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Jacqueline Bartlett is Warden of a Quaker Meeting House in Wirrall, where she is very active in the lively local poetry workshop and reading scene.  “I began writing poetry twelve years ago because I thought it might be ‘easier’ than the short fiction, children’s stories and radio plays I was trying to market.  How wrong can anybody be?  I enjoy in particular the work of Gillian Clarke, Seamus Heaney and Bernard O’Donaghue.”   

Graham Clifford graduated from the UEA MA last September. He lives in London where he works as a Specialist Creative Tutor. “I always like to add my email address [email protected] just in case. Of what exactly, I’m not sure.”  

Jennifer Esrailian is currently a Creative Writing major at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  

Matt Fallaize lives and works in Ormskirk, Lancashire, where he has to make his own fun. A recent MA, he does this by mucking about.   

A M Forster, born in Yorkshire but long resident in Scotland, works as a freelance writer/creative writing teacher.  Awarded a Scottish Arts Council Writer’s Bursary in 1998.  Most recent project encouraging children to respond imaginatively to industrial history. 

Thomas Kellar was born 1955, in Ft. Worth Texas. Currently he lives in California's Sierra Foothills where he began writing poetry in 1998. He is married, has 2 sons, occasionally hears voices and has difficulty in remembering the sequence of past events. Tom enjoys discordant jazz, cheap cigars, professional basketball, and toasting the evening sunset from the sanctity of his wraparound porch. 

John Lindley writes articles on rock music, runs creative and critical workshops for writers’ groups, performs all over the place and keeps winning poetry competition prizes.  
  
Maureen McManus, from Ireland, is taking regular workshops in poetry. She has been given a small bursary by the Poetry Society and is a member of the Oval Theatre Writers Group, where her first play was recently given a rehearsed reading.

Bryan Podmore has retired to where Shropshire has wildly strayed into Wales. Straying less wildly, he likes to surprise himself and willing students with what the imagination can bring up. It often helps him to have a painting in view to set him or them off.

Gordon Scapens was born in Liverpool but settled in Preston for occupational reasons. “Poems in a variety of magazines but always trying to improve”.

Jenny Swann's first book-length collection, Soft Landings, was published by Flambard Press in October 2002.  

John West is married with a six foot three son who is very good at basketball. Although he has done many other things he is a nurse at the moment and many of his poems are inspired by the people he meets in that capacity. He has written poems for 25 years and his fourth collection All I Ever Wanted was a Window is due in October 2002 from Pardalote Press in Hobart, Australia.

Loveday Why, born 1983, is taking a year out to work before studying English literature at Warwick University. Poems in anthologies and magazines.