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David Ball lives principally in Besançon but otherwise in Montmirey-le-Château near Dole. The poem in this edition contains faint echoes of sonnets 55 and 144 by Shakespeare, whose work is as always a source of inspiration, but now too, in France, a bridge between the two languages, French and English.

Matthieu Baumier is a French writer who has published novels and essays. His poetry has appeared in many French reviews and magazines. He is chief editor of Recours au Poème - an international review of poetry online: www.recoursaupoem.com

Martin Bennett lives in Rome where he teaches and proofreads at the University of Tor Vergata. He was second placed in last year's Stephen Spender/ The Times translation competition. A recent short collection – Unlike the Jungle Pheasant – was published by Red Squirrel Press.

Margaret Beston’s work has appeared in a variety of magazines and anthologies. Recently her poems have appeared in the Tate Gallery pamphlet with Pascale Petit and ‘Not only the Dark’ published by WordAid.

Rachelle Bijou is a native New Yorker who lived and worked in Paris for several years.  Her work has appeared in various journals including Literary Matters, Evergreen Review, and Literary Imagination. Her new collection is entitled, The Office Minstrel: Poems, New York & Paris, 1970’s to 2010.

Alan Blackwood is the author of numerous books on music, including a biography of the famous British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. He also has a strong French connection through his home in the Ardèche department. His love for that region of France has inspired several of his short stories.

June Blumenson is a finalist for the 2012 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry and will be published in Nimrod International Journal in October 2012. Her work appears in Boston Literary Magazine, Adanna Literary Journal and Minnesota Women‘s Press.

Helen Burks writes plays, short stories, comedy sketches and does painting and visual  art. Her work has been published and distributed in America by www.Origamipoems.com who are based on Rhode Island – she has 5 booklets of poems with them. She has read with the ex-Poet Laureate Andrew Motion and reads at many National Literature and Music Festivals in the U.K. She performed her own one woman show at Edinburgh Fringe Festival and last year performed in Paris, at a Cabaret Event of poets. Publications include The Book of Beyond ; Helen Burke  “Poems”; Island of Dreams (a book of Greek inspired poems); and last year, The Ruby Slippers with Valley Press in London.

Eddie Castellan is a writer and musician, based near Carcassonne, southwest France since 2002. A former daily newspaper sub-editor, his work includes poetry and song writing. He was recording engineer on Stanley Adler’s electric cello album Arias Under Curves, released in May 2009.

Hilda Cochrane was brought up in Shirley, near Croydon, worked in London for a short spell as a private secretary before travelling overseas with her first husband and after 20 year to various countries with her present husband, after which she wrote a biography about her life overseas. In 1985 she gained a B. A. in English Literature with the Open University. In 2003 she moved to France, settling near Prades in the Pyrénées Orientales. She has had articles printed in her local paper in England and in The Cat World. She also writes short stories and poetry.

Violet Dench’s work has appeared in Australian literary and small magazines including Mattoid, Redoubt, LiNQ, Poetrix, New England Review, SideWaLK, Poetry Monash, also anthologies, and it has been read on radio ABC and 5UV. She returned to the UK recently and recommenced writing; she has been published in SOUTH poetry magazine.

Barbara Dordi edits two literary journals. Her poetry has appeared in a variety of magazines, anthologies and newspapers. Her latest collection Moving Still was published by Cinnamon Press in 2009.

Russi Dordi, painter and sculptor, has exhibited worldwide. He has illustrated Equinox - a poetry journal since its inception and has designed book covers and has illustrated fiction and non-fiction for over 20 years.

Rachel Elliott is a writer and psychotherapist, living in Bath, England. She has written for a variety of magazines, was a finalist in the 2010 Dundee International Book Prize, and shortlisted for the 2011 Mslexia Novel Competition.

Kerry Featherstone is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Loughborough University.  Having lived and worked in France, he is interested in French language and culture, and is currently writing a series of poems which combine English and French.  He has translated Ingrid Thobois’ ‘Le Roi d’Afghanistan ne nous a pas mariés’, and is working on his own novel set in the Vendée.

Rachel J Fenton is a writer and artist currently living in Auckland. She was longlisted for the “Sean O’ Faolain Short Story Prize” and “Kathleen Grattan Award”, and shortlisted for the “Fish One Page Prize”, “Binnacle Ultra Short Competition”, and “AUT Creative Writing Award”. She blogs at http://snowlikethought.blogspot.com and has published an epic graphic poem ostensibly about migration and stuttering at http://escapebehaviours.blogspot.com

Reza Ghahremanzadeh is twenty-two years old. Last year he graduated from Queen’s University Belfast with a degree in English. He wishes to publish a volume of poetry someday. His favourite writers include Maya Angelou, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Germaine Greer.

