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1 IAIN BAMFORTH Iain Bamforth was born in 1959 into a Plymouth Brethren family and grew up in Glasgow, where he attended university. He is a doctor and scientific translator. He now lives and runs his own practice in Strasbourg, and contributes regularly to a number of periodicals including PN Review, The Times Literary Supplement and the New York Times Book Review. Sons and Pioneers received a Scottish Arts Council Book Award in Verso publish his literary history of medicine, The Body in the Library, along with a book of essays on medicine and modernity. Publications: The Good European (2006), A Place in the World (2005), Open workings (1996), Sons and Pioneers (1992) Local Interest: Strasbourg, France ALISON BRACKENBURY Alison Brackenbury was born in Lincolnshire in 1953 and studied at Oxford. She now lives in Gloucestershire, where she works as a director and manual worker in the family metal finishing business. Her poems are regularly broadcast on BBC Radio. Her work recently won a Cholmondeley Award. Publications: Singing in the Dark (2008), Bricks and Ballads (2004), After Beethoven (2000), 1829 (1995), Selected Poems (1991), Christmas Roses (1988), Breaking Ground (1984), Dreams of Power (1981) Local Interest: Gloucestershire, England SUJATA BHATT Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad, India. She grew up in Pune (India) and in the United States. She received her MFA from the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. She has published six collections of poetry with Carcanet Press. She received the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award for her first collection, Brunizem (1988). Her work has been widely anthologised, broadcast on radio and television, and has been translated into more than twenty languages. Sujata Bhatt s poems are set-texts on the GCSE syllabus. Publications: Pure Lizard (2008), A Colour for Solitude (2002), Augatora (2000), Point No Point (1997), The Stinking Rose (1995), Monkey Shadows (1991) Brunizem (1988) Local Interest: Bremen, Germany CARMEN BUGAN Carmen Bugan was born in Romania and educated at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, in Ireland and at Balliol College, Oxford, where she researched a doctorate on East European poetry in translation and the work of Seamus Heaney. Her poetry and short essays appear, among other places, in PN Review, Modern Poetry in Translation and Harvard Review. She was an editor of Oxford Poetry and is a Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. Publication: Crossing the Carpathians (2004) Local Interest: Oxford, England EAVAN BOLAND Born in Dublin in 1944, Eavan Boland studied in Ireland, London and New York. Her first book was published in She has taught at Trinity, University, and Bowdoin Colleges in Dublin as well as at the University of Iowa. She is currently Mabury Knapp Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, California. Her poems and essays have appeared in magazines such as the New Yorker, the Atlantic, The Kenyon Review and American Poetry Review. She is a regular reviewer for the Irish Times. She divides her time between California and Dublin where she lives with her husband, the novelist Kevin Casey. Publications: Eavan Boland Sourcebook (2007), Domestic Violence (2007), Object Lessons (2006), New Collected Poems (2005), Three Irish Poets (2003), Code (2002), The Lost Land (1998) Local Interest: California, USA ; Dublin, Ireland MOYA CANNON Moya Cannon was born in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal, in 1956 and now lives in Galway. She studied history and politics at University College, Dublin, and international relations at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. She published two collections of poems before her Carcanet debut, Carrying the Songs (2007): Oar (Salmon Publishing, 1990; Poolbeg Press, 1994; The Gallery Press, 2000) and The Parchment Boat (The Gallery Press, 1997). She has been an editor of Poetry Ireland Review and writer-in-residence at Trent University, Ontario, and at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris. In 1990 Oar was awarded the Brendan Behan Memorial Prize and in 2001, Moya Cannon was presented with the Lawrence O Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. She was elected to Aosdána, the affiliation of Irish writers and visual artists, in Publication: Carrying the Songs (2007) Local Interest: Galway, Ireland

