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NADIA AL FAZIL-KAREEM lives in London and has had poems published in magazines including Magma.

CHRISTOPHER ALLAN recently retired from the NHS where he’d worked as a podiatrist. He is now concentrating on petanque and poetry. His work has been published in many journals and anthologies since 1994.

PAUL BAVISTER has published three books of poetry, the most recent being The Prawn Season (Two Rivers Press). He also teaches at the University of Reading and Birkbeck College, London.

ALISON BRACKENBURY was born in 1953. Her seventh collection of poems is Singing In the Dark (Carcanet, 2008)

JUDY BROWN’s pamphlet, Pillars of Salt (2006) was one of the winners of Templar Poetry’s first pamphlet competition. She received the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Poetry Prize in 2005.

ANNA CROWE the Scottish poet and translator, is the co-founder of StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival and was Artistic Director for its first seven years. Recent publications include Punk with Dulcimer (Peterloo 2006) and Tugs in the Fog (Bloodaxe 2006), the latter, translations of Joan Margarit, is a PBS Recommendation.

JULIA DEAKIN won the 2006 Northern Exposure Prize and her The Half-Mile-High Club was a 2007 Poetry Business Competition winner. Her first full length collection,Without A Dog, was published by Graft in 2008.

RUARY MACKENZIE DODDS lives in Glen Lyon in Perthshire but in the summer runs The Dragonfly Project in The Fens. He’s had seven short stories and seven poems published in magazines, including Outposts and Northwards.

ELLIE EVANS was born in Camarthen and grew up in SouthWales. She is working on a Ph.D in Creative Writing, which includes a study of Pascale Petit, at Bath Spa University.

GAYE FARROW lives in Hertfordshire and teaches at a local primary school: has previously appeared in The Rialto, and a pamphlet, Ebb-tide, was published in 2000.

GRAHAM FULTON lives in Scotland. His latest collections are Inner Circle, a sequence about the Glasgow Underground, and Found Objects, a CD of photographs; both were published by Controlled Explosion Press in 2008.

PHILIP GROSS is Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University. His new collection The Water Table is due from Bloodaxe in 2009 and I Spy Pinhole Eye, a collaboration with photographer Simon Dennison, is to be published by Cinnamon Press.

HARRY GUEST lives in Devonshire. He’s just completed A Farewell With Flowers, his fourth novel, and itinerant press have recently published From A Condemned Cell, his translation of Jean Cassou’s war sonnets.

CHRIS HARDY has had poems in many magazines, including Stand, Poetry Review, The North: his second collection A Moment of Attention is just out from Original Plus Press. This is his first appearance in The Rialto.

DANIEL HEALY was born in 1972 in Wales: his first collection Winter Lines was published by Cinnamon Press in 2008.

ROBERT HODKINSON lives in Derby and has been writing poetry for two years - other poems have appeared in Poetry Nottingham and in local anthologies.

JENNY HOPE lives in Worcestershire with her partner and two young children: she is working on her first collection.

JUDITH KAZANTZIS lives and works in Lewes, East Sussex, and has published nine collections of poetry, most recently Just After Midnight (Enitharmon 2004). She has published a first novel, Of  Love and Terror (2002), and is also a visual artist. See www.judithkazantzis.com and www.writersartists.net

RICHARD LAMBERT lives in Bristol: his pamphlet, The Magnolia, was published by The Rialto last year, since when he’s ‘been writing lots of poems’.

TARIQ LATIF’s most recent collection, The Punjabi Weddings, was published by Arc.

MICHAEL McCARTHY lives in Yorkshire. Birds’ Nests And Other Poems (bradshawbooks, 2003) won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, and Cold Hill Pond (Smith/Doorstep Books,2008) is his latest publication.

LUCIE McKEE won the 2004 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize, and her poems have appeared in many magazines including Agenda, the TLS and The Rialto. She lives in Vermont.

