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Hélène Armstrong was born in France and now lives in London with her daughter. She has a background in journalism and psychology.

Valerie Blomfield lives in Greenwich and works as a psychotherapist. She is a performance poet and playwright, currently with a play in production by the Jewish Community Theatre Initiative.

David Boll writes full time and has published a novel. He lives in London.

Will Brooker lectures at the University of Wales, Cardiff, where he is undertaking research on Batman. 'In love with your sister, I think' is part of a longer sequence titled Family Vault.

R. L. Cook is Scottish. His poems have appeared in a wide variety of magazines in Britain, the USA and elsewhere. Seven collections of poetry published in Britain.

I. J. Devare is an experimental artist living in East London.

Peter L. Evans is a founder member of Poets Anonymous (Croydon). He assists in the production of the magazine Poetic Licence.

Kay Fletcher lives in Tipton in the Black Country and has had poems in Envoi, Frogmore Papers, People to People, Iota, the Rialto, Smiths Knoll, Scratch and Writing Women.

Ronald Frank cultivates his garden in Surrey and is a compulsive traveller to remote places, hunting small plants on large mountains.

Frances Greaney lives in Islington, a stone's throw from the chattering classes.

E. P. Guest is a qualified translator (French-English). Poems in various anthologies.

Atar Hadari appeared recently in the New Poets feature in Poetry Review. His poems have been published widely and his plays have been performed In Los Angeles, Boston, New York and London. His translations of the Hebrew poet Bialik will be published by Syracuse University Press in Spring 1997.

Kevin Hanson read English & American Studies at Hull University. Now lives and works in East London.

Michael Hatwell lectured at Birmingham and Aberdeen Universities before early retirement. He translates as well as writes poetry. His first collection is Words for the Wind (Envoi 1993).

Helen Heslop lives in Northumberland where she keeps a mean whippet. Her work has been broadcast on Radio 4, won competitions, and appeared in The Independent and magazines such as Envoi, Fat Chance, Other Poetry, Purple Patch, The North, Verse and Writing Women.

V. G. Lee lives in London and appeared at the 1996 Stoke Newington Festival.

Jacqueline Lucas is a photographer, currently working on a book about Tilda Swinton. Poems and short stories in various magazines.

Brendan McMahon is a psychotherapist and university lecturer living in Derbyshire. He has been published widely in, for instance, Stand, Ambit, Honest Ulsterman, Sunk Island Review. First collection, Enemy Lines (University of Salzburg), out later this year.

Jane Ormerod was a 1995 winner of the New Blood prose competition with Thrush which she performed at the ICA. She exhibited at the 'Rebound' bookart exhibition in Sheffield in 1995 and most recently has contributed to Words & Pictures 6 (July 1996). Short stories appearing in Auslander and Psychotrope magazines in 1997.

Jo Roach was born and brought up in North London where she still lives.

Susan Saunders teaches English at Fareham College, Hampshire. Poems in various magazines and The Observer. Now working on first collection.

Murray Shelmerdine teaches drama at the City Lit and can frequently be seen performing his poems and songs at the First Night Cabaret Club in Islington.

Martin Sonenberg has a PhD on Proust from King's College, London. He has lectured and researched in Paris and now teaches at the University of Westminster. Poems and illustrations in Litmus, Magma and Greenwich Anthology. Currently writing a screenplay.

John Stammers lives in Islington and plays cricket in Hertfordshire.

James Sutherland-Smith lives in Slovakia where he teaches at Safarik University. With his wife, he has translated the first anthology in English of contemporary Slovakian poetry, Not Waiting for Miracles.

Stephen Thorne lives in the West Midlands, is 28, and works in a factory.

Peter Tomassi is a writer and editor living in New York City.

Ivor C. Treby is researching the unjustly neglected 1890s poet Michael Field. His own third collection is Woman with Camelias.

Patrick Yarker has had poems in various magazines including London Magazine, Verse, The North and The Rialto. He read at The Voicebox in 1991 in the New Voices series.