2 LINDA CHASE Linda Chase grew up in a suburb of New York City and studied creative writing at Bennington College in Vermont. She then became a stage costume designer in San Francisco and later in Edinburgh. In 1980 she moved to Manchester and established her own Tai Chi school and also taught in psychiatric and geriatric hospitals. At the age of 50, she began to publish poems in magazines and journals. She attended many Arvon workshops and then completed the MA course at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poems have won many prizes and appeared widely in magazines. Publication: Extended Family (2006), The Wedding Spy (2001) Local Interest: Manchester, England SASHA DUGDALE Sasha Dugdale was born in Sussex. Between 1995 and 2000 she lived and worked in Russia. In 1999 she initiated the Russian theatre New Writing project with the Royal Court, London, and currently works as a translator and consultant at the Royal Court. Four of her translations have been staged - Plasticine by Vassily Sigarev won the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. Her poems have been published in Oxford Poets 2002 and New Writing 12 (Picador 2003). In 2003 she received an Eric Gregory Award. Publications: The Estate (2007), Notebook (2003) Local Interest: Brighton & London, England JOHN F. DEANE John F. Deane was born on Achill Island in He founded Poetry Ireland - the National Poetry Society - and Poetry Ireland Review in He is the author of many collections of poetry and some fiction. His poetry has been published in French, Bulgarian, Romanian, Italian and Swedish translations. In 1996 Deane was elected Secretary-General of the European Academy of Poetry. He received the O Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 1998, and the Grand International Prize for Poetry, Romania in He was given the prestigious Marten Toonder Award for Literature in His poems in Italian, translated by Roberto Cogo, won the 2002 Premio Internazionale di Poesia Città di Marineo for the best foreign poetry of the year. John F. Deane is a member of Aosdána. Publications: A Little Book of Hours (2008), The Instruments of Art (2005), Manhandling the Deity (2003), Toccata and Fugue (2000) Local Interest: Dublin, Ireland GREG DELANTY Greg Delanty was born in Cork, Ireland in 1958, and lived there until He now lives most of the year in Vermont where he teaches at Saint Michael s College. For three months of each year he returns to his Irish home in Derrynane, County Kerry. Delanty has received numerous awards for his poetry, including the Patrick Kavanagh Award (1983), the Allan Dowling Poetry Fellowship (1986), and the Austin Clarke Centenary Poetry Award (1997). In 1999 he was a prize winner in the National Poetry Competition. He has received an Irish Arts Council Bursary, and has been widely anthologised. He is politically active and ran for the Vermont Green Party in the US elections. JOHN GALLAS John Gallas was born in 1950 in Wellington, New Zealand. He then went to Otago University in New Zealand, and won a Commonwealth Scholarship to Merton College, Oxford to study medieval literature. He currently works for the Leicestershire Student Support Service teaching permanently excluded schoolchildren. He has published five earlier collections of poetry with Carcanet and edited the anthology of world poetry, The Song Atlas (2002). His minor obsessions include Central Asia and Mongolia, camels, cycling, kinds of anarchism, swimming, Fellini, Beckett, Cormac McCarthy, Schnittke, tramping, T.E. Lawrence, sitting breathless on the tops of mountains, and writing poetry. Forthcoming Publication: Forty Lies (July 2010) Publications: The Book with Twelve Tales (2008), Star City (2004), The Song Atlas (2002), Resistance is Futile (1999), Flying Carpets Over Filbert Street (1993), Practical Anarchy (1989), Local Interest: Leicestershire, England ROGER GARFITT Roger Garfitt was born in He won the Gregory Award in 1974 and has been a freelance writer ever since. He was married to the late Frances Horovitz, whose Collected Poems he edited in From 1985 to 1992 he spent much of his time in Colombia, where he reported for Granta and the London Review of Books. Now remarried and living in Shropshire, he is working on his autobiography, The Horseman's Word. Publications: Selected Poems (2000), Given Ground (1989) Local Interest: Shropshire, England Publications: Collected Poems (2006), The Ship of Birth (2003), The Blind Stitch (2001), The Hellbox (1999) Local Interest: Vermont, USA

