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Gary Allen was born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim. His poems have appeared in many magazines in Britain and Ireland.

John Arnold was born in London in 1951. He now lives in East Sussex with his wife and two daughters. Publications include The Amber Cup (Outposts, 1975), Ninepin (Evelyn Press, 1989) and Zarathustra Flies East (Evelyn Press, 1995).

Sebastian Barker was Chairman of the Poetry Society from 1988 to 1992, and is a Hawthornden Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Publications include Selected Poems (1992), The Dream of Intelligence (1992) and The Hand in the Well (Enitharmon, 1996).

D. M. Black’s Collected Poems 1964-87 were published by Polygon in 1991. Recently his translations of Goethe have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation and other magazines.

John Capp was born in Wiltshire, where he still lives and writes. His poems have appeared in many magazines.

Stephen Capus studied Russian as an undergraduate and went on to do research on the poetry of Marina Tsvetaeva. He currently works as an administrator at University College, London.

Neil Chilton is studying for an MA in Shakespeare and English Literature at the University of Bristol.

Antony Dunn was born in 1973. His first collection of poems, Pilots and Navigators, was published by OUP in 1998, and his second, Flying Fish, will be published by Carcanet. In 2000 he received an Eric Gregory Award. He lives in York, and is marketing manager for Riding Lights Theatre Company.

Jennie Feldman is a South African-born writer and poet, educated in England, now living in Israel. She is working on her first full collection of poems and has translated Jacques Rida and other French poets.

Michael Foley has published three collections of poetry, a collection of free translations of French poetry and three novels, most recently Getting Used To Not Being Remarkable (Blackstaff, 1998).

John Fuller’s Collected Poems appeared in 1996. He also writes novels, the latest being The Last Bid (1997). His Oxford Book of Sonnets will appear this year.

Philip Gross’s latest collection, The Wasting Game (Bloodaxe, 1998), was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize. Bloodaxe will publish a Selected Poems next year. He teaches on the Creative Studies programme at Bath Spa University College.

David Harsent’s last collection, A Bird’s Idea of Flight, was shortlisted for the Eliot prize. He is at work on Marriage, a sequence prompted by the relationship between Pierre Bonnard and Marthe de Meligny, and Lepus, from which the poem in this issue is taken.

Michael Hatwell used to teach Italian but is now retired. He lives in south-east London with his wife and two cats. His first collection, Words for the Wind, appeared from Envoi in 1993.

Diana Hendry’s first collection of poems was Making Blue (Peterloo). A collection for children, Strange Goings-on (Viking) followed. A third collection, Borderers, is to be published by Peterloo.

Paul Henry’s most recent collection is The Milk Thief (Seren). He works as a Careers Adviser in Cardiff and as a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan.

David Kennedy’s Smoking, Eating and Speaking with the Dead: some thoughts on the function of poetry costs £2.50 inc p+p and is available from the author at 29 Vickers Road, Firth Park, Sheffield S5 6UY.

Stephen Knight’s last collection of poems was Dream City Cinema. A novel, Mr Schnitzel, was recently published by Penguin.

Hugh Macpherson received the National Library of Scotland’s Robert Louis Stevenson Award in 1998, and was shortlisted for the Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 1999.

Peter McDonald is the Christopher Tower Student at Christ Church, Oxford. His study of Northern Irish poetry, Mistaken Identities, is now available in paperback from OUP.

Paul Muldoon is the Howard G.B. Clark Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. His latest collection is Hay (Faber, 1998).

Andrew Neilson was born in 1975. He works as a press officer in Whitehall. His poetry and reviews have started to appear in a number of places, including Verse.

Caitriona O’Reilly’s first collection The Nowhere Birds is due from Bloodaxe next year.

William Park received a major Eric Gregory Award in 1990. He is currently a student on the MA in Writing and Reading Poetry at Liverpool Hope University College.

Selwyn Pritchard left school at 16, The Royal Welch Fusiliers at 23, Oxford at 35, and the Orkney Isles for the Antipodes in 1980. His last collection was Stirring Stuff (Sinclair-Stevenson). Lunar Frost, translations from Tang and Song dynasty poets, is published in Sydney, and Pritchard’s Pomerania is due from The Cornford Press, Tasmania, next year.

Sheenagh Pugh’s last collection, Stonelight (Seren), was named Welsh Book of the Year 2000. Her next, The Beautiful Lie, will appear from Seren in 2001.

Peter Redgrove lives in Cornwall with his wife Penelope Shuttle. His Selected Poems (PBS Special Commendation) appeared from Cape in 1999, and he is currently working on a new volume titled From The Virgil Caverns. In 1996 he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

Floyd Skloot has two collections of poetry coming out next year: The Evening Light, from Story Line Press, and The Fiddler’s Trance, from Bucknell University Press. His poems have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, New Welsh Review, Cyphers and many other magazines. He lives in Amity, OR.

Julian Stannard has published in many magazines, and a selection of his work appears in First Pressings (Faber). He is the author of Fleur Adcock in Context (Mellen), and a book of poems is forthcoming from Peterloo Poets.

Anne Stevenson is an Anglo-American poet who lives with her historian husband in Durham and North Wales. She is known for her independent-minded writings on Sylvia Plath and Elizabeth Bishop. Her Collected Poems was published by OUP in 1996; and her latest collection, Granny Scarecrow (Bloodaxe), is reviewed in this issue.

Virgil Suarez was born in Havana in 1962. He is the author of four published novels, a collection of short stories, and four full-length collections of poetry. Next year Palm Crows, a new book of poems, will appear from the University of Arizona Press ‘Camino del Sol’ series.

Jenny Swann’s first poetry pamphlet, Flesh Tones, is due out from Redbeck Press later this year; and a second collection is forthcoming from Shoestring in 2001. Her poems and short stories have appeared in various journals and anthologies.

David Wheatley lectures at the University of Hull. His second collection, Misery Hill, is published by Gallery Press.

John Hartley Williams has published seven collections to date, the last being Canada from Bloodaxe. A book of translations from Marin Sorescu (together with Hilde Ottschofski) will appear this autumn: Censored Poems.

Howard Wright is lecturer in Art History at the University of Ulster at Belfast. He has poems currently in HU, The Stinging Fly, and Writing Ulster. His most recent reviews include one covering four new collections for Poetry Ireland Review 64 and, for Magma, Tom Paulin’s The Wind-Dog.

Dan Wyke’s work has appeared in a range of magazines and anthologies. He received an Eric Gregory Award last year. He lives in Brighton and works part-time as a Reminiscence Coordinator; the rest of his time is currently spent looking for a publisher to accept a manuscript for his first collection.