Contributors

John Ashbery's most recent collection of poems is Planisphere (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2009). His Collected Poems 1956-1987 was published in 2008 by Library of America, and his translation of Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations was recently published by Norton. The first solo exhibition of his collages was held in 2008 at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery (New York), where his new collages will be on exhibition from October 20 until December 3, 2011. Ashbery is the 2011 recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

Sebastian Barker was Chairman of the Poetry Society from 1988 to 1992, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was Editor of The London Magazine from 2002 to 2008. He has published many collections of poetry and essays about poetry, including Guarding the Border: Selected Poems (Enitharmon, 1992); The Dream of Intelligence (Littlewood Arc, 1992); Damnatio Memoriae: Erased from Memory (Enitharmon 2004); The Matter of Europe (Menard 2005); and The Erotics of God (Smokestack 2005).

Michael Bartholomew-Biggs is a mathematician. He is also poetry editor of the on-line magazine London Grip

(http://londongrip.co.uk/) and co-organiser of Poetry in the Crypt at St Mary's church, Islington. His latest poetry collection is Tradesman's Exit (Shoestring, 2009). See http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/mikebartholomewbiggsbiog.html

Caroline Clark's poems and essays have appeared in Poetry Review, Agenda, The North, Smiths Knoll, The Malahat Review and elsewhere. She was born in Lewes, lived in Moscow for eight years, and now lives in Montreal, where she's translating work by Olga Sedakova which will be published in a book soon.

Martyn Crucefix's most recent collection, Hurt, was published by Enitharmon. His translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies (Enitharmon, 2006) was shortlisted for the 2007 Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation. His translation of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus will be published in 2012. For more visit http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/martyncrucefixpage.html

Peter Daniels has published a number of pamphlets, most recently Mr Luczinski Makes a Move from HappenStance in 2011. Mulfran Press will be publishing a full collection, Counting Eggs, in April 2012, and his translations from the Russian of Vladislav Khodasevich will be published by Angel Books later in 2012.

A bilingual writer born in Edinburgh, Stella W.H. Dick has been a long-time resident of Argentina, where she lived through the military dictatorship of 1976-83 (A Cantata for the Disappeared awaits a composer). Her work in Spanish includes film scripts and two collections of short stories (both published in Buenos Aires). Her work in English includes three novels, poetry and a play.

John Donlan is a poetry editor with Brick Books and a librarian at the Vancouver Public Library. His collections of poetry are Domestic Economy (Brick Books, 1990, reprinted 1997), Baysville (House of Anansi Press, 1993), Green Man (Ronsdale Press, 1999), and Spirit Engine (Brick Books, 2008).

Robert Etty lives in Lincolnshire. His poetry has been widely published in magazines (The Rialto, Frogmore Papers, Poetry Review, The North, Other Poetry, Literary Review). His most recent collections are Half a Field's Distance: New and Selected Poems (Shoestring Press) and The Horncastle Executioner (Nunny Books).

Peter Eustace was born in Birmingham, England, in 1954, and he has lived in Italy for thirty-five years. His poems have appeared in Equinox, The French Literary Review, Borderlines, Carillon, Trespass, erbacce and Obsessed with Pipework. He has published two books of poems in English and Italian, Vistas (2006) and Weathering (2010), and an English-only pamphlet, Brink (2009) with erbacce press, Liverpool.

Barry Fantoni's next book, a crime novel set in Miami called Harry Lipkin P.I., will feature the world's oldest detective. It is due to be published by Polygon in the UK and Doubleday in the USA in 2012, and it will also be available as an audio book.

According to Christopher Middleton, Leah Fritz writes 'poetry which is always enjoyable for its intelligence, wit, satirical sting and freshness of wording.' Helena Nelson, in Ambit, concurs: 'She combines movement, form, feeling and thought ―and bingo ― what a stunning effect!' Salmon will be publishing Whatever Sends the Music into Time: New and Selected Poems in May, 2012.

Michael Glover is a poet and critic who writes regularly on literature and the visual arts for the Independent, the Financial Times, The Economist, and The Times of London. He is a London correspondent for ArtNews, New York, and the poetry editor of The Tablet. His poetry collections are: Measured Lives, Impossible Horizons, A Small Modicum of Folly, The Bead-Eyed Man, Amidst all this Debris and For the Sheer Hell of Living (San Marco Press, 2008). A novel, The Trapper, was published in 2008. His latest collection of poetry, Only So Much, has just been published by Savage Poets Collective, as has Headlong into Pennilessness, a memoir of his early life. He is the founding editor of The Bow-Wow Shop. Alec Gordon writes: A horse given nothing to eat but wheat straw will die of starvation, digestion costing more than the nutritional return. Poets should remember this.

John Greening received a Cholmondeley Award in 2008. His most recent books are Poetry Masterclass - a guide to the craft of verse, a study of Elizabethan love poets, and Hunts: Poems 1979-2009, all from Greenwich Exchange. His collection, To the War Poets, is due from OxfordPoets/Carcanet in 2013.

