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James Campbell’s books include Taking at the Gates: A life of James Baldwin (1991) and Paris Interzone (1994). A collection of essays, Syncopations, was published by University of California Press in 2008.

James Fenton read English and then PPP at Magdalen before working as a literary and theatre critic. He was elected Oxford Professor of Poetry in 1994 and received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2007. His Selected Poems are published by Penguin.

Mark Ford is a Professor in the English Department at University College London. His publications include two volumes of poetry, Landlocked (1992) and Soft Sift (2001), a collection of essays, A Driftwood Altar (2005), and a critical biography of the French poet, playwright, and novelist Raymond Roussel.

John Fuller’s Collected Poems were published in 1996, and his Stones and Fires won the Forward Prize in 1997. The latest two of the six volumes of poetry written since then will appear in Spring 2010: Writing the Picture (with photographs by David Hurn) from Seren Books, and Pebble & I from Chatto and Windus. His new pamphlet, The Shell Hymn Book is now available from the Shoestring Press. He was Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1966 to 2002.

Alan Hollinghurst is a novelist and lapsed poet. He was a Junior College Lecturer at Magdalen in 1978 when he first met Mick Imlah, and later in a long friendship they occupied adjacent desks at the TLS, where Mick took over from him as Poetry Editor in 1995.

Alan Jenkins’ last collection, A Shorter Life, was published in 2005. The Lost World, seven poems, will be published by the Clutag Press in January.

Glyn Maxwell’s latest collection, Hide Now, was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot and the Forward Prizes. His Selected Poems is forthcoming next year. Blind Eye Crying—his new version of The Women of Troy—will be staged at the Oxford Playhouse next autumn, and The Lion's Face, an opera by Elena Langer for which he wrote the libretto, premieres at the Brighton Festival in the spring of 2010.

Andrew McNeillie read English at Magdalen. His Clutag Press published Mick Imlah’s pamphlet Diehard in 2006. He has a new book of poems, In Mortal Memory, due out in February 2010.

Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999-2009. His most recent collection is The Cinder Path (Faber, 2009).

David Norbrook, now Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford, was a tutor in English at Magdalen 1978-98.

Bernard O’Donoghue was born in County Cork. He has lived in Oxford since 1965, and he is now an English Fellow of Wadham College. For many years he was a lecturer in Medieval English at Magdalen where he taught Mick Imlah and worked with him. His first published poems were a pamphlet, Razorblades and Pencils (Sycamore Press 1984), and Faber published his Selected Poems in 2008.

Jan Piggott read English at Magdalen, and wrote a Ph. D. dissertation on Yeats at the University of California. He lectured at the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, and was Head of English at Dulwich College. He has published work on Turner, the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, Shackleton, Wodehouse's school stories, and a history of Dulwich College (2008).

Peter Porter, an Australian of half-Scottish origin (as his poem for Mick Imlah reveals), has lived mostly in Britain. His Collected Poems was issued in and after 1999. He knew Mick from Imlah’s days in Oxford, and was a colleague at the TLS, and in various literary contexts, including two Spanish Tertulias.

Carol Rumens’ most recent collection of poems, Blind Spots, was published by Seren in 2008. De Chirico’s Threads is forthcoming in 2010.

Tracey Warr is Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory at Oxford Brookes University. She is the editor of The Artist’s Body (Phaidon, 2000). Her current curatorial project is Outlandia, international artists’ residencies in a treehouse in the Scottish Highlands.