3 JOHN GLOVER Jon Glover was born in Sheffield in 1943 and was educated at the University of Leeds, where he met Jon Silkin, Ken Smtih, Geoffrey Hill, Peter Redgrove, David Wright and Jeffrey Wainwright. He spent in the United States with his wife, Elaine. In 1968 he began teaching at what has since become the University of Bolton, where he is currently Research Professor. He edited The Penguin Book of First World War Prose (1989) with Jon Silkin, and is currently researching the Stand and Silkin archives held at the University of Leeds and working on a biography of Jon Silkin. He is now the Managing Editor of Stand. Publications: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (2008), To the Niagara Frontier (1994), Our Photographs (1986) Local Interest: Bolton, England ROBERT GRAY Robert Gray was born in Australia in 1945 and grew up in a small port on the coast of New South Wales, where his father owned a banana plantation. He left school early and became a cadet journalist on a country newspaper. He moved to Sydney at nineteen and has lived there since, working as a journalist, advertising copywriter and buyer for bookshops. Since the 1970s he has been the recipient of many government grants for his poetry, which is now taught widely in secondary schools in Australia. He has also taught creative writing classes. Publications: Nameless Earth (2006), Grass Script (1978) Local Interest: Sydney, Australia LORNA GOODISON Lorna Goodison was born and grew up in Jamaica, where she still has a home. She has taught in Canada and in the United States. She is a major participant in literature festivals and has performed her poetry all over Europe and North America. Both her poetry and prose are widely anthologised. Publications: Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems (2006), Guinea Woman (2000) Local Interest: Ontario, Canada; Kingston, Jamaica KELLY GROVIER Kelly Grovier was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and educated at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his doctorate from Oxford University in 2005 after being awarded a British Marshall Scholarship. Founder of the scholarly journal European Romantic Review, he is a regular contributor to The Times Literary Supplement and the Observer. He has written widely on the Romantic poets, especially Wordsworth and Keats, and his biography of London's notorious Newgate prison was published by John Murray (Hodder) in In 2004 he was appointed Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Publications: A Lens in the Palm (2008) Local Interest: Aberystwyth, Wales; Oxford, England; Michigan & California, USA JORIE GRAHAM Jorie Graham is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Dream of the Unified Field, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Born in New York in 1951, Graham grew up in France and Italy and was educated at the Sorbonne, New York University and the University of Iowa. A former director of the renowned Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, she now divides her time between western France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she teaches poetry at Harvard University. Publications: Sea Change (2008), The Dream of the Unified Field (1996) Local Interest: Massachusetts & Iowa City, USA SOPHIE HANNAH Sophie Hannah was born in Manchester in 1971 and now lives in West Yorkshire. She was Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge and a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. She has published five collections of poetry with Carcanet, a book of poems for children, and two psychological crime novels, Little Face (2006) and Hurting Distance (2007), both with Hodder & Stoughton. Sophie has won awards for her short stories and for her poetry. In June 2004 she was chosen for the Next Generation poetry promotion as one of the best twenty poets to emerge in the last ten years. Publications: Pessimism for Beginners (2007), First of the Last Chances (2003), Leaving and Leaving You (1999), Hotels like Houses (1996), Hero and the Girl Next Door (1995) Local Interest: Manchester & Yorkshire, England

4 TIM KENDALL Tim Kendall was born in Plymouth in He has published studies of Paul Muldoon and Sylvia Plath and was founding editor of the poetry magazine Thumbscrew. He lives with his wife and children in North Wiltshire and is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter. His full-length study, Modern English War Poetry, is available from OUP, and his debut collection of poems is Strange Land. Publication: Strange Land (2005) Local Interest: Exeter, England THOMAS KINSELLA Thomas Kinsella was born in Dublin in He attended University College, Dublin, entering the Civil Service, before becoming a full-time writer and teacher in the United States. He is the author of over thirty collections of poetry, and has translated extensively from the Irish, notably the great epic The Tain. The editor of The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse and of Austin Clarke's Selected Poems and Collected Poems, he is also