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IAN ANDREWS (UK) Has had lots of poems published in (amongst others) Envoi, Iota, Electric Acorn, Aaybye’s Baby, First Time, Pennine Ink, The Affectionate Punch and One World.

ROSELLE ANGWIN and RUPERT LOYDELL (UK) Are both well published poets. These joint pieces come from a sequence (a further piece is due in the next issue).

CHRISTOPHER BARNES (UK) Is a well published poet.

PADDY BUSHE (IR): Is Dublin born and now lives in Waterville, County Kerry. His latest book Hopkins on Skellig Michael (Dedalus, 2001) was one of the best poetry books I’ve read recently. Another collection To Make the Stone Sing was published by Sceiilg in 1996.

DERRICK BUTTRESS (UK) Has had plays on BBC TV and Radio 4. His poetry has been widely published and he is a retired teacher. His new collection is Spiking the Boss’s Gin (MoMentum 1998). He has a new collection forthcoming from Flarestack.

IAN CAWS (UK) Has published the collections The Ragman’s Women (UP of Salzburg) and The Ragman Totts, which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Dialogues in Mask was published by Pikestaff in 2001.

ROB COLES (UK) Is a Loughborough student (English & Drama) who won the 2001 Ernest Frost Prize and has been published in The Coffee House before.

MARY COOPER (UK): Is a Charnwood writer familiar to Coffee House readers. She takes part in many local literary events, including Poetry and Pints and has work forthcoming in an anthology on Derbyshire. She has also had her work commended in competitions.

SIMON DAVIES (UK): Visual artist and illustrator, whose work will feature in forthcoming issues of The Coffee House.

PETER DEVILLE (UK): Is from Loughborough. Poems in journals including The Coffee House, The Rialto, Seam, Chapman and Envoi.

DAN DUGGAN (UK) Has had work in Borderlines, Magma, Poetry Monthly, Still and Poetry Scotland. He is 26 years old and comes from an Anglo-Irish family. He has been an OU student, a researcher for a musical researcher and has laboured for local builders.

ANNE EGAN (IR) Poet & historian living in County Kildare, she has poems in many journals including Aabye, Breakfast All Day, Iota, Envoi, Fife Lines & Staple.

SIMON FLETCHER (UK) Is Writer in Residence for the Shropshire and Mid-Wales Hospice, Shrewsbury. His debut collection The Occasions of Love (Pennine Pens, 1994) was called fluent by Ted Hughes. His second collection Email from the Provinces has just appeared.

NEIL FULWOOD (UK) Is a Nottingham poet who is widely published.

DAVID GRIFFITHS (UK) Is a retired farmer living in Long Whatton. Won a prize in the Bluenose Poets Competition, widely published and has verses and columns in agricultural journals.

THOMAS HALL (UK) Writes poems for anthologies of Christian poetry, as well as having other work in journals including First Time, Iota, Fire and Dandelion.

WILLIAM HEYEN (US): Is an award-winning poet, anthologist and essayist. Volumes include The Chestnut Rain (Ballantine, 1986); Crazy Horse in Stillness (BOA, 1996) and Diana, Charles and the Queen (BOA, 1998).

KEVIN HIGGINS (IR) Is a widely published poet.

DAVID HILL (Hungary) Is a widely published poet, wonderful translator of Pushkin, Russian, German, Hungarian and Roumanian poetry and editor of the pamphlet Lyriklife. His recent collection is Bald Ambition (2000)

PATRICK JAMES (IR) Is a Dublin Poet, published in The Bridge, Anarchist Angel, Green Dragon, First Time, Dandelion and Moonstone. He took second place in the National Library of Poetry competition in 1999.

AILEEN KELLY (Australia) Grew up in England and now lives in Victoria. Her collection Coming Up For Light (Pariah Press) won the Mary Gilmore award and a Best First Book of Poetry Award from the Association for the Study of Australian Poetry. A new collection is imminent.

PAUL LEE (UK) Began writing poetry some six years ago, to his amazement. He’s stopped questioning why, in case it goes away. He’s married to Emma, which is even more amazing. She’s a poet too.

KEITH LOBBAN (UK) Retired in 1996 after thirty years as a police officer. Has published many short fictions and poems in Scottish Memories, The Countryman, Staple, Lexicon, Iota, Cutting Teeth, Purple Patch and writes a column in a local magazine, The Leopard.

NIALL MCGRATH (Northern IR) Has had poems in Pennine Platform, Acumen, HU, Books Ireland, and Pearl (US). He has had three selections published.

MICHAEL MALONE (UK) Is a well published poet living in Ayrshire. He has had work in Poetry Scotland, Poetry Nottingham International, Eclipse and elsewhere. Some of his poems were included in the Margaret Thomson Davies novel The Clydesiders.

DIVYA MATHUR (UK / India) Works for the Nehru Centre at the Indian High Commission in London. Regularly performs her multi-language work and has had much of her elegant poetry published.

STEPHEN C. MIDDLETON (IR) Published A Brave Light (Stride) in 1997. He edits Ostinanto, a magazine of jazz and jazz related poetry and regularly publishes and performs his work.

LIAM O’MEARA (IR) Founder of Syllables Writing Group, Chairman of the Inchicore Ledwidge Society. Editor of Francis Ledwidge: The Poems Complete. Collection: Burned All My Witches (2001), also wrote A Lantern On The Wave, a biography of Ledwidge. Won Italy’s Citta di Olbia in 2001.

KEVIN RYAN (UK) Is a community artist living and working in Charnwood. He is also Director of Charnwood Arts and Director of the World Haiku Club. He recently exhibited with Artspace. CHRIS SEWART (UK) Is a writer and poet who is a member of Leicester Writers’ Club. He has had poems and short stories in Smith’s Knoll, Raw Edge and The Magazine, amongst others. He combines writing with a love of toast!

GILLIAN SPRAGGS (UK) has recently published a book that is a literary history of highwaymen (Pimlico: 2001) and is also an anthologist, translator and poet.

GEOFF STEVENS (UK): Publishes widely in many journals and anthologies and edits the journal Purple Patch.

DEBORAH TYLER-BENNETT (UK): Poet, editor and short fiction writer living in Charnwood. Recently (2001) won the Hugh MacDiarmid Trophy at the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition. Has published over 150 poems and short fictions.

JOHN WEST (Australia) Lives in Melbourne with his wife and son. Many of the poems are about people he meets as a nurse, a job he’s had for over twenty years. A collection Stuttering Towards Love was published by the Walleah Press in 2000. In 1998 he won the Melbourne Poets Competition.

A.K. WHITEHEAD (UK) Is a well published poet whose collections include Times and Seasons (Grevatt and Grevatt, 2000), Discipleship (Plowman Publications, 1999), Another Counsellor (Feather Books, 1995) and Prophetic Verse (Emmaus Publications, 1993)

MERRYN WILLIAMS (UK) Edits The Interpreter’s House and the Wilfred Owen Newsletter. The Sun’s Yellow Eye, her first collection, won the Rosemary Arthur Award and her latest book is The Latin Master’s Story (Rockingham, 2000). She translated Lorca’s Selected Poems for Bloodaxe.