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Contributors new to FIRE in this issue are

JOSEPH ALLEN, young poet from N. Ireland, first publication?

ADRIAN ATTERBURY, likewise is a new, little published writer.

TILLA BRADING, widely respected and published experimental writer, is reviews editor of PQR.

JENNIFER COPLEY has been writing for 5 - 6 years and is beginning to get her work published and noticed.

TOMMY CURRAN from co. Cork is little published up to now.

K.M. DERSLEY is a widely known and respected small press poet and reviewer. Fugitive Days (Redbeck) his most recent collection.

I know nothing about U.S. poet JIM DeWITT, but I liked the poems he sent.

JULIE FAY is a widely published U.S. poet and fiction writer.

PATRICK GASPERINI has appeared in Angel Exhaust and other UK mags.

GEOFFREY GODBERT has 8 collections of poetry to his name, including a selected from Univ. of Salzburg in 1996, he was active in Angels of Fire poetry collective in the 80s and appeared in their anthology, and has co-edited with Harold Pinter two Faber poetry anthologies, 100 Poems by 100 Poets, and 99 Poems in Translation.

MARILYN HACKER is a very widely respected U.S. poet who has appeared in numerous anthologies and mags and has several collections to her name. The poems here are from her latest work-in-progress.

I know little about JOHN HAWKHEAD but have seen his powerful work in other mags.

LESLIE KEITH is a new unpublished writer, and so is SITARA KHAN, a young Asian woman writer from Leeds.

S.J. LITHERLAND is widely published. Her recent collection is The Apple Exchange (Flambard)

SARAH OSBORNE is a new, little published writer.

ROGER PERRIN, a native of New York, widely travelled in his youth, now works in the care sector in Lancashire where he is active in local poetry  circles.

TOM PICKARD, lyrical post-beat enfant terrible of the alternative poetry scene in 60s/70s UK, recently published fuckwind with Etruscan Books, from which his poems here are taken.

VICKY POINTING, a young writer who's been writing for some years, is just beginning to get published.

DAVID PRATT, a Canadian and formerly an academic writer, divides his time between UK and US and publishes his poetry and fiction in mags in both countries.

AMANDA RICHARDSON is a new, unpublished writer as far as I'm aware.

RICHARD REEVE is a widely published writer of poetry and fiction.

MICHAEL SHAYER, co-founder of Migrant Press in the 50s and active in the fledgling alternative UK poetry scene in those years, has had little of his work published recently.

New Zealand poet TRACEY SLAUGHTER is an exciting new voice in world poetry. She is seeking a publisher for her first collection, The Understanding  of Silence.

Yorkshire poet ANNA TAYLOR is widely published. Her fifth and most recent collection is Inter- (Redbeck, 1998).

Also widely published, in mags and anthologies, Loughborough poet DEBORAH TYLER-BENNETT edits The Coffee House and published her book, Edith Sitwell: The Forgotten Modernist, in 1996.

LOUISE THAYER is studying Creative Writing at Cardiff University. Little published so far.

STEVE URWIN from Consett is widely published and his first full collection, Tightrope Walker, is due shortly from Redbeck.

RUPERT WALDRON from London is little published as far as I'm aware.

Likewise JEFFREY WOODS' spiritual nature poetry.

Further notes on contributors -

JOANNA ASHWELL's first collection, America in the Palm of my Hand & The Fire Starter Poems, appeared from Flarestack in 1998.

scan bum's long poem of our time, mcenemy, had sections published in FIRE no.6 & no. 9. The pieces published in this issue are the concluding sections of the work.

OWEN DAVIS's long poem, serialised over 5 issues of FIRE, concludes in this issue.

ALLEN FISHER's work, Slooing, is part of his major work-in-progress, Gravity as a Consequence of Shape.

NICHOLAS JOHNSON's work published here is likewise part of a longer work-in-progress.

Selections from GILES GOODLAND's end-of-century fact-collages have appeared in various magazines over the last year, including FIRE no.8 & no.9 as well as this issue. He awaits a publisher for the whole sequence.

BILL GRIFITHS' work, A Book of Spilt Cities, appeared from etruscan books, 24a Fore St Buckfastleigh S.Devon TQ1 1 OAA, £9.50 in Nov.99. This is a major collection of Griffiths' recent work.

JOHN MANSLLL published his excellent collection Kakemonos in 1999. £3.50 from John Mansell 237 Stockport Rd Denton Manchester M34 6AX.

LLOYD ROBSON's most recent collection from his own Black Hat Press 40 Ruby Street Cardiff CF24 1LN, was Letter from Sissi, (1998, £6.50). The further excerpt printed here from Crash Poem Mary Tavy continues from the piece published in FIRE no.7.

ROBERT IAN SCOTT remains in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, writing about and applying structural grammars and semantics. An earlier version of his fine poem Monotony appeared in FIRE no.6.

ALAN WHITAKER's first collection in many years, Snow in June, has just appeared from Redbeck Press, 24 Aireville Road Frizinghall Bradford 8D9 4HH.