John Freeman
John Freeman was born in Essex, grew up in south London and lived in Yorkshire before settling in Wales; he studied at Cambridge and has taught English Literature at Cardiff University since 1972, and from 1983, Creative Writing. Articles, essays and reviews in particular on Shelley, nineteenth century literature and modern poetry, have been widely published. A Suite for Summer is his ninth collection and his first since Landscape with Portraits in 1999.
Elizabeth Cook
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 appeared in many journals including Agenda, The London Review of Books, Poetry London, Standand Tears in the Fence. She was a Hawthornden fellow in 2003 and has recently written the libretto for Francis Grier’s The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth, jointly commissioned by Vocal Essence in Minneapolis and the BBC.
Iain Sinclair
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.
Clive Wilmer
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 anthologised the writings of John Ruskin,William Morris and D.G. Rossetti. His critical writings appear in several periodicals, notably the TLS and PN Review. Other publications include Cambridge Observed: An Anthologyand Poets Talking, a collection of BBC interviews with contemporary poets.
Andy Brown
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 2002. He edited the highly praised Binary Mythsand Binary Myths 2(Stride) and is the founding editor of Maquette Press.
David Morley
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 published by Prest Roots; another, Scientific Papers, is to be published by Carcanet in 2002.
Anthony Wilson
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 whom he co-edited The Poetry Book for Primary Schools (Poetry Society, 1998), .an inspirational compilation. according to the Times Educational Supplement. He has read his work at venues across the UK, including: ICA, The Troubadour Café, The Poetry Place, Tate Britain, Tate St Ives, The Lowry Centre and The Arvon Foundation. He lectures on Tate Britain.s Speaking Pictures and Visual Paths programmes, and is a trainer for the Poetry Society.s poetryclass team.
Peter Kane Dufault
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, pollster and, in 1968, he was a candidate for US Congress, running on the Liberal Party’s anti-Vietnam war platform; he is known locally as a fiddler, banjo-player and dance-caller. Poems have appeared in many magazines, including the New Yorker and London Magazine, and anthologies, including the 1996 Norton Anthology. He is well known for his live performances and has twice been Visiting Poet at the Cheltenham Festival.
Peter Robinson
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) and About Time Too (2001). His translations, many in collaboration with Marcus Perryman, include Selected Poems of Vittorio Sereni (1990). A literary manifesto, Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen is published by Oxford University Press this year.
Joseph Woods
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 Poetry Ireland since 2001.
Beverley Bie Brahic
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), Poetry Review, PoetryWales, The Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere.
Peter Carpenter
was born in 1957 in Ewell, Surrey and now lives and works in Kent. He read English at Pembroke College, Cambridge and has taught English and Drama since 1980. His poems and critical articles have appeared in many publications including The English Review, The Independent, P.N. Review, Poetry Wales and The Rialto.
Kevin Jackson
is a writer, critic, broadcaster, researcher and journalist. His recent books include Invisible Forms - a guide to literary curiosities (Picador); The Oxford Book of Money, The Humphrey Jennings Film Reader (Carcanet). His Radio 3 programme on Ruskin - ‘People Be Good‘ was broadcast in January 2000. Recent television includes a two part documentary ‘The Burgess Variations‘ for BBC 2.
