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Patience Agbabi’s two collections are R.A.W. and Transformatrix. The poems in this issue of Atlas are taken from her work-in-progress: Problem Pages: Sonnets. She teaches creative writing at the University of Kent and lives in Gravesend.

Wendy Barker is an American poet and academic. Her poetry books include: Winter Chickens, Let the Ice Speak, Eve Remembers (Aark Arts), Way of Whiteness, and Poems from Paradise. She teaches at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Charles Bernstein is a poet and essayist. His most recent poetry books and chapbooks include: Shadowtime, The Sophist, With Strings, Republics of Reality: 1975-1984, Controlling Interests, and The Warrant (Aark Arts). He teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.

Peter Bradshaw studied at Cambridge University and has published Not Alan Clark’s Diaries, Lucky Baby Jesus, Dr Sweet’s Daughter, among others. He contributes regularly to the London Review of Books, New Statesman, Modern Review and Evening Standard. He is the film critic of The Guardian in London.

Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, fiction writer and translator. Her first book of poems is titled Sight May Strike You Blind (Sahitya Akademi), and she has also translated Sukumar Ray’s Abol Tabol (Penguin) from Bengali. Born in Ethiopia, she grew up in Darjeeling, and graduated from LSR College in New Delhi. She lives in Bombay.

Debjani Chatterjee is a poet, children’s writer, translator and anthologist. She is the author of many books of poems including: I Was that Woman, Albino Gecko, Jade Horse Torso, and Namaskar: New & Selected Poems. She is the editor of The Redbeck Anthology of British South Asian Poets. She lives in Sheffield.

Kwame Dawes is an award-winning Ghanaian-Caribbean poet who teaches at University of South Carolina. His many poetry collections include: Progeny of Air (Forward Poetry Prize), Resisting the Anomie, Prophets, Jacko Jacobus, Midland (Hollis Summers Poetry Prize), New and Selected Poems, Impossible Flying and others. He is also an anthologist and musician.

Jibanananda Das [1899-1934] was one of Bengal’s leading poets, widely considered to be the precursor who introduced Modernist poetry to Bengali literature at a time when it was influenced by Rabindranath Tagore’s Romantic poetry.

John F Deane founded Poetry Ireland and the Poetry Ireland Review. His awardwinning poetry collections include: Christ, with Urban Fox, Toccata and Fugue, New & Selected Poems, Manhandling the Deity, The Instruments of Art (all Carcanet) and A Book of Kings (Aark Arts). He is the editor of Dedalus & Waxwing Books, and lives in Dublin.

Imtiaz Dharker is a poet, artist and filmmaker. Her four poetry collections are: Purdah (OUP), Postcards from God, I Speak for the Devil and The Terrorist at my Table (all Bloodaxe). She lives in London and Mumbai.

Tarek Eltayeb is an Austria-based Sudanese poet. He has published several poetry collections and participated in many international festivals.

Zhang Er was born in Beijing and moved to the USA in 1986. Her Chinese books of poetry include: Seen, Unseen and Water Words. Her books in English translation include: Carved Water, Cross River. Pick Lotus, The Autumn of GuYao, Verses on Birds, and Winter Gardens. She lives in Olympia, Washington.

Donald Hall is one of America’s leading poets and men of letters. His many award-winning collections include: Old & New Poems, The One Day, The Museum of Clear Ideas and others. Editor of many anthologies and books of criticism, he is one of the editors of The Paris Review.

A N D Haksar, educated at the universities of Allahabad and Oxford, is a former diplomat. His translated volumes from the Sanskrit include: Subhashitavali; Hitopadesa; Simhasana Dvatrimsika (all Penguin Classics); and Jatakamala [with foreword by the Dalai Lama (HarperCollins)]. He has also compiled A Treasury of Sanskrit Poetry (ICCR).

Mita Kapur is a writer and journalist. Her work has apppeared in leading Indian newspapers and magazines such as the Hindu, Indian Express, Times of India, Tehelka and others. She was the director of the second Jaipur Literary Festival.

Girish Karnad is one of India’s finest and foremost playwrights. He is also an actor and filmmaker and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. Among his many plays are: Naga-Mandala, Hayavadana, Tuglaq, Collected Plays (all OUP). He has been a Hobi Bhabha Fellow, and the recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award & Natya Sangha Award.

Thomas E Kennedy is an American writer, essayist, anthologist, and author of many novels including: Crossing Borders; The Book of Angels; Drive, Dive, Dance & Fight; and Danish Fall. His non-fiction books include Realism & Other Illusions: Essays. He is on the editorial boards of The Literary Review, Story Quarterly, and Absinthe. He lives in Copenhagen.

