the Calder Valley lives in York. She’s the co-ordinator of the York Poetry Workshop, a founder-organiser of Yorkshire Open Poetry Competition. Her poetry has won prizes in competitions, including Bridport, Cardiff and Exerter, and appeared in - TLS, Poetry Review, Writing Women and Dream Catcher. Her first collection is The Firefly Cage (Redbeck, 1998).

PAT BORTHWICK, part time Creative Writing tutor at Leeds University, has published a full poetry collection, Between Clouds and Caves (Arc) and four pamphlets (Pharos Press). Twice awarded a Yorkshire Arts’ bursary, she’s currently writer in residence for the East Riding Wolds and is working with photographer Terry Bunney on a national project - The Nature of the Land.

SAM GARDINER, born in Northern Ireland, has spent half his life in England, mostly Lincolnshire, where he worked as an architect until his retirement. He won the National in 1993. His work often appears in magazines, recently TLS and Dream Catcher as well as being a featured poet in Areté. His first collection, Protestant Windows, was published by Lagan Press in 2000.

ROBERT ETTY was born in Lincolnshire, where he still lives. His fifth collection, The Blue Box, was published by Shoestring Press in 2001.

T. F. GRIFFIN, after early encouragement from Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes, went on to appear in, A Rumoured City - New Poets From Hull (Bloodaxe 1982), with a first full collection out in 1990, Cider Days (Headland). Well represented in magazines, he often reads at festivals, including Ikley, Hull, and Manchester Poetry Festival. Two Yorkshire Arts bursaries, he also received a Royal Literary Fund award in 2001. A second collection, Kavita, is due from Shoestring Press.

SEÁN BODY from Co Limerick has lived most of his adult life in Greater Manchester where he has worked as a probation officer and held various social work posts. His poems have won several prizes and been anthologised. A full collection of his poetry, Witness (Tarantula Press, 1995, 1998) and a pamphlet, Lines of Dissent, with Ian Parks (Tarantula 2001) have appeared.

IAN PARKS was born in 1959. His last collection was A Climb Through Altered Landscapes. He tutors in creative writing for the Open College of the Arts and reviews poetry for Poetry Quarterly Review. He received the John Mansfield Award for Poetry from the Society of Authors in 2001 and the Oppenheim Award in 2002.

INDIA RUSSELL’S poetry has appeared widely in journals; her first collection is from Bunker Hill Publishing, out later this year. She’s booked for festivals for her The Kaleidoscope of Time - a story in poetry and music. As in the past, she’ll be reading at the Hay Festival 2002. She’s currently working on a research degree on Friedrich Hölderlin.

EMMA-JANE ARKADY’S first full collection, Lithium, is by Arc. She has four pamphlets out and has appeared in magazines and newspapers: Leviathan Quarterly, The Independent on Sunday, The Rialto, Dream Catcher and The Railway Quarterly. Her current passions - railways, Boodles and architecture.

WILLIAM PARK, received Major Eric Gregory Award (1990) and Hawthornden Fellowship (1991) and has a collection due out from Glass Head Press 2002. His poems have appeared in Poetry Review, The Observer, Critical Quarterly, The Rialto, Stand, Poetry Wales, Ambit and Dream Catcher. He’s currently studying for an MA in Writing and Reading Poetry at Liverpool Hope.

JULIA DAVIS’S visit to Israel in 2000 radically changed the nature and form of her poetry. Since then she’s appeared in Poetry Greece, Brando’s Hat, Pennine Platform, Stovepipe (US) and Dream Catcher. She read at Edinburgh Festival 2001. Her collection is Half Asleep Tree (Belle Vue Press); a new collection’s forthcoming from Glass Head Press.