Kerry Hardie has published five full collections of poetry with the Gallery Press, Ireland, the most recent being Only This Room. Her Selected Poems were published by Gallery and also by Bloodaxe [UK] in March, 2011. She has published two novels, and is still trying to finish a third. She has won prizes, and been quite widely translated.

Jason Heroux is the author of two poetry collections, Memoirs of an Alias and Emergency Hallelujah, both published by Mansfield Press, and a novella entitled Good Evening, Central Laundromat (Quattro Books, 2010) which was shortlisted for the 2011 Relit Novel Award. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.

Pavol Janík (b. 1956) is a poet, dramatist, critic, and translator. He was the chair of the Slovak Writers' Association from 2003 to 2007 and later its general Secretary. Currently he is the chief editor of Literárný týždenník, Slovakia's leading literary weekly. In addition to works for the theatre and radio, he has published dozens of critical articles and more than ten collections of his poetry, including selections translated into Russian, Croat and Bulgarian.

Judith Kazantzis has published eight poetry collections and a Selected Poems, 1977-92. Recent books include Just After Midnight and The Odysseus Poems: Fictions on The Odyssey (reissued Waterloo 2010); also a Homeric translation In Cyclops Cave. Waterloo will publish her playtext Sex Lies and Odysseus. She is a Cholmondeley Award winner.

Dominic McLoughlin was runner up in the National Poetry Competition in 2005, and he has been published in Poetry Review and Days of Roses Anthology. He is studying for a PhD at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and writing a critical thesis on poetic influence in Elizabeth Bishop, May Swenson and Mark Doty.

Christopher Middleton has lived in Austin, Texas since 1966 but, travelling far and wide, he has not ceased to be an English poet. For thirty years he has published poems, essays and translations with Carcanet Press. Born in Truro in 1926 and educated at Merton College, Oxford, he has been a member of the Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, since 1972. His Collected Poems appeared from Carcanet in 2008. His latest collection, Poems 2006-2009, was published by Shearsman in 2010. 130 Poems (Anvil Press), his translations of Jean Follain, were also published in that year.

Philip Morre lives and works in Venice. He has published After Fra Angelico e altre poesie (La Spina, 2009), Here's to the Home Country (Rack Press, 2010). Eric Ormsby is the author of seven poetry collections and two volumes of essays on poetry and translation. The Baboons of Hada, his most recent collection, was published by Carcanet in May of this year. Fine Incisions: Essays on Poetry and Place appeared in January 2011. His work has been published widely in the U.K., Canada and the U.S. in such magazines as The New Yorker, Poetry Ireland, Descant and The Paris Review, and his work is included in The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Reviewers have described him variously as 'a stubbornly unfashionable poet' and as displaying 'a fine taste for rot', both of which characterizations he considers high praise.

Paul Rossiter was born in Cornwall and has lived in Tokyo since 1981. He has published three books of poetry with small presses in Japan:In Daylight (Printed Matter, 1995), Monumenta Nipponica (Saru, 1995), and The Painting Stick (Pine Wave, 2005).

Stewart Sanderson was born in Glasgow twenty-one years ago. This year he graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and he is currently a research student in the Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He writes in Scots and English, and has had poetry published in both languages. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Literateur, Lallans, Other Poetry, Erbacce and The Interpreter's House.

Born in Oberammergau in 1947, Norm Sibum has lived in Germany, Alaska, Missouri, Utah, and Washington. He has been a Montréaler since 1994. He founded the Vancouver Review in 1989 and has published several collections of poetry in Canada, and in England with Carcanet Press, including Smoke and Lilacs (2009. His Girls and Handsome Dogs (Porcupine's Quill, 2002) won the Quebec Writer's Federation A.M. Klein Award for Poetry. The Pangborn Defense (Biblioasis, 2008) was short-listed for the same award.

James and Viera Sutherland-Smith are the leading translators of Slovak poetry into English, having translated more than ninety poets, published three major anthologies, and made individual selections from Ján Buzassy, Mila Haugová, Ivan Laucík and Milan Rúfus. James has also published five collections of his own poetry, the most recent being Popeye in Belgrade from Carcanet.

Helen Tookey's poems have been published in such magazines as PN Review, Poetry Wales, Stand, The Reader, New Walk and The Bow-Wow Shop. A short collection, Telling the Fractures, a collaboration with the photographer Alan Ward, appeared in 2008. A selection of her work has just appeared in New Poetries V (Carcanet, October 2011), and Carcanet will publish her first full-length collection in 2013. She is Associate Tutor in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University.

Ruth Valentine lives in Tottenham, North London. Her latest book is The Announced (part of Ellipsis 1, Sylph Editions, 2009). The next will be On the Saltmarsh, which is due out from Smokestack in late 2012.

Peter Wyton lives in Gloucester and favours deliberately neither the Page nor the Stage tendency in poetry, but keeps one foot planted firmly in each.