the author of The Dual Tradition, a critical essay on poetry and politics in Ireland. His awards and honours include Guggenheim Fellowships. In 2007 Thomas Kinsella was awarded the Freedom of the City of Dublin. Publications: Prose Occasions (2009) Selected Poems (2007), Collected Poems (2002), The Dual Tradition (1995) Local Interest: Dublin, Ireland MIMI KHALVATI Born in Tehran in 1944, Mimi Khalvati grew up on the Isle of Wight and attended the Drama Centre, London. She then worked as a theatre director in Tehran, translating English into Farsi and devising new plays, as well as co-founding the Theatre in Exile group. She now lives in Hackney and is a Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths College and a director of the London Poetry School. Publications: The Meanest Flower (2007), The Chine (2002), Selected Poems (2002), Entries on Light (1997), Mirrorwork (1995), In White Ink (1991) Local Interest: London, England FRANK KUPPNER Frank Kuppner was born in Glasgow in 1951 and has lived there ever since. He has published seven books of poetry with Carcanet. Second Best Moments in Chinese History was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Book award in A novelist as well as a poet, he received the McVitie s Prize for his fiction in Publications: Arioflotga (2008), A God s Breakfast (2004), What? Again? Selected Poems (2000), A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty (1984), The Intelligent Observation of Naked Women (1987), Ridiculous! Absurd! Disgusting! (1989), Everything is Strange (1994), Second Best Moments in Chinese History (1997) Local Interest: Glasgow, Scotland DAVID KINLOCH David Kinloch was born in Glasgow in A graduate of the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he is currently Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Strathclyde. His first collection of poems, Paris-Forfar, was described by Edwin Morgan in the Scotsman as notable for three things: successes in the impossible genre of the prose-poem,... a trio of lively flytings... and a series of moving elegies for a gay lover dead from AIDS.' He has recently received a Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award. Publications: In My Father s House (2005), Un Tour D Ecosse (2001) Local Interest: Glasgow, Scotland R.F. LANGLEY R.F. Langley was born in Rugby in He was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge and went on to teach English and Art History in secondary schools. He has lived in Staffordshire for most of his life, but the inspiration for much of his work comes from the landscapes of Suffolk. He has published pamphlets and his work has appeared in many journals and anthologies. Publications: The Face of It (2007), Collected Poems (2000) Local Interest: Suffolk, England

5 GREVEL LINDOP Grevel Lindop was born in Liverpool and now lives in Manchester, where he was formerly a Professor of English at the University. His books include, A Literary Guide to the Lake District; The Opium Eater: A Life of Thomas De Quincey; and editions of Chatterton, De Quincey and Robert Graves's The White Goddess. He has published six volumes of poems, most recently Playing With Fire. Publications: Playing with Fire (2006), Selected Poems (2000) Local Interest: Manchester, England PETER McDONALD Peter McDonald was born and grew up in Belfast. He is a winner of the Newdigate Prize for Poetry and an Eric Gregory Award. A university teacher, he is currently Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language at Christ Church, Oxford. A prominent critic of modern and contemporary poetry, he has published a book on Louis MacNeice, a study of Northern Irish poetry entitled Mistaken Identities and, more recently, Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill. He has edited MacNeice's Selected Plays, and is also the editor of the new edition of MacNeice's Collected Poems. Publications: The House of Clay (2007), Pastorals (2004) Local Interest: Oxford, England; Belfast, Northern Ireland CAROLA LUTHER Carola Luther was born in She grew up in South Africa and moved to England in She works in Leeds and lives in the Yorkshire Pennines. Carola Luther's techniques dramatize to unusual effect the turns love can take. Like the best of her debut, they are both invigorating and quietly disturbing; their strange atmospheres linger. - Stephen Knight, The Times Literary Supplement Publication: Walking the Animals (2004) Local Interest: Leeds, England GERRY McGRATH Gerry McGrath was born in Helensburgh, near Glasgow, in 1962 and studied at Strathclyde University before becoming a teacher. He now lives in North Ayrshire with his wife, Kate, and young son, Liam. He worked as a