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The locations in parenthesis indicate current place of residence.

Chris Agee (Belfast) teaches American Studies at The Open University in Ireland. A first collection, In The New Hampshire Woods, was published by Dedalus in 1992; a second, First Light, has just been completed. He edited Scar on the Stone: Contemporary Poetry From Bosnia (Bloodaxe, 1998), a PBS Recommendation. A collection of Balkan essays, Journey to Bosnia, will appear later this year.

Jill Bamber (London) was a Blue Nose Poet of the Year in 1998. She has previously won the London Writers and the National Poetry Foundation Competitions and is the author of five verse collections, most recently Flying Blind (National Poetry Foundation, 2000).

Anne Berkeley (Cambridge) has had many poems published in magazines. Flarestack published a pamphlet, The Buoyancy Aid and Other Poems, in 1997.

Paola Bilbrough (Brunswick, Australia) has had work published in
the uk in Stand and The London Magazine. Her first collection of poems, Bell Tongue, was published by Victoria University Press (NZ) in 1999. She has a writing fellowship at Keio University in Tokyo this year, where she will be working on a novel.

Alison Brackenbury (Gloucestershire) has published five collections of poetry. The most recent is After Beethoven (Carcanet, 2000).

Lawrence Brady (Crosby, Merseyside) has lectured in History and
Art History and has published a biography of the politician and
journalist T. P. O’Connor (1983). He has studied painting with the
Open College of the Arts and has been a prize-winner in the
College’s national competition.

Carole Bromley (York) has had poems published in a number of
magazines including Stand, The Rialto and Smiths Knoll. She won
first prize in the Staple Open Poetry Competition and First Lines in 2000 and was runner-up for the Housman Prize. She is currently working on her first collection. The locations in parenthesis indicate current place of residence.

WayneBurrows (London) has a first collection, Marginalia, just out from Peterloo. His book on the work of artist Sarah Lucas, With Knobs On..., is available from PAVIC/Culture Matters. He works as a freelance editor with The Literary Consultancy.

Stephen Burt (Minnesota) is assistant professor of English at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he is completing a book about Randall Jarrell. His book of poems, Popular Music, won the Colorado Prize for 1999; some of its work can also be found in New Poetries II (Carcanet).

Ian Caws (West Sussex) has published nine collections of poetry,
including The Ragman Totts (Redcliffe, 1990) – a PBS Recommendation – and, most recently, Dialogues in Mask (Pikestaff, 2000).

Polly Clark (Oxford) works in publishing. A former Eric Gregory Award winner, her first collection, Kiss (Bloodaxe, 2000), was a PBS recommendation.

Julia Copus (Blackburn) won a pbs Recommendation for her first book, The Shuttered Eye (Bloodaxe, 1995). She is currently completing her second collection.

Rose Flint (Bath) teaches creative writing and is an art therapist. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including Poetry Review, Poetry Wales and Acumen. Her first collection is Blue Horse of Morning (Seren).

Linda France (Northumberland) is the editor of Sixty Women Poets (1993) and the author of the volumes Red (1992), The Gentleness of the Very Tall (1994) and Storyville (1997), all from Bloodaxe. A new collection, The Simultaneous Dress, is due in 2002.

Anne-Marie Fyfe (London) runs Coffee-House Poetry at The Troubadour in Earls Court, teaches poetry at Richmond Adult College and is a freelance creative-writing tutor. Her poems have won prizes in the Arvon, Peterloo, Bridport and Kent & Sussex competitions and are published in Late Crossing (Rockingham, 1999). A second collection is due in October 2001.

Judy Gahagan (London) won first prize in the Peterloo Competition 2000. She is a freelance writer and translator and runs seminars and tutorials with the Poetry School in London. Her most recent verse collection, Crossing The No-Man’s Land, was published by Flambard in 1999.

David Gravender (Seattle) is a former Tabla prize-winner and E.J.
Pratt Poetry Award recipient. His work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Queen’s Quarterly and previous Tabla anthologies. He is currently looking to publish a first collection.

