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ANTONIA BANYARD is a Zambian living in Canada since 1974. She has a BA in Creative Writing, has worked in publishing and creative design, and is a member of Seven Sisters Writing Group. Work has appeared in magazines in Australia, Canada, and UK.

PETER ARDERN is little published up to now.

TIM BUCHANAN is a post-beat writer and musician from Nashville. His CD Never Mentioned but Noticed Communion came out last year

GERARD CASEY (1918 - 2000) is a major British poet whose work should be better known. See Editorial notes for further information.

PAUL CLYNE recently graduated in English Studies from Stirling University. I believe this is his first published poem.

MARK CZANIK is a new name to me.

LYNDON DAVIES lives in Wales and his work likewise is new to me.

BARBARA ELLIS is widely published and active in Dorset poetry circles.

GERALD ENGLAND is very widely published, he runs New Hope International press & Aabye magazine

SUSANNA FULTON’s work is new to me. I believe she is a young unpublished writer.

HARRY GUEST’s books include several collections from Anvil Press and a translation of Victor Hugo’s poems. His most recent collection is So Far (Stride, 1998), he edited and translated Penguin’s Post-War Japanese Poetry, and appears widely in anthologies and magazines. He has travelled very widely, having taught in Japan for many years, and then until his retirement at Exeter School, and was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 1993 and Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of Plymouth, 1998.

JOHN GUNNELL has had his poetry appearing in books and magazines for many years.

NICHOLAS HANCOCK is another new name to me.

Y. HIRSCHON is an exciting and innovating young Oxford poet, these his first published poems I believe.

LOIS HOWARD is “a Southerner who moved to Cumbria and found she had come home.”

MARIE THERESA JACKSON is the pen-name of a Californian-born writer whose family origin is The Philippines. This are her first published poems apart from one accepted by Abbey Journal in Maryland. She studies Chinese Mandarin and is a graduate student at California State University.

SUE JOHNSON is an active poet in Worcestershire whose work is beginning to appear more widely.

I know little about Greek poet DINA KAFIRIS.

LAURA KING is a performance-oriented poet active in the Oxford area.

BRIAN LEVISON’s early work was collected in Strange Smells of a Cat (Redbeck Press) and he has continued to have work published in the years since. He recently completed the libretto for a Choral Work Exodus which was premiered by Harrow Choral Society in March 2002. He also is a poet active in the Oxford area.

CLAIRE MARSHALL is I believe a young unpublished writer.

HOSHO McCREESH has only been sending his work out for 3 years or so. He has been published in US, and a small chapbook has appeared in Australia. This will be his first publication in Europe. An ex-construction worker, he now works as a live-in carer for a quadraplegic in Albuquerque..

WALLACE McKITRICK had work published in the 70s and 80s but has only recently resumed submitting his poems. He works as a Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer for ATSIC in Australia.

SUE MOULES is widely published over the years.

A. MARY MURPHY is an Alberta poet currently at work on her doctoral dissertation. Her poems have appeared in a wide variety of journals, both in Canada and outside.

ROBERT NAZARENE has appeared in various US magazines including Atlanta Review & Ploughshares.

STEPHEN OWEN is active in the Midlands poetry readings and published his work more widely.

SCOTT PACK has had work published recently in various magazines including Acid Angel and Terrible Work. He was born in 1970, now lives in Windsor, and had a collection aardvark published by Hybrid in 1990.

I know little about short story writer CATHERINE F. LE BARS.

Likewise Australian fiction writer MAXINE PATMORE.

MATTHEW PENDLETON, GLENN PERRY, & DARREN RAMSAY are all young, unpublished writers.

ELAINE RANDELL is a highly acclaimed and very widely published poet with a number of books to her name, and has given many readings over the years in this country and the U.S. For many years she pursued a career as a social worker and Guardian ad Litem alongside that of a writer, with her writing frequently drawing on this parallel career.

HEATHER REYES has been published in Chicago Review and Fiction International in US as well as a number of British magazines, and has read her work extensively, most recently at the Essex Book Festival 2001.

VANESSA RIVINGTON was unknown to me, but I understand has had work in several anthologies and magazines.

LEE SLONIMSKY manages Ocean Partners LP, and his poems have appeared in Tears in the Fence, and in numerous US magazines, and have received two Pushcart nominations.

ALYSON TORNS works as a tennis coach and is studying for a Creative Writing degree at Luton University. She has given readings at London venues and had work published in Poetry London and The Interpreters House.

SHEILA TRAPOVSKA is previously unpublished.

PETER VETRANO is looking for a publisher for his collection Cotton Candy.

ANDREW WATERHOUSE sadly took his own life last year at a time when his poetry was becoming widely respected and published.

JOHN WEST lives in Melbourne, Australia, and works as a nurse, many of his poems reflecting his experiences in nursing.

MARK WISNIEWSKI has a very large list of publications to his credit, including a Pushcart Prize, over 100 poems and short stories in magazines, and a successful novel Confessions of a Polish Used Car Salesman. His latest book is All Weekend With The Lights On (leapingdogpress.com).

Two anthologies come with very strong recommendations from me —
american diaspora (poetry of displacement) edited by VirgiL Suárez and Ryan C. van Cleave — University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242. (Both editors are regulars in Fire).

and just out — Freedom to Breathe (Modern Prose Poetry from Baudelaire to Pinter) edited by Geoffrey Codbert — Stride Publications, 11 Sylvan Road, Exeter EX4 6EW, £10.00.

also Denise Levertov’s last poems, published by Bloodaxe under the title This Great Unknowing. (£7.95 and also highly recommended).