teacher of modern languages for seven years until He received a Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award in His poems have appeared in Edinburgh Review, Painted, Spoken and PN Review, and a selection were published in Carcanet's New Poetries IV: An Anthology (2007). A to B is his first collection. Publication: A to B (2008) Local Interest: North Ayrshire, Scotland BILL MANHIRE Bill Manhire was born in Invercargill in He was his country's inaugural Poet Laureate and has won the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry four times. He holds a personal chair at the Victoria University of Wellington, where he directs the celebrated creative writing programme and the International Institute of Modern Letters. Publications: Lifted (2007), Collected Poems (2001), South Pacific (1994) Local Interest: Auckland, New Zealand PATRICK McGUINNESS Patrick McGuinness was born in 1968 in Tunisia. In 1998 he won an Eric Gregory Award for poetry from the Society of Authors and his work has appeared in the Independent, PN Review, Poetry Wales, Leviathan and other journals and magazines. He has also translated For Anatole's Tomb by Stéphane Mallarmé and edited the prose and poems of the Welsh modernist poet Lynette Roberts. He is a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where he lectures in French. Publications: The Canal of Mars (2004) Local Interest: Caernarfon, Wales; Oxford England

6 ANDREW McNEILLIE Andrew McNeillie was born in North Wales in 1946 and read English at Magdalen College, Oxford. In 2002 he established the Clutag Press to publish poetry. His prose memoir, An Aran Keening, tells of his stay on Inis Mór, from His collection of poems Nevermore (2000), in Carcanet's OxfordPoets series, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He was Literature Editor at Oxford University Press before moving to Falmouth to teach creative writing. Forthcoming Publication: In Mortal Memory (February 2010) Publications: Slower (2006), Now, Then (2002), Nevermore (2000) Local Interest: Oxford & Falmouth, England; Ireland ROBERT MINHINNICK Robert Minhinnick was born in 1952 and lives in South Wales. He is the winner of a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award, and has twice won the Forward Prize for best individual poem. His books of essays have twice won the Wales Book of the Year Prize. Robert Minhinnick edited Poetry Wales magazine from 1997 to His first novel, Sea Holly (Seren), was shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize. He is an advisor to the environmental charity Sustainable Wales. Publications: King Driftwood (2008), The Adulterer s Tongue (trans.) (2003), After the Hurricane (2002), Selected Poems (1999) Local Interest: Porthcawl, Wales DUNYA MIKHAIL Dunya Mikhail was born in 1965 and educated at Baghdad University. She worked as Literary Editor for the Baghdad Observer. Facing increasing harassment from the authorities for her writings, Mikhail left her native Iraq in the 1990s, travelling first to Jordan, and then the US, where she studied Near Eastern Studies at Wayne State University. She speaks and writes in Arabic, Aramaic and English. In 2001, she was awarded the UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. She has published four collections in Arabic, and one lyrical, multi-genre text, The Diary of a Wave Outside the Sea. Publication The War Works Hard (2006) Local Interest: Michigan, USA DAVID MORLEY David Morley read Zoology at Bristol University and pursued research on acid rain. With Jeremy Treglown he founded the Writing Programme in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, where he develops and teaches new practices in scientific as well as creative writing and theatre writing. He has received several awards for his teaching, including a National Teaching Fellowship. He reviews poetry for the Guardian. Publications: The Invisible Kings (2007), Scientific Papers (2002) Local Interest: Warwick & Blackpool, England KEI MILLER Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in He read English at the University of the West Indies and completed an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. His first collection of short fiction, The Fear of Stones, was short-listed in 2007 for the Commonwealth Writers First Book Prize, and his first novel, The Same Earth (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) appeared in His first poetry collection, Kingdom of Empty Bellies (2006), was published by Heaventree Press. He is the editor of Carcanet's New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology. He has been a visiting writer at York University in Canada, and the Department of Library Services in the British Virgin Islands and a Vera Ruben Fellow at Yaddo. He currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. Forthcoming Publication: A Light Song of Light (July 2010) Publications: There is an Anger That Moves (2007), New Caribbean Poetry (ed.)