Tabish Khair is the author of four books of poetry: My World, A Reporter’s Diary, A Book of Heroes, and Where Parallel Lines Meet; three novels: An Angel in Pyjamas, The Bus Stopped, and Filming. His non-fiction books include: Babu Fictions; Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Companion and others. He teaches at the University of Aarhus in Denmark.

Mimi Khalvati, born in Tehran, grew up on the Isle of Wight, and attended the Drama Centre in London. She has published six collections of poetry from Carcanet: Persian Miniatures, In White Ink, Mirrorwork, Entries on Light, Selected Poems, and The Chine. She teaches at Goldsmiths College and directs the Poetry School.

John Kinsella is an Australian poet and anthologist. His many books include: The Hierarcy of Sheep, Wheatlands, and Peripheral Light: Selected & New Poems (New York: W W Norton). He is the international editor of Atlas, Kenyon Review, and Salt literary magazines. Kinsella is the founder of Salt Publishers.

Usha Kishore is a writer, poet and teacher. She lives on the Isle of Mann in Scotland.

Tariq Latif is the author of two books of poetry: Skimming the Soul, and The Minister’s Garden. He was born in Pakistan, grew up in the UK, and now lives in Edinburgh.

Herbert Lomas is a poet, translator and critic. His Letters in the Dark was an Observer book of the year; and he has received the Guinness, Arvon and Cholmondely awards. He edited Contemporary Finnish Poetry; of his nine books of poetry only A Useless Passion is still in print.

Chris McCabe was born in 1977. He has published poems in a number of places including Atlas, Magma and Poetry Review. His first collection The Hutton Inquiry (Salt)  was published in 2005 and he has a featured poem on the Oxfam CD Lifelines. A pamphlet of ludic elegies called The Borrowed Notebook (Landfill) and a book called Zeppelins (Salt) will be published in 2008. He works as Joint Librarian at the Poetry Library in London.

Christopher Merrill directs the International Writing Program at Iowa University. As an award-winning poet, essayist and translator, he has published: Workbook, Fevers & Tides, Watch Fire, The Forgotten Language: Contemporary Poets and Nature, among others. His most recent book of poetry is titled Brilliant Water.

Raman Mundair has published two collections of poems, Lovers, Liars, Conjurers and Thieves and A Choreographer’s Cartography (both Peepal Tree). Her work has appeared in
Atlas, Acumen, Poetry Scotland, and Wasafiri. She lives in Glasgow and the Shetland Islands.

Les Murray is one of Australia’s leading poets. He has published and edited several poetry collections and anthologies, including Learning Human: Selected Poems, Conscious and Verbal, Poems the Size of Photographs, The Biplane Houses (all Farrar,  Straus & Giroux). He has won major literary awards including: the Petrach Prize, T S Eliot Award (for Subhuman Redneck Poems) and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

Chung Hee Moon is a poet and author of many books in Korean, including: Wild Rose, For Men, To Young Love, When I See a Tall Man, False Love, and others. The English translations of her thirty year’s work appeared as a book, Windflower (Hawks, New York). She is the Distinguished Professor of Poetry at the Department of Creative Writing at Dongguk University in Seoul.

Daljit Nagra’s first collection Look We Have Coming to Dover! just appeared from Faber & Faber (2007). His pamphlet, Oh My Rub! was a Smith / Doorstop winner in 2002, and was selected as the PBS’s Pamphlet Choice. His poems have appeared in Poetry Review, PN Review, The North, Stand, New Writing 10, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland, Magma, Tabla, and Atlas. He is a school teacher in Brent and lives in London.

Naomi Shihab Nye’s newest poetry collection is 19 Varieties of Gazelle (HarperCollins). She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, I B Lavan Award from the Academy of American Poets and four Pushcart Prizes.

Ciaran O’Driscoll is an Irish poet who was born in Kilkenny. His books of poetry include: Gog and Magog, The Poet and His Shadow, Listening to Different Drummers, The Old Women of Magione, and Moving On, Still There: New & Selected Poems. He lives in Limerick

Amir Or is an award-winning Hebrew poet with many poetry volumes: Miracle, Language Says, Poem and others. His translations include: Stories from the Mahabharata and The Gospel of Thomas. He is the chief editor of Helicon Society for the Advancement of Poetry in Israel.

Ruth Padel is an award-winning poet and non-fiction writer. Great-great-grand-daughter of Charles Darwin, she has taught at Oxford and Princeton universities. Her many books of poetry include: Alibi, Summer Snow, Angel, Fusewire, Voodoo Shop, and The Soho Leopard. Her non-fiction books include: 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem, The Poem and the Journey, Tigers in Red Weather, and others. She was the chair of the UK Poetry Society between 2004-06.

Tim Parks was born in London and studied at Cambridge and Harvard. He has written eleven novels including Europa, Destiny, Rapids, and most recently, Cleaver, as well as three non-fiction accounts of life in northern Italy (most recently A Season with Verona), a collection of ‘narrative’ essays, Adultery and Other Diversions, and a history of the Medici bank in 15th century Florence, Medici Money. His many translations from the Italian include works by Moravia, Tabucchi, Calvino and Calasso. He lives in Italy.

