Poetry Magazines - The best collection of poetry magazines online - Simon Armitage

Jean Abbott is a playwright and lives in Flitwick.

Donald Atkinson, formerly editor of  Spokes, is the author of A Sleep of Drowned Fathers (Peterloo).

Ted Beausire is a skiing instructor and lives in Hertford.

Ruth Bidgood is one of the senior poets of Wales.  Her Selected Poems are published by Seren.

F. M. Brown was born in Sheffield but inexplicably gravitated south thirty years ago.  Previous publications have been in Other Poetry.

Pat Buik is active in Toddington Poets and has had several poems in national magazines.

Chris Considine is a teacher in Bedford.

John Cotton is the founder of Priapus Press and has published several collections of poetry.

David Edwards is 22 and lives in Bedford.  Formerly a philosophy student, he is planning to move into journalism.

Liz Faux is a special needs teacher and lives in Harpenden.

Diana Forrest  is a member of the long-term unemployed.

David William Foster is a pseudonym.

Ted Griffin  is a former chairman of Open University Poets.

Philip Gross won the National Poetry Competition in 1982 for his poem The Ice Factory.  A volume of the same name is published by Faber.

Ralph Hancock lives in Chesterfield and is a member of Open University Poets.

Geoffrey Holloway served in the RAMC, 1939-45,  and is published in More Poems of the Second World War (Oasis).  Formerly a social worker, he is now retired and lives in Cumbria.

Peter Howard lives in Cambridge.  Envoi published a booklet of his poems last year.

May Ivimy lives in St Albans and is active in Ver Poets.

Tessa Ransford is editor of  Lines Review and runs the Scottish Poetry Library.

Chris Riley lives in Bedford and has published several poems for adults and children.

Peter Salt is Literature Development Worker at Bedford Library.

James Scott lives in Milton Keynes and is a member of Speakeasy.

Liz Silk is an artist.  Her exhibition ‘Love, War and Angels’ recently  appeared at Leighton Buzzard Library.

Julius Smit  is a peripatetic archive photographer and was co-founder with Colin Blundell of Spokes.

Pauline Stainer lives in Saffron Walden.  Her collection The Honeycomb is published by Bloodaxe, and she also appears in The New Poetry.

Mark Steinhardt lives in Wellingborough.

Peter Stileman works for the Red Cross and is secretary of Toddington Poets.

Hugh Underhill lives in Bedford.  He is the author of  The Problem of Consciousness in Modern Poetry (Cambridge University Press 1992).

John Powell Ward is a former editor of  Poetry Wales and current editor of the Border Lines biography series.  His latest collection, A Certain Marvellous Thing, does unusual things with capital letters.

Robert Ward, who has a background in science teaching, is now retired and runs popular poetry workshops.

Linda Warman lives in Bedford with her children.

Jonathan Whittle works in Milton Keynes.

Gwydion M. Williams is a computer operator in Peterborough.

Frances Wilson lives in Ware and runs a writers’ workshop.  Her poem ‘Making Poppy Dolls’ won second prize in the 1990 National Poetry Competition.