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 Keatsand 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 have [...]

is now firmly established as one of the most dazzlingly gifted and important of contemporary British writers. His work encompasses poetry, Lud Heat, fiction, Radon Daughters, Landor.s Tower, and documentary prose, including his best-selling Lights Out For the Territory and his most recent 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 is to be published by Arc in [...]

read Zoology at Bristol University, gained a fellowship from the Freshwater Biological Association and pursued research. 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. A sequence, Ludus Coventriae, is [...]

was born in 1964 and works as a lecturer, poet in schools and writing tutor for adults. 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 for Apples and Snakes Poets, The Aldeburgh Poetry Trust and The Poetry Society, for [...]

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) [...]

was born in Drogheda in 1966. He studied science and holds an MA in Creative Writing (Lancaster University). Widely published, he has read as far afield as Russia and India. In 2000 he won the Patrick Kavanagh Award. His first collection, Sailing to Hokkaido was published by Worple Press (2001). He has been Director of [...]

lives in Paris. She is the translator of works by Apollinaire, Ponge, Jacques Roubaud and Hélène Cixous, whose Portrait of Jacques Derrida as a Young Jewish Saintwas published by Columbia University Press in 2004. The recipient of a Canada Council for the Arts Emerging Writer Grant, her poems have appeared in Ambit, Canadian Literature, Poetry(Chicago), [...]