Poetry Magazines - The best collection of poetry magazines online - Simon Armitage

Stephanie Allen-Early was brought up in Dublin, then worked as a nurse. After studying at Essex University she became Monitoring Officer for UNICEF in former Yugoslavia where she had direct experience of ethnic conflict. This experience forms the basis of a memoir currently being completed - The Forty Children of Vukovar. She is the author of an M. Phil study of Women's Health in Brazil.

Julia Bohanna is a published freelance writer who lives in Berkshire. She has won and has been placed in several short story competitions.

David Ball lives in Besançon. His poems have recently appeared in England in Ambit, Orbis, Poetry Nottingham and Magma.

David Broadbridge is a Tutor at Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent.

Maggie Butt is head of Media and Communication at Middlesex University where she has taught Creative Writing since 1990. She is widely published in magazines and literary journals. Her collection of poems, Lipstick was published last year.

Rhonda Carrier studied French language, literature and culture at the universities of Cambridge and the Sorbonne, Paris. She spent 10 years working in London as a writer and editor for guides and listings magazines, as well as producing award winning short fiction. She now divides her time between France and Manchester.

Patrick Deeley is the principal of a large primary school in Dublin. He has had 4 collections of poems published by Dedalus Press, and 4 works of fiction for younger readers from O'Brien Press. His fifth poetry collection is due from Dedalus this Spring.

Barbara Dordi has been published in magazines, anthologies and on the Internet. Her most recent collection of poems, Entre-Deux is written in English and translated into French. She founded Equinox - A Poetry Journal - in 1990 and has edited the magazine since its inception. (www.poetrymagazines.org).

Russi Dordi is a prize-winning painter and sculptor who works in a variety of media. He exhibits regularly in the UK and in France. He illustrates novels and poetry and is the designer and illustrator of Equinox - A Poetry Journal.

Ann Drysdale has been a visiting lecturer at Cardiff University and UWE Bristol. She is the author of four poetry collections published by Peterloo, her most recent, Between Dryden and Duffy: Another Collection was launched in autumn 2005. Her acclaimed book of prose and poetry Three-three, two-two, five-six was published by Cinnamon Press in 2007.

Fiona Dunscomb has an MA in contemporary literature in English and is a member of Lumineuse, a group of women writers, writing in English and living in France. She writes articles, poetry, short stories and radio plays and in 2007 she won The Dundee International Book Prize for her first novel The Triple Point of Water (Polygon).

Patrick Early recently retired from the British Council having worked in Latin America, the Arab world and the Balkans. He has published poems in Irish, English and Brazilian journals, including Goldfish (2005), the anthology of the School of Creative Writing at Goldsmith's, London and more recently in the Enitharmon Poetry School Anthology I am Twenty People (2007). Patrick and Stephanie divide their time between London and their prebytère in Seignalens, Aude.

Barry Elphick studied at Kingston School of Art before beginning a career in graphic design when he had his own studio in Covent Garden, London. He set up a business creating educational works for children and greetings cards. His work has been shown in the Design Centre, London, the NEC Birmingham and at exhibition centres in New York and Frankfurt.

Kevin Hanson was born in Yorkshire but grew up in the south of England. He completed an Open University MA in 18th century literature before leaving London for Yorkshire four years ago.

Min Lee left reference publishing in Edinburgh to live in the Gers. She is co-author of Tsunami!, a non-fiction work now in its second edition, that she started whilst living in Hawaii. Her biographical and historical articles have appeared in many reference works. A member of the writing group Lumineuse, she is inspired by her journeys and her country surroundings to write travel pieces and short stories.

Lynne Mitchell was educated at St. Anne's School, Windermere where she developed her interest in painting and drawing, exhibiting in London at the Children's Royal Academy. She studied watercolour painting under the artist and illustrator Ben Manchipp in Reigate, Surrey where she exhibited her work every year. She now lives in the Aude where she produces watercolours inspired by this beautiful region of rural France. (www.Lynnemitchell.co.uk)

Daniela I. Norris was born in Bucharest but has lived and worked in Canada, Kenya, Israel, Angola, Peru and France. She is an ex-diplomat, ex-editor and now a writer and an adviser to one of the permanent missions to the United Nations in Geneva. Her short stories and articles have been published in magazines and anthologies and she is currently working on a series of political thrillers set at the United Nations.

William Oxley co-edited the anthology Modern Poets of Europe. In 2004, Hearing Eye published Namaste his Nepal poems, and Bluechrome published his London Visions. A study of his poetry,The Romantic Imagination, came out in 2005 from Poetry Salzburg. A limited edition of his Poems Antibes, illustrated by Frances Wilson was launched in Antibes in December 2006.

W. H. Petty has been widely published in magazines and has been successful in a number of national competitions. His last collection, in 2006, was Hijacked over China with Jane Austen (Redbeck Press).

Claudie Rolland is a prize-winning poet and author of the illustrated Si Alaigne m'était conté, a comprehensive history of Alaigne, one of the ancient circulades - villages of the bas Razès in the south of France which evolved in the 12th century, surrounding the castle of the seigneur.

Jacqueline Saphra is an award-winning poet, playwright and screenwriter. Her poetry has been published in magazines including Acumen, Staple, Magma and Equinox, and in the anthologies Lines in the Sand and Images of Women. She won first prize in the London Art Poetry competition judged by Andrew Motion. She is currently poet in residence at Good Housekeeping online and one half of the poetry duo ‘The Disparate Housewives’. Her pamphlet will shortly be published by Flarestack.

Carole Satyamurti has published five collections of poetry, two of which were Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Her most recent book is Stitching the Dark: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2005).

Helen Street gave up the idea of a career early on in life, and has meandered through a jumble of interesting jobs including working on adventure playgrounds, teaching English as a foreign language, making costumes in the theatre and touring Europe with an Instant Theatre group. Writing and directing are some of her favourite pastimes along with acting when she gets the chance. In 2005, she set up Lumineuse, a group for English women writers living in France. She lives alone in a small place in the middle of rural France where she is writing a novel and trying to keep the grass from the door.

Marjorie Sweetko’s poetry is published in various British magazines, including Orbis, Envoi, Chimera, Equinox and London Magazine. She lives in Marseille, where she teaches English language at the University.

Gregory Warren Wilson's third collection, Jeopardy, was published by Enitharmon in 2003. As a classical violinist he performs internationally. He divides his time between London and Venice.

Christine West lives in a pottery village in the Cher where she works on her poetry and short stories and a first novel. The published story of her husband's childhood in Wales, Days at Cnewr, contains some poems; others have appeared in poetry reviews and in an anthology. She has translated a long and fascinating memoir - An Odd Mother - for a French Resistance fighter which will be published in 2008. Christine is a member of Lumineuse, a group of female writers living in France.