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Jean Smith is the singer in the loud guitar and voice duo Mecca Normal, and a founder member of the Black Wedge, a collective of poets and musicians who present a show challenging the accepted norms of contemporary society. She lives in Vancouver, when not on tour.

Steve Wey was born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire in 1961. He came to study at Huddersfield Polytechnic in the early 80’s and has stayed ever since, painting, and working in factories, on archaeological digs, and as an art therapist.

Anna Fissler has recently gained a degree in English from Bretton Hall College, which has led to her teaching writing workshops at Wakefield Prison. She travelled extensively in Europe and North America before making her home in Yorkshire some years ago. She lives with her two daughters on the outskirts of Huddersfield.

Milner Place was born in 1930 and has wandered about a bit since. His first poems were published in 1977 in Spanish. His more recent poems in English (some of them in this selection) have appeared in The Confusion Of Anglers (Wide Skirt Press).

Georgina Fissler is at present studying at Kirkburton Middle School near Huddersfield. She plays violin and recorder, and intends to become a violinist, singer and poet, as well as a gymnast, if there’s time.

Fiona White was born in Huddersfield in 1970 and is at present training to become a nurse at Jimmy’s in Leeds. She detests male chauvinists, but enjoys meatless food.

Katy Gray is not joking.

Peter Plate lives in San Francisco, where he came to writing after work as a tenants’ union organiser and in secondary education for native Americans. San Bernadino is available on record or tape, along with the work of other poets and of musicians from California, from Kommotion International, P.O. Box 41052, San Francisco, California 94141-0502, USA.

John Lancaster lives in Huddersfield. His first collection, Effects Of War, was published by Giant Steps Press in 1986.

Janice Johnson Bumphrey comes from Newcastle. She now lives in Huddersfield.

Philip Hesse was born in Bradford and still lives there after 33 years. He was inspired to write “seriously” by Poetry Live in 1987. He works in a snack bar at a centre for the unwaged in Shipley, if they haven’t closed it down yet. He’s married, with two children.

Martin Murphy was born around 11 .3Opm on June 18th, 1962 and has since lived in Huddersfield, though he has visited New York City for a day. He is at present gainfully employed putting ink on paper and throwing the paper on the floor.

Judith Selkirk comes from South Yorkshire, and has been writing since she was 14 (28 years?). She is based in Bradford where she works as a teacher of the Deaf.

Tessa Gordziejko has had work published in the Brixton and Surrey Festival Anthologies and in Lambeth Arts Magazine. She has recently moved to Yorkshire after living in London for ten years, and has just finished a play about Maud Gonne and W.B. Yeats.

Jeanette Hattersley was born in 1956 in Sheffield, and moved to Huddersfield in 1988. She hates moths, listens to jazz, keeps a cat called Cat, and loves the work of Sylvia Plath.

Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco, but now lives in New York City, where she teaches poetry workshops at New York and Columbia Universities and at Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island. Her work has received numerous awards in the USA, so something must be working there.

Duncan Bush was born in Cardiff in 1946, and lives now with his wife and two sons at St. Donat’s on the South Glamorgan coast. Two of his collections of poetry, Aquarium (1983) and Salt (1985), were awarded the Welsh Arts Council Poetry Prize. His latest collection, The Genre Of Silence, is available from Poetry Wales Press.