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Nick Andrews “I write poetry because I feel that it is still the sharpest form of communication, and the most effective in conveying feeling rather than facts, lending an almost visible shape to words which colours up in your mind. As a therapy I find poetry (writing and reading) unbeatable”

Emma-Jane Arkady’s Lithium was published last year by Arc

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.”

Penelopeanne Daigleish was born in Nottingham in 1977. Now lives in Peterborough with two cats. Has held residencies at Safeway and Northampton Rugby Club. Her sequence Sectioned has just been published by Flarestack. Her website can be found at www.penelopeanne.com.

Willam Danes-Volkov is 45, overweight, and has lived in Kent all his life. He is a Distribution Manager, sheep farmer and poet in that order as far as income is concerned, but in the reverse order for preservation of sanity. Started writing after attending a course run by Sue Wicks. 40 or so poems in various journals, but still too insecure about his work to read it in public

Edward Dutton, born Wandsworth 1980, studied Theology at Durham University. Had a play Black Armbands — on the issue of child abuse — at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2001

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

Nancy A Henry is a lawyer in training, currently raising her family in Western Maine. Her chapbook Brie Fly was published in 2000

Mark Leech’s writings have appeared in a number of magazines and his first novel has just been accepted by a publisher. For his sins he lives in London and goes by several nicknames

Fiona Owen teaches An Introduction to the Humanities for the Open University and contemporary Buddhist poetry for UCW, Bangor’s Department of Lifelong Learning. Songs are also written and performed with husband under the name “Pondman”.

Steven Taylor was born and brought up in Hyde near Manchester and now lives in Kilburn, north London, as the English aspect of an Irish household