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GILLIAN ALLNUTT’s latest book is How the Bicycle Shone: New and Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2007). She lives in Co. Durham.

D.J. ANDREW lives in Leeds. He had work in Ambit and other magazines in the 60s. Retired from the Civil Service and did a philosophy degree. Lately a carer, he has had occasion to get his poetry in order: work recently in PN Review, Other Poetry, The SHop etc.

SHARON ASHTON was born and grew up in Birmingham. She studied Latin and Classical studies at Reading, trained as a hospital manager and then trained as a nurse at St Thomas’. She lives in Shropshire and works part-time as General Practice sister while she studies part-time for a degree in CreativeWriting at Birmingham. Poems in various magazines and anthologies including Raw Edge, The Cannon’s Mouth, The Interpreter’s House.

POLLY ATKIN was born in Nottingham, lived in East London for seven years and is now in Cumbria researching ‘the construction of meaning around place’ for an English and Sociology Ph.D at Lancaster under the AHRC’s Landscape and Environment scheme. Her poem ‘Seven Nights of Uncreation’ was commissioned by the Arts Council as part of a project on the Abolition of the Slave Trade. There’s a pamphlet, Bone Song, Aussteigger Press, 2008.

EMILY BERRY won an Eric Gregory Award in 2008. Her poetry has appeared in The Rialto, Ambit, Poetry Wales and Magma. She has a pamphlet forthcoming from Tall-Lighthouse.

SUE BOYLE has lived in London, Cambridge and Co. Durham, and is currently in Bath where she is a founder member of the Bath Poetry Café. Her poems have appeared in The Rialto, Acumen, Magma and The Interpreter’s House.

COLETTE BRYCE is an Irish poet, currently based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Her third collection, Self-Portrait in the Dark, is due from Picador in September.

MARIANNE BURTON’s pamphlet, The Devil’s Cut, (Smiths Knoll), was a Poetry Book Society 2007 pamphlet choice.

LINDA CHASE lectures on the Creative Writing MA at Manchester Metropolitan University and is a Tutor for the Manchester Poetry School. She has two collections from Carcanet, The Wedding Day (2001) and Extended Family (2006).

JENNIFER COMPTON the antipodean poet and playwright, was born and grew up in NZ but currently lives in NSW. A collection, Parker and Quink, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2005 and a further collection, Barefoot, is forthcoming.

ANNA DAVIS lives in East Lothian. Her poems and artwork have appeared in Northwords Now and she has published a collection called Wind Tied Door.

ROBERT ETTY lives in Lincolnshire. His latest collection, Half a Field’s Distance: New and Selected Poems was published by Shoestring Press in 2006.

MARTINA EVANS was born in Cork and grew up in Ireland, moving to London in 1988. She is the author of three novels and three books of poetry. Her fourth novel Petrol has just won the Kingston University Press writing competition and her fourth collection of poetry Facing the Public is due from Anvil Press in 2009.

KIT FAN was born in Hong Kong and now lives in the UK. His poems have appeared in magazines including Acumen, Envoi, Magma, Poetry Review and The Rialto.

REBECCA FARMER has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths and works as a freelance teacher of drama and creative writing. She lives in Kent.

ROSE FLINT teaches Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes at Bristol University and is Lead Writer for the Kingfisher Project, working in the hospital and community of Salisbury. Her fourth collection Mother of Pearl is due out from Avalon this summer. She won the first prizes in the 2008 Cardiff International Competition and in the 2007 Petra Kenney Competition.

NICOLE FORDHAM was born on the North Kent Downs, but is currently on an adventure in London where she lives with her husband and her newly born daughter. She is working on a first collection.

NIGEL FOXELL was born in London in 1931, 63 read English at Oxford under Nevill Coghill and taught English Literature at Tubingen University. He’s written five novels, one of which, The Marriage Seat, 1975, was a New Fiction Society Choice. Other writings include a book on John Donne and, most recently, 2007, Travels in the Two Sicilies 1817-20, a selection from Betsey Freemantle’s diaries. Poems in magazines and in a Hearing Eye anthology.

SYDNEY GIFFARD is attached to Wiltshire, where he lives. He is also fond of travel. His poems are published occasionally in literary magazines.

DAVID HARMER was born in 1952 and lives in Doncaster. He is a freelance writer, working in schools and other venues all over the country. His poems and stories appear in over 130 books for children. He also has a number of collections for adults. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Sheffield Hallam, where he now works part-time.

DAVID HEALEY was Chair of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival for six years. An ex GP he now works for Suffolk Wildlife Trust. He was a contributor to the 2003 Radio 4 Songs of the Soul series. His poems have appeared in Agenda, Smiths Knoll and a Flarestack pamphlet.

MAVIS HOWARD ‘once thought she was more of a playwright, but it’s mostly poetry at present. Was previously in The Rialto in Number 59.’

FRED JOHNSTON lives in Galway, Eire. His eighth collection The Oracle Room was published by Cinnamon Press last year.

FRANCES ANN KING trained as an RGN in the 1970s. She has just completed a degree in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Poems published in Acumen, Agenda, Envoi and a Leaf Books anthology.

VALERIE LYNCH started writing poetry about three years ago. She was then 77 years old with several careers, including Keeper of Archaeology in a City Museum, behind her. She currently works as a psychotherapist in private practice.

CLIVE MCWILLAM lives and works in Chester where he has his own practice as a Landscape Artist and illustrator.

RICHARD MEIER lives and works in London. A number of his poems appeared in Carcanet’s Oxford Poetry Anthology 2002.

HUBERT MOORE lives in Kent. Several collections published, including more recently Touching Down in Utopia and The Hearing Room.

LES MURRAY’s books are published in the UK by Carcanet. The most recent collection is The Biplane Houses. He is a holder of The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. It is to be hoped that the Australian government is aware of his impending 70th birthday and is preparing a suitable celebration.

NICK PEARSON lives in Shropshire and works in the Black Country. His poems have appeared widely in magazines over the last ten years.

PASCALE PETIT’s latest books The Huntress and The Zoo Father (Seren) were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and were Books of the Year in the TLS. Her next collection The Treekeeper’s Tale (Seren) will appear in October 2008. She is Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Middlesex University.

W.H. PETTY is a Yorkshireman now living in Kent, where he was Chief Education Officer. His poetry has been widely published in magazines and has been successful in several national competitions. His latest collection is Hijacked over China with Jane Austen.

SIMON ROYALL was born in Lincolnshire in 1977, and now lives in Gloucester. He’s a graduate of the Cultural Studies degree course at the Norwich School of Art and Design. Poems have appeared in Birdsuit and The Rialto.

ANN SANSOM lives in Sheffield. Her most recent book is In Praise of Men and other people (Bloodaxe).

LESLEY SAUNDERS’ poem 'The Uses of Greek' (first published in The Rialto) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best Single Poem, 1999; lately, a few of her poems in the Divers anthology (Aark Arts 2008). She has a visiting scholarship at New Hall, Cambridge in 2008-09 to create a poetry project on the college gardens.

KATE SCOTT’s first collection, Stitches, was published by Peterloo. She runs workshops in schools in collaboration with Tor Theatre Company.

PETER SCUPHAM lives in Norfolk. He has published ten collections and Carcanet published the eleventh, his Collected Poems, in 2002. His poem ‘Forty Years a Showman’, which first appeared in The Rialto, was shortlisted for the Forward Best Individual Poem Prize.

PENELOPE SHUTTLE lives in Cornwall. She is currently working on a new collection, provisionally titled The Repose of Baghdad. A selection of her poems may be found in the new Bloodaxe anthology In Person: 30 Poets, which also contains a DVD of all the contributors filmed reading their work.

JOHN SIDDIQUE is the author of three collections of poetry including one for children, he also writes and publishes prose and is currently working on a novel. He gives readings, mentors and teaches creative writing in the UK and abroad, and is currently The Poet in Residence for Blackpool. www.johnsiddique.co.uk

STEVE SPENCE recently completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth. His poetry is in In The Presence Of Sharks - New Poetry From Plymouth (2006) and forthcoming in the Survivors Press anthology Orphans of Albion.

PAM THOMPSON lives in Leicester and is a University Lecturer. Her most recent collection is Show Date and Time (Smith /Doorstop). She is a memeber of Inky Fish.

HEIDI WILLIAMSON was a runner up in the Mslexia Poetry competition 2007 and is currently poet-in-residence for The Science Museum’s Dana Centre. She has just received an Arts Council Award to complete her first collection. Poems in The Rialto, Guardian online, Poems in the Waiting Room, Smiths Knoll etc.