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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.

John Allison (Lyttelton, New Zealand) has had poems published in  numerous journals world-wide. His third collection, Stone Moon Dark Water (Sudden Valley Press), was published in 1999.

Cliff Ashcroft (Letchworth) was included in the 1994 Carcanet  anthology New Poetries. His first collection, Faithful (1996), also  appeared under the Carcanet imprint.

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 four verse collections, including Altered States (Jackson's Arm, 1996).

Ros Barber (Brighton) has twice been a prize-winner in the National  Poetry competition. Her work has been published in Poetry Review, Stand, London Magazine, The North and The Rialto, and anthologised by both Faber and Virago. She was nominated for the Geoffrey Dearmer (New Poet of The Year) Award in 1999.

Chris Beckett (London) is a former Tabla competition prize-winner and has published poems in several other magazines, including Smiths Knoll and Tears in the Fence.

Wayne Burrows (London) has a first collection, Marginalia, due from  Peterloo this year. 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.

Peter Carpenter (Tonbridge) has published his most recent work in  PN Review, Agenda, English, The Rialto and London Magazine. He is literary executor to the estate of William Hayward (1931-68) and is looking for a publisher for his own first full collection.

Ian Caws (West Sussex) has published eight collections of poetry, including The Ragman Totts (Redcliffe Press, 1990) - a PBS Recommendation - and Herrick's Women (University of Salzburg Press, 1996).

Paul F. Cowlan (Frankfurt am Main) is an 'acoustic rock' performer/songwriter, with six albums of self-penned material. He was winner of the 1998 Tabla competition and a runner-up in the 1998 Stand poetry competition.

Martyn Crucefix (London) won a Gregory award in 1984, a Hawthornden Fellowship in 1991, and second prize in the 1991
Observer/Arvon competition. His collections include Beneath Tremendous Rain (Enitharmon, 1990), At The Mountjoy Hotel (Enitharmon, 1993), On Whistler Mountain (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994) and A Madder Ghost (Enitharmon, 1997).

Rose Flint (Bath) is an artist, poet, creative writing tutor and Art Therapist. She has recently completed a six month 'Poetry Place' as
a Poet for Health in a doctor's surgery. Her collection Blue Horse of Morning (1991) is available from Seren.

Judy Gahagan (London) is a freelance writer and translator and has published prose and poetry, including a recent verse collection, Crossing The No-Man's Land (Flambard, 1999). She is currently running a course in archetypal psychology and poetry with the Poetry School in London.

Louise Glück (Cambridge, MA) is a former Pulitzer prize-winner. Carcanet have published The Wild Iris (1996), The First Five Books of Poems (1997), Meadowlands (1998), Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1999) and Vita Nova (2000).

David Gravender (Seattle) currently works as a psychometrist and proofreader, and is looking for a publisher for his first collection. A prizewinner in the 1999 Tabla Poetry Competition, his work has also appeared in such journals as The Fiddlehead and Agenda.

Philip Gross (Bristol) teaches on the Creative Studies programme at  Bath Spa University College. The Wasting Game (Bloodaxe, 1998) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. He also writes poetry and novels for young people, most recently Facetaker (Scholastic, 1999).

Kerry Hardie (Kilkenny) won the 1996 Irish National Poetry
Competition and the 1997 Phras Competition. A Furious Place, her first collection, is available from the Gallery Press, as is her second, Cry for the Hot Belly. A debut novel, Hannie Bennet's Winter Marriage is  new from HarperCollins.

Allison Eir Jenks (Houston) teaches at Lamar University in Texas.  A first collection, The Palace of Bones, is forthcoming from Salmon.  Her poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The American Literary Review and Salmagundi. Recent prizes include first place in the long poem section of the Scottish International Poetry Competition.

Andrew Johnston (Paris) works for the International Herald Tribune.  He has published three collections in New Zealand: How to Talk (1993), The Sounds (1996) and Birds of Europe (2000) with Victoria University Press. The Open Window: New and Selected Poems (1999) is available in the UK from Arc.

John Kinsella (Cambridge, UK) is co-editor of Stand magazine and editor of the anthology Landbridge: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Arc, 1999). Recent volumes of verse include The Hunt (1998), Poems 1980-1994 (1998) and Vistitants (1999), all from Bloodaxe. He is a fellow of  Churchill College, Cambridge.

W. S. Merwin (Haiku, Hawaii), poet, translator, essayist and environmentalist, has been the recipient of numerous distinguished awards, including the Bollingen and Pulitzer Prizes. He was named Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress in 1999, along with Rita Dove and Louise Glück. Recent collections include The Folding Cliffs (1998), The River Sound (1999) and a new version of Dante's Purgatorio (2000), all published in the States by Knopf.

Art Murphy (Newry, Co. Down) has published his work in Poetry Ireland Review, Chapman, New Welsh Review, Envoi, Orbis and Magma.

Andrew Neilson (London) works as a Whitehall Press Officer and writes poetry and reviews. He received a Commendation in the 1999 National Poetry Competition.

James Norcliffe (Christchurch, New Zealand) is currently the Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago (Dunedin, NZ). He
has published three collections of poetry, the most recent of which
is A Kind of Kingdom (Victoria University Press, 1998). His work has appeared in the UK in The Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English and in Stand, The Rialto and London Magazine.

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).

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

Mark Roper (Co. Kilkenny) was editor of Poetry Ireland Review for 1999. His collections include The Hen Ark (Peterloo, 1990), Catching the Light (Peterloo, 1998), and a chapbook, The Home Fire (Abbey, 1998).

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

Robert Seatter (London) has been a prize-winner twice in the National Poetry Competition and four times in Tabla's own contest.
He won first prize in this year's Poetry London competition. His work has appeared in Ambit, Blade, Envoi, Poetry Wales, Smith's Knoll and Staple, and on London buses. He works at the BBC.

Henry Shukman (Warwickshire) is a travel writer and musician. A recent winner of the TLS poetry prize and of an Arts Council Writers Award, he has published poems in London Magazine, Stand and The Iowa Review.  His fiction has appeared in The Hudson Review, The Missouri Review, and O. Henry Prize Stories 1999.

John Stammers (London) was a prize-winner in the 1999 Blue Nose awards. His first collection, Panoramic Lounge-Bar, is due to be published by Picador in autumn 2000.

Anne Stevenson (Durham) is the author of Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath (1989), Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop (1998) and Between the Iceberg and the Ship: Selected Essays (1998). Her latest verse publications, Granny Scarecrow and the reissued Collected Poems 1955-1995, are both new from Bloodaxe Books.

Howard Wright (Belfast) lectures in Art History at the University of Ulster at Belfast. His poems have appeared in Stand, The Irish University Review and Writing Ulster. A pamphlet collection, Usquebaugh, was published by the Redbeck Press in 1997.