JOAN MARGARIT the Catalan poet and architect was born in 1938. Extracts from a conversation between Joan and Anna Crowe appeared in The Rialto No. 61. These two poems are from Casa de Misericòrdia, Proa 2007.

LORRAINE MARINER’s first full collection Furniture will be published by Picador this spring. Her Bridge Pamphlet, Bye For Now, is still available. She works as a librarian.

JOHN MOLE was born in 1941: currently the Poetry Society’s Poet in Residence to the City of London, he also plays jazz clarinet rather well. Among the seven collections published by Peterloo there’s a New and Selected.

LES MURRAY writes that although there was no national celebration of his 70th birthday there was an event at his local library. The Calvin poem came about after he visited Geneva on a recent European tour.

PETER OSWALD lives in Devon and is perhaps better known as a playwright whose work has been produced at The National, The Globe, The Almeida, BAC etc. His version of Schiller’s Mary Stuart is touring to Sydney and New York.

WILLIAM PALMER’s novel The India House (Cape, 2006) is the sixth one he’s had published. His second collection of poems An Instruction From Madame S. is due from Rack Press in 2009.

D A PRINCE lives in Leicestershire. Her first full length collection, Nearly The Happy Hour, was published by Happenstance in May 2008.

SAM RIVIERE recently had to turn down the Bridport Prize because the chosen poem had already come second in the Poetry London competition. He is based in Norfolk.

TONY ROBERTS has published two poetry collections Flowers of the Hudson Bay (Peterloo) and Sitters (Arc). His poems and reviews have appeared widely in the literary press.

SIMON ROYALL was born in Lincoln but grew up in Nottinghamshire. He is a graduate of the Cultural Studies degree course at the Norwich School of Art and Design, and is currently living in Gloucester.

CATHERINE SADLER lives in the north west of England. She’s recently completed an MA in CreativeWriting at Manchester Metropolitan University and is working on a first collection.

COLETTE SENSIER is currently an English student at Cambridge University. She’s won awards from Foyle’s Young Poets, Tower Poetry and Peterloo Poets.

PEDRO SERRANO lives in Mexico. These two poems first appeared in Desplazamientos, Editorial Candaya, Barcelona, 2006.

ROSIE SHEPPERD is, after fifteen years in the financial markets, half way through an MPhil at Glamorgan University. She won aWriters’ Inc Bursary in 2007 and was a finalist in the 2008 Manchester Poetry Prize.

CATHERINE SMITH’s most recent collection Lip was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2008. Her publishers, Smith/Doorstop, speak of her ‘fierce, often frantic eroticism’.

ELIZABETH SMITHER lives in New Zealand and has published thirteen collections of poetry. In 2002 she was nominated Te Mata Poet Laureate. She works as a librarian.

GEORGE SZIRTES lives and works in Norfolk but increasing fame means that he may be found at anytime reading in a town or country near you. His New And Collected Poems has just appeared from Bloodaxe, who have also published a study of George’s work, Reading George Szirtes by John Sears.

JULIAN STANNARD is the author of Rina’sWar (2001) and The Red Zone (2007), both from Peterloo. He was recently awarded a Bogliasco Writing Fellowship in Italy and currently teaches at the University ofWinchester.

MARTINA THOMSON is a potter and lives and works in Camden Town in London. Her pamphlet Ferryboats was published by Hearing Eye last year.

EDWARD VANDERPUMP lives in Norwich and has had poems in magazines including Smiths Knoll and The Rialto. A former TEFL worker he is now at the History of Advertising Archive near Loddon, Norfolk.

NICOLA WARWICK was born in Kent and grew up in Suffolk where she still lives. She’s had poems in various magazines and has been commended in competitions. This is her second appearance in The Rialto.

EMILY WILLS is a Gloucestershire GP. The Rialto published her first collection, Diverting The Sea in 2000 and her second collection, Developing The Negative in 2008.

MARGARET WILMOT was born in California, but ‘has lived in Sussex for many (many) years’. She is at present interested in ‘the connections based on memory, places and their geography, painting, science...life.’