(2007) Local Interest: Glasgow, Scotland MERVYN MORRIS Mervyn Morris was born in Jamaica in 1937 and studied at the University College of the West Indies and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. In 1992 he was a UK Arts Council Visiting Writer-in-Residence at the Southbank Centre. His previous collections include The Pond, Shadowboxing, Examination Centre and On Holy Week; he also edited The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories. He lives in Kingston, Jamaica, where he is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing & West Indian Literature. Publications: I been there, sort of: New and Selected Poems (2006) Local Interest: Kingston, Jamaica

7 LES MURRAY Les Murray was born in 1938 and grew up on a dairy farm at Bunyah on the north coast of New South Wales, where he still lives. He studied at Sydney University and later worked as a translator at the Australian National University and as an officer in the Prime Minister's Department. He is the first Australian poet to achieve international acclaim without expatriation. Murray first visited Europe in the sixties, and has returned frequently since then to give poetry readings. He received the T.S. Eliot Prize for Subhuman Redneck Poems and was awarded the Queen s Gold Medal for Poetry in Publications: The Biplane Houses (2006), New Collected Poems (2003), Learning Human: New Selected Poems: (2001), Fredy Neptune (1999), Subhuman Redneck Poems (1996), Translations from the Natural World (1993) Local Interest: Sydney & New South Wales, Australia TOGARA MUZANENHAMO Togara Muzanenhamo was born to Zimbabwean parents in Lusaka, Zambia in He was brought up in Zimbabwe, and then went on to study in The Hague and Paris. He became a journalist in Harare, Zimbabwe and worked for a film script production company. His work has appeared in magazines in Europe, South Africa and Zimbabwe, and was included in Carcanet's anthology New Poetries III. He is a tactile poet... agently erotic... tenderly lyrical. - John Greening, The Times Literary Supplement Publication: The Spirit Brides (2006) Local Interest: Norton, Zimbabwe NEIL POWELL Neil Powell, born in London in 1948, was educated at Sevenoaks School and the University of Warwick. He has taught English, owned a bookshop and is now a full-time author and editor. His books include six collections of poetry. He has written widely for magazines and newspapers; currently he reviews for the Sunday Telegraph and The Times Literary Supplement and contributes a regular column to PN Review. His critical biography Amis & Son: Two Literary Generations was published in May Publications: A Halfway House (2004), Collected Poems (2003) Local Interest: Suffolk, England TOM RAWORTH Tom Raworth was born in London in During the 1970s he travelled and worked in the United States and Mexico, returning to England in 1977 to be Resident Poet at King's College, Cambridge. Since 1966 he has published more than forty books and pamphlets of poetry, prose and translations. His graphic art has been shown in France, Italy, and the United States, and he has collaborated and performed with musicians, painters and other poets. In 1991 he was invited to teach at the University of Cape Town, the first European writer thus distinguished for thirty years. Forthcoming Publication: Windmills in Flames (June 2010) Publication: Collected Poems (2003) Local Interest: Cambridge & Brighton, England LUCY NEWLYN Lucy Newlyn was born in Uganda, grew up in Leeds, and read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is now Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford University, and a Fellow of St Edmund Hall. She has published widely on English Romantic Literature, including three books with Oxford University Press. Her book Reading, Writing and Romanticism: The Anxiety of Reception (OUP, 2000) won the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay prize in Married with a daughter and two step-children, she lives in Oxford, and is currently working on the writings of Edward Thomas. She has co-edited two volumes on Creative Writing in Academic Practice, and some of her poems appeared in the 2001 Oxford Poets Anthology. Publication: Ginnel (2005) Local Interest: Oxford & Leeds, England JOHN REDMOND John Redmond was born in Dublin in After completing a D.Phil on contemporary poetry at Oxford, he taught for two years at Macalester College in Minnesota. Currently, he is a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool. He reviews poetry widely and was associated with the poetry magazine, Thumbscrew. He is the author of How to Write a Poem (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005). His collection Thumb s Width was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Publications: MUDe (2008), Thumb s Width (2001) Local Interest: Liverpool, England; Dublin, Ireland

8 Photo credit: Wolfgang Schlag Poets for Readings PETER RILEY Peter Riley was born in 1940 in Stockport, Cheshire. He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and the universities of Keele and Sussex. He has taught at the University of Odense (Denmark). Since 1975 he has lived as a freelance writer, English teacher and bookseller, in both the Peak District and in Cambridge. Publications: Alstonefield: A Poem (2003), Passing Measures (2000), Longings of the Acrobats (1990) Local Interest: Cambridge, England ROBERT SAXTON Robert Saxton was born in Nottingham in 1952 and studied at Magdalen College, Oxford. He lives in London, and is currently the editorial director of an illustrated book publishing company. His first collection of poetry, The Promise Clinic, was published by Enitharmon in He is represented in Carcanet's 2001 Oxford Poets Anthology. In 2001 he won the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association's poetry prize for 'The Nightingale Broadcasts'. Publications: Local Honey (2007), Manganese (2003) Local Interest: London & Oxford, England PETER SANSOM Peter Sansom was born in 1958 in Nottinghamshire. For ten years he taught at Huddersfield University, and more recently he was Fellow in Creative Writing at Leeds University. He is currently the director of the Poetry Business and editor of The North Magazine and Smith/Doorstop Books. He has won an Arts Council Literature Award and similar awards from the Society of Authors and the Royal Literature Fund. His books have earned admiring reviews and a loyal following. He has been commissioned to write poems for the Guardian, the Observer, BBC Radio 3, and The Big Breakfast. Publications: The Last Place on Earth (2006), Point of Sale (2000), January (1994), Everything You ve Heard Is True (1990) Local Interest: Sheffield, England EVELYN SCHLAG Evelyn Schlag was born and raised in Waidhofen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria. She studied German and English literature at the University of Vienna, and taught in Vienna for a time before returning to Waidhofen, where she divides her time between teaching and writing. She has written seven volumes of prose fiction, a book of essays, and five collections of her own poetry. Her Selected Poems have been translated by Karen Leeder, a Fellow and Tutor in German at New College Oxford. Leeder s translations of Evelyn Schlag's Selected Poems won the 2005 Schlegel-Tieck Prize for Translation. Publication: Selected Poems (2004) Local Interest: Waidhofen, Austria JOACHIM SARTORIUS Joachim Sartorius was born 1946 in Furth, Franconia, grew up in Tunis, and studied law and political science in Munich, London and Paris. He served as a diplomat in New York, Istanbul, Prague and Nicosia until After holding various positions in the field of international cultural policy, he acted as head of the Goethe Institute and (since 2001) has been Director General of the Berlin Festivals. He has received grants from the DAAD, the Rockefeller Foundation and Collegium Hungaricum, won the Scheerbart prize for his translations of contemporary American poetry (1998), and is a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature, Darmstadt. Sartorius holds a professorship at the University of Arts in Berlin, where he teaches cultural theory. Publication: Ice Memory: Selected Poems (2006) Local Interest: Berlin, Germany SCUPHAM PETER Peter Scupham was born in Liverpool in 1933 and studied at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He founded The Mandeville Press with John Mole, and he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has ten previous collections of poetry published by Oxford University Press and Anvil. He now lives in Norfolk and runs a catalogue book business with Margaret Steward. Publications: Collected Poems (2002), Out Late (1999), Ark (1999), Selected Poems (1999), Watching the Perseids (1999), Air Show (1999) Local Interest: Norfolk, England

9 JON STALLWORTHY Jon Stallwothy, born in 1935, was educated at Rugby, in the Royal West African Frontier Force, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize of Poetry. A Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature, he is a Professor of English Literature at Oxford. He has published seven books of poetry. His biography of Wilfred Owen won the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the W.H. Smith Literary Award, and the E.M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He recently published a life of Louis MacNeice. He has edited Owen's Complete Poems and Fragments, Henry Reed's Collected Poems, and several anthologies. Publications: Body Language (2004), Selected Poems (2000), Rounding the Horn (1998) Local Interest: Oxford, England JEFFREY WAINWRIGHT Jeffrey Wainwright was born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1944 and was educated locally and at the University of Leeds. He has taught at the University of Wales, Long Island University, in Brooklyn and for many years at the Manchester Metropolitan University where he was Professor of English until Jeffrey Wainwright has written many articles and reviews on poetry and two books of criticism, Poetry: The Basics (2004) and Acceptable Words: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill (2005), and has translated plays by Péguy, Corneille and Koltès for radio and stage. Publications: Clarity or Death! (2008), Out of the Air (1999) The Red-Headed Pupil (1994), The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc (1986), Selected Poems (1985) Local Interest: Manchester, England CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE Chris Wallace-Crabbe was born in After graduating in English, he became Lockie Fellow in Australian Literature and Creative Writing, Melbourne University, from 1961 to He was Harkness Fellow at Yale University, , Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard, , and visiting Professor at the University of Venice, 1973 and Chris Wallace-Crabbe chairs the Australian Poetry Centre in St Kilda, Victoria and is also a commentator on the visual arts, specialising in artists' books. Among other awards, he has won the Dublin Prize for Arts and Sciences and the Christopher Brennan Award for Literature. Since his retirement he has been Professor Emeritus in the Australian Centre, the University of Melbourne. Publications: Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw (2008), By and Large (1999), Selected Poems (1999) Local Interest: Melbourne, Australia CLIVE WILMER Clive Wilmer was born in Harrogate in 1945, grew up in London and was educated at King's College, Cambridge. He now teaches English at Cambridge, where he is a Bye-Fellow of Fitzwilliam College. An authority on Ruskin, Clive Wilmer has edited selections of Ruskin, William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He is also a director of the Guild of St George (founded by Ruskin). He has edited the essays of Thom Gunn and Donald Davie. With George Gomori, he has translated widely from modern Hungarian poetry, notably the works of Miklós Radnóti and György Petri. An occasional broadcaster, he fronted BBC Radio 3's Poet of the Month programmes. He is a frequent contributor to The Times Literary Supplement and PN Review. Publications: The Mystery of Things (2006), Selected Poems (1995), Of Earthly Paradise (1992) Local Interest: Cambridge, England GREGORY WOODS Gregory Woods was born in Egypt in 1953 and grew up in Ghana. He began his teaching career at the University of Salerno and now works at Nottingham Trent University, where he was appointed Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies in His was the first such appointment in the United Kingdom. He was awarded a PhD by the University of East Anglia in 1983, and a D.Litt in In addition to his poetry collections, he is also the author of a number of critical books, including Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-eroticism and Modern Poetry (1987) and A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (1998), both from Yale University Press. He has been a member of the board of directors of East Midlands Arts and is a Fellow of the English Association. Publications: Quidnunc (2007), The District Commissioner s Dreams (2002), May I Say Nothing (1998), We Have the Melon (1992) Local Interest: Nottingham, England JANE YEH Jane Yeh was born in the United States in 1971 and educated at Harvard University. She holds Master's degrees from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Manchester Metropolitan University. Metre Editions published her chapbook, Teen Spies, in She is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Marabou was shortlisted for the Forward and Whitbread Prizes. She contributes articles on books and sport to The Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, The Village Voice, and Time Out (New York). Publication: Maribou (2005) Local Interest: London, England