Contributors A-D
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Sam Adams's many publications in the field of Welsh writing in English include three monographs in the Writers of Wales series, the most recent of which was on Thomas Jeffrey Llewelyn Prichard (UWP, 2000). He is the editor of Seeing Wales Whole: Essays on the Literature of Wales (UWP, 1998) and of Roland Mathias's Collected Short Stories (UWP, 2001) and Collected Poems (UWP, 2002).
Moniza Alvi has published five books of poetry, two with Oxford University Press and three with Bloodaxe. The most recent is How the Stone Found Its Voice, 2005. She tutors for the Poetry School, and has recently gained a Diploma in Group-Analytic Skills from the Westminster Pastoral Foundation.
Robert Archambeau is Professor of English at Lake Forest. His books include Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias and a volume of poetry, Home and Variations, from Salt (2004).
John Ashbery has published more than twenty collections of poetry, including, most recently, Chinese Whispers and Where Shall I Wander. His Selected Prose was published in 2004 by Carcanet. Since 1990 he has been the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Cliff Ashby's Plainsong: Collected Poems 1960-1985 was published by Carcanet in 1985.
John Brian Aspinall was born in Rochdale but has lived in Gascony since 1991. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines and he has had two novels published.
German poet and broadcaster Michael Augustin at Radio Bremen hosts a regular poetry program and edits the weekly radio documentary. He is the author of many volumes of poetry, drama and short prose. He translates poetry and drama (Kenneth Koch, Pearse Hutchinson, Simon Gray, Raymond Carver and others). He has received the Friedrich-Hebbel-Prize and the Kurt- Magnus-Prize. He most recent collection of poetry, Kleines Brimborium, was published in 2003.
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Christopher Bakken is the author of two books of poetry: Goat Funeral (forthcoming from Sheep Meadow Press in 2006) and After Greece (2001). He is co-translator of The Lions' Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios, forthcoming from Truman State University Press. He lives in Pennsylvania.
Iain Bamforth is a doctor and scientific translator. In addition to his books of poetry with Carcanet, Sons and Pioneers and Open Workings, Verso publish his literary history of medicine The Body in the Library.
Peter Barry is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and co-editor of English. His books include Contemporary British Poetry and the City (2000), Beginning Theory (2002), and Literature in Contexts (2007), all Manchester University Press, English in Practice (2003, Edward Arnold), and Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court (Salt, 2006).
Jennifer L. Bauman is a research and editorial assistant for The Charles Willson Peale Family Papers at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC.
Heather Beck teaches in The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her novel, Home is Where, described as 'the Mrs Dalloway for the 21st Century' was published by Comma in 2003. She is currently editing a book on creative writing pedagogy (Palgrave MacMillan).
Vicki Bertram teaches English and Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her books include Kicking Daffodils: essays on 20thcentury women poets (Edinburgh University Press, 1997) and Gendering Poetry: contemporary women and men poets (Rivers Oram Pandora, 