Eamon Grennan (New York) is the Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College. His most recent publications are Relations: New & Selected Poems (Graywolf, 1998), Leopardi: Selected Poems (Princeton University Press, 1997), and a collection of critical essays, Facing the Music: Irish Poetry in the Twentieth Century (Creighton University Press, 1999). In Ireland, Gallery Press recently published his Selected & New Poems.

Kathleen Jones (Cumbria) is a full-time writer. Her publications include a biography of Catherine Cookson and A Passionate Sisterhood (Virago), the lives of the sisters, wives and daughters of the ‘Lake’ poets. Her most recent poetry collection is Unwritten Lives (Redbeck).

Khan Singh Kumar (Surrey) explores issues to do with Asians living in the west in many of his poems. His work has been published in Poetry Review, PN Review, Stand, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland, New Writing 10 and Magma.

Medbh McGuckian (Belfast) is in charge of the MA in Poetry Writing at Queen’s University, Belfast. Her books, including a Selected Poems, are available from Gallery Press in Ireland and Wake Forest Press in The United States.

David Morley (Warwick) directs the Writing Programme at the University of Warwick. He has received a major Eric Gregory Award, an Arts Council Writers Award and an Arts Council Fellowship. He co-edited The New Poetry for Bloodaxe. His work has appeared in The British Council’s New Writing and Faber’s Poetry Introduction anthologies.

Emma Neale (Dunedin, New Zealand) is a freelance editor and writer. Her new novel, Little Moon, is out with Vintage (NZ) in the middle of 2001.

Katherine Page (Middlesex) works as the research director for the
National Readership Survey. Some of her poems appear in the new
Blodeuwedd anthology (Headland, 2000).

M. R. Peacocke (Cumbria) lives and works on a hill farm and practises as a counsellor. Peterloo have published two collections of her poems: Marginal Land (1988) and Selves (1995).

Mario Petrucci (Enfield), physicist, ecologist, songwriter and twicewinner of the London Writers Competition, is currently an RLF Fellow at Oxford Brookes University and a tutor for the Poetry Society’s ‘Poetryclass’ initiative. Shrapnel and Sheets is available from Headland and Bosco from Hearing Eye.

Sally Read (London) has had several poems published in British magazines and is represented in the Blodeuwedd anthology (Headland, 2000). She is currently working towards her first collection.

Leonie Rushforth (London) teaches English, has written reviews and articles for various magazines and is just beginning to publish poetry.

Robert Saxton (London) works in illustrated book publishing. He is a regular contributor to Poetry Review and his work has also appeared in the TLS, The Observer, PN Review, The Paris Review and London Magazine. A first collection, The Promise Clinic, appeared from Enitharmon in 1994 and a second, Bottomfishing, is nearing completion.

Robert Seatter (London) will appear in Anvil New Poets III spring 2001). He has been a prize-winner twice in the National Poetry Competition and four times in Tabla’s own contest. He also won first prize in the 2000 Poetry London competition. He works at the BBC.

Henry Shukman (Warwickshire), an ex-trawlerman, toilet-cleaner and professional trombonist, is now a travel-writer. He recently won The Daily Telegraph Arvon Poetry Prize, a Times Literary Supplement Poetry Prize and an Arts Council of England Writer’s Award.

Ian Starsmore (Norfolk) is a painter, printmaker and writer. He was the originator of the Cultural Studies courses at Norwich School of Art and now teaches for the Open University.

George Szirtes (Norfolk) is the author of fourteen volumes of poetry, including The Budapest File (Bloodaxe, 2000) and An English Apocalypse (forthcoming). He writes regular book reviews for The Times and is working on a monograph about the artist Ana Maria Pacheco. A book of translations from the Hungarian poet Agnes Nemes Nagy is also in the pipeline.

Howard Wright (Belfast) lectures in Art History at the University of Ulster at Belfast. He was a runner-up in the Bridport Prize 2000 and his poems have appeared in Stand, The North, The Irish University Review and Writing Ulster: Northern Narratives. A pamphlet collection, Usquebaugh, was published by the Redbeck Press in 1997.

Lynne Wycherley (Oxfordshire) is a keen environmentalist and has
won an award for rural poetry. A former Blue Nose Poet-of-the-
Year, her pamphlet collections are Cracks in the Ice (Acumen, 1999) and A Sea of Dark Fields (Hilton House, 2000).