was born in Gibraltar in 1952, spent her childhood in Nigeria and Dorset, and now lives in East London. She is the editor of the Oxford Authors John Keats and author of Achilles (Methuen and Picador USA), a work of fiction acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. Her poetry, short fiction and critical reviews [...]

is now firmly established as one of the most dazzlingly gifted and important of contemporary British writers. His wide-ranging recent work encompasses poetry (The Ebbing of Kraft, Saddling the Rabbit), fiction (Landor’s Tower, Dining on Stones), and documentary prose, including his best-selling Lights Out For the Territory and his M25 epic London Orbital.

was born in 1945, grew up in London and studied at Cambridge where he still lives and teaches. Four collections of his poetry have been published by Carcanet Press. A freelance writer and lecturer, he has co-translated the Hungarian poets György Petri and Miklós Radnóti, edited prose works by Thom Gunn and Donald Davie and [...]

is Lecturer in Creative Writing and Arts at the University of Exeter, and Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation at Totleigh Barton in Devon. He is the author of two collections, The Wanderer’s Prayer (Arc) and West of Yesterday (Stride), and two pamphlets of poetry; From a Cliff was published by Arc in 2002. [...]

read Zoology at Bristol University, gained a fellowship from the Freshwater Biological Association and pursued research on acid rain. He co-founded the Writing Programme at the University of Warwick, of which he is now director, and develops and teaches new practices in scientific and creative writing. He co-edited The New Poetry for Bloodaxe and authored [...]

was born in 1964 and works as a lecturer, poet in schools and writing tutor for adults, as well as Primary PGCE Programme Director at the University of Exeter. He has published two volumes of poetry: How Far From Here is Home? (Stride, 1996) and The Difference (Aldeburgh Poetry Trust, 1999). He has held residences [...]

was born in 1923, grew up in Westchester County, N.Y., and studied at Harvard; he now lives and writes in a cabin he built in Hillsdale, New York State. He graduated in 1947 and the first of his books of verse was published in 1954. He has been variously employed as tree-surgeon, journalist, teacher, house-painter, [...]

was born in 1953 in the North of England. Since 1989 he has taught in Japan, at present in Sendai, where he lives with his wife and their two daughters. His five books of poetry are Overdrawn Account (1980), This Other Life (1988), which won the Cheltenham Prize, Entertaining Fates (1992), Lost and Found (1997) [...]