Sheila Hillier lives for part of the year near the village of Goult in the Luberon, Provence. A first collection of her poetry ‘A Quechua Confession Manual’ was published by Cinnamon Press in 2010 and shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Jerwood First Collection prize in 2010. Her poetry has been featured on BBC R4’s Poetry Please in 2012. She is Professor Emeritus of medical sociology at Barts & the London School of Medicine.

Jenny Hockey is a member of both Broomspring Writers and Tuesday Poets in Sheffield, UK. She recently retired from academic life to devote more time to writing poetry. The themes of home, memory and loss tend to recur in her work, with cycling (often in France) providing another useful starting point.

Antony Johae lives in Lebanon. “Aubade” is dedicated to his wife, who is Lebanese. The poem comes from a collection in progress: After-Images: For Eric Rohmer.

Christine Koutelieri has spent her career in teaching and in the 1980s came to work in Oxford in Adult Education. She has an M.A in English from Oxford Brookes Universty. Her work is published in Smiths Knoll, Envoi, The Interpreter's House, Equinox and Stand. She has a French connection which often crops up in her poetry.

Thelma Laycock has had work translated into Hebrew, Italian and Romanian and has been broadcast on Radio Romania Cultural. Her collection, A Persistence of Colour is published by Indigo Dreams Publishing.

Arika Lloyd is a poet and classical pianist living in Vancouver, Canada. Her work has been influenced by her travels and studies in Paris and the south of France.

Helene Marks describes herself as ‘an archetypal autodidact. ‘She is an artist in the broadest sense, having designed book covers, painted portraits, organised exhibitions, curated exhibitions, been an interior designer. She has worked with Sir Normal Foster, Lilian and Victor Hochhauser, and was in the very first ‘Room for change’ programme on BBC TV and included in the publication ‘The Best of British Women’ in 1993. She was included in the Andrew Martin publication ‘The 20 Best Designers in Britain’. She lived in France for 15 years before returning to England where she started writing poetry seriously. She has had work published in Mslexia and European Judaism edited by Ruth Fainlight. Her work has been translated into Japanese and French.

Pauline Matarasso is a writer and translator who gained her doctorate from the Sorbonne in 1958. She has translated medieval texts for Penguin Classics and is currently preparing a translation of work by Christian Bobin. She has lived in the Morvan and still has family connections there. A collection of poems under the title The Price of Admission was published by Broughton House Books in 2005.

Edmund Prestwich grew up in South Africa but finished his education in England and has spent his working life as a teacher in Manchester. He has published poems widely in magazines and has published two collections, Through the Window (Rockingham Press, 1997) and Their Mountain Mother (Hearing Eye Press, 2009).

Chat Robinson trained as a fine artist and worked in visual art since 1981. ‘Visual work and poetry sometimes overlap when one doesn’t quite manage to do what I want it to do’. Since 2009 he has lived in the Aude, SW France where he exhibits his work regularly.

Elizabeth Smither has published 17 collections of poetry as well as novels and short stories. She was New Zealand poet laureate (2001-3) and received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2008. She has just completed a new collection of poetry, 'The Blue Coat' which will be published by Auckland University Press in 2013.

Marcus Smith has published in Stand, PN Review, Acumen, Weyfarers, Orbis, Staple,The Dark Horse, Envoi, Iota and Ambit. Prizes and commendations include Bridgeport Prize, Plough Prize, Poetry on the Lake Prize, Southern Poetry Review Prize andPushcart. His work has appeared overseas. He reviews for Envoi, Staple Dark Horseand PN Review.

Derek Summers was educated in Kilburn, Nottingham and Montpelier. He studied English Literature, French and Philosophy and taught in Nottingham, Bedford and Luton. Derek is the editor of an anthology produced with Michael Foot, the late Labour politician: The Foots and the Poets, Poetry and a Political Family (Jarndyce, 2010). His poems have been published in several small magazines. He spends part of each year in Bricquebec, Manche and is fascinated by the similarities and differences between the English and French languages and cultures.

Ben Wilkinson was born in Stafford in 1985. A pamphlet of poems, The Sparks, was published as part of Tall Lighthouse’s Pilot series in 2008. He reviews new poetry for The Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement, and he is working towards a first full collection of poems. He lives in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

Stephen Wilson is a psychiatrist turned poet and literary critic. His first collection, Fluttering Hands was published in 2008. He is also the author of Isaac Rosenberg, The Bloomsbury Book of the Mind, Introducing the Freud Wars, Sigmund Freud (A Pocket Biography), The Cradle of Violence: Essays on Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Literature and a major unpublished study of modern Anglo-Jewish poetry, Poetics of the Diaspora. In 2010 he was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship to work on a second collection of poems. He is a trustee of the Poetry Society.

Michael Wooff studied French to degree level at the University of Reading, Berkshire, and spent a year in Lyon from September 1969 to August 1970. From 1994-1995 he did a master's degree in Translating and Interpreting at Salford University. He spent nine months translating a history of European Literature from French to English which was published in April 2000 by Routledge. From 2000 onwards he has worked on translations from French and from German to English.