Saleem Peeradina’s three poetry books are First Offence, Group Portrait (OUP), and Meditations on Desire; his memoir of growing up in Bombay is titled The Ocean in My Yard (Penguin). He edited the Contemporary Indian Poetry in English (Macmillan). He teaches English and Creative Writing at Siena Heights University, Michigan.

Peter Porter has published over 20 volumes of poetry, including: Collected Poems (OUP) 2 Volumes, Max is Missing (Picador) and Afterburner (Picador). He received the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2002.

Mani Rao, born in India, is the author of seven poetry books including: echolocation, Salt, The Last Beach, Living Shadows, and 100 Poems: 1985-2005. Her work appears in Atlas, Wasafiri, Meanjin, Washington Square, Fulcrum and West Coast Line, and in many anthologies including Contemporary Voices of the Far East (New York: W W Norton, 2007). She lives in Hong Kong and India.

Salman Rushdie won the ‘Booker of Bookers’ for his novel, Midnight’s Children. His most recent novel is titled, Shalimar the Clown. He divides his time between USA, UK and India.

Tomaz Salamun is an award-winning Slovenian poet living in Ljubljana. His poetry collections include: The Selected Poems of Tomaz Salamun (Ecco Press), The Shepherd, The Hunter, The Four Questions of Melancholy, Feast (Harcourt Brace) and The Writing (Aark Arts).

Fiona Sampson’s poetry books include: Folding the Real, Birth Chart, Hotel Casino (Aark Arts), The Distance Between Us, and Common Prayer (Carcanet). Her translations include: Jaan Kaplinski’s Evening Brings Everything Back (Bloodaxe). She edits two literary magazines: Orient Express (Oxford) and Poetry Review (London).

K Satchidanandan is an award-winning Malayali poet with many published books, including Summer Rain and So Many Births. He is the former editor of Sahitya Akademi’s literary magazine, Indian Literature.

Sudeep Sen’s award-winning books include: Postmarked India: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins), Distracted Geographies, Prayer Flag and Rain. He has written for the Times Literary Supplement, Guardian, Independent, Observer, Herald, Financial Times, London Magazine, Literary Review, and BBC; and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. His recent work appears in New Writing 15 (Granta).

Leonard Schwartz’s many books include a Flicker at the Edge of Things: Essays on Poetics, Words Before the Articulate: New & Selected Poems, and The Towers of Diverse Shores. He is a co-editor of Primary Trouble: An Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. He is also a translator, broadcaster and teaches at Evergreen College.

C P Surendran is the author of four books of poetry: Gemini II, Posthumous Poems, Canaries on the Moon, and Portraits of the Space we Occupy: New & Selected Poems (HarperCollins). He has also published a novel, An Iron Harvest (Roli/IndiaInk). He works as an editor with The Times of India in Pune.

Owen Sheers is a Fiji-born Welsh prize-winning author of two poetry books: The Blue Book and Skirrid Hill. He has also written a travel memoir, The Dust Diaries (Faber), and very recently a novel, Resistance (Faber).

Rabindranath Tagore was a true polymath: a poet, fiction writer, dramatist, philosopher, artist and musician. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

Shashi Tharoor is a former United Nations career diplomat, a commentator, essayist and an award-winning novelist. His books include: The Great Indian Novel, Show Business, Riot, The Five-Dollar Smile, India: Midnight to Millenium, Bookless in Baghdad, among others. He lives in New York.

Cai Tianxin is a Chinese mathematician, travel writer and poet with several volumes of poetry in Chinese. He has participated in many international literary festivals and has been translated into several languages.

Vallabhadeva compiled Subhashitavali (Penguin Classics), a celebrated Sanskrit verse anthology in 15th century Kashmir, with contributors as wide-ranging as Vyasa and Valmiki, Kalidasa and Bana.

Daniel Weissbort is co-founder, along with Ted Hughes, and former editor of Modern Poetry in Translation, professor emeritus at the University of Iowa and honorary professor at the Centre of Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Warwick. He has written and translated over a dozen books, most recently An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets.

John Hartley Williams is an award-winning poet, novelist, essayist and critic. His many poetry collections include: Spending Time With Walter, and Blues (both Jonathan Cape). North Sea Improvisations (Aark Arts) includes both his poetry and photography. He has co-edited Teach Yourself Writing Poetry (Hodder) and teaches at Free University in Berlin.

Magnus Williamson is a poet. He lives in Glasgow and the Shetland Islands, Scotland.

Neshé Yashin is a poet and novelist from Cyprus who divides her time between there and Turkey. She has published several books and participated in various international literary festivals.