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Elizabeth Birchall: “Further than ever from my career in social work and social policy academia, I am at present engrossed in preparing a book celebrating bees (very topical), a medley provisionally subtitled A Cabinet of Curiosities. My poems have previously appeared in various magazines, including Rialto, Envoi Acumen, North and The Interpreter’s House. I have also featured in anthologies edited and published by Rachel Lever – The West in Her Eye and Her Mind’s Eye, in Oxford Backroom Poets’ anthology East of Auden and in Blinking Eye’s Night Balancing. My first collection The Forest that Sailed Away, a celebration of my home area, was published in 1999 by the Wychwood Press.”

Stewart Carswell: “I am based in Southampton, and my poetry has previously been published in Friction Magazine. I write my poetry as a response to the world I see around me, and the world that I read about.”

Eleanor Clare has a PhD in renaissance drama and works in trade publishing, but loves fiction and poetry more. She is 27, lives in Highbury, and co-edits an independent literary magazine. Her poetry has recently appeared in The Journal, and been shortlisted for the Erbacce Poetry Prize.

Liz Dean: “I work as a writer and editor, working mainly in the field of mind, body and spirit books. My special subject is tarot cards. I am presently researching the oldest tarots of the Renaissance and also developing workshops on tarot for creativity along with another tarot author and novelist, Kay Stopforth. I have been writing poetry since a child, and a few have been published, namely in Magma and, more recently, South Bank Poetry.”

Jack Debney, b. 1941, brought up in Grimsby, where mother’s family have strong roots in the area. Universities: Leeds and, some years later, Warwick. Lecturer in English, University of Alexandria, Egypt, 1963-66. From 1970 until 2006 lecturer in the Englisches Seminar, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany. I still do a couple of courses there. Married, two children, one grandchild. Have published numerous stories and poems over the years in periodicals like Stand, New Edinburgh Review, Panurge, Mediterraneans and Firebird (Penguin). White Adder Press put out a collection of poetry ten years ago: Clowns and Puritans. Redbeck Press, Bradford, has published two collections of stories: The Crocodile’s Head (2002) and The Alexandrian Charlie Chaplin ( 2005 ).

Alasdair Graham lives in Reading and enjoys writing poetry to explore the perspectives of different people, imagine new worlds and feel the jolt of the spoken word. It also keeps him off the streets.

Rosamund Hall lives in Carmarthenshire. Flarestack published her first pamphlet poetry collection Some Women are Islands in 2004.

Mike Loveday: “Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Writing (distinction) from Newcastle University.  For last two years I have studied with Myra Schneider via Poetry School. Published in: Smiths Knoll, Ambit, Stand, Orbis, Envoi, Seam, iota, The Interpreter’s House, The Frogmore Papers, Acumen, Tears in the Fence etc.”

Ayelet McKenzie has two poetry collections and is expecting a third – Courting the Asylum from Survivors Press.

Alasdair Paterson: “I’m retired now, after a career in university libraries. After a lapse of 20 years, I’ve gone back to writing poetry. In the 1970s and 1980s I had a few collections published, including The floating world from Pig Press and Brief lives from Oasis Books. My collection on the governing of empires has been accepted by Shearsman Books.”

Kevin Sharp: “I have lived most of my life in Borehamwood and I now live in Luton. Once a librarian, I am now a teacher. I set myself the task of having a poem published before my 50th birthday, missing out by just under a year. I think that I would never have managed without the help of the Open University’s Creative Writing courses.”

Marion Tracy’s poetry has been published by Scintilla, Tears in the Fence, Dream Catcher, Raindog, and Mslexia. She lives in New South Wales.

Louise Wilford: “I am a student on the MA in Writing course at Sheffield Hallam University, where I am studying poetry and children’s writing. Since beginning to send work out a year ago, I’ve had poems accepted by many magazines. Recently, I was one of 5 runners-up in the annual Mirehouse competition for poems inspired by Tennyson, and one of the four runners--up in the Ragged Raven Competition 2009; I came fourth in the Kent & Sussex Open Poetry Competition and third in ‘The New Writer competition. I am currently working on two children’s novels.”

John Younger: “Born Croydon, Surrey 1930. Studied Painting at Royal College of Art. After teaching some years became blind. Gained First in English Lit. at Leeds University and subsequently lectured in The School of English for twenty years. Retired as Senior Fellow. Have always written poetry, but after loss of sight it became alternative creative life. Write using a computer fitted with a voice synthesiser and secretary/reader Sue. Published in magazines fairly widely and regularly, have first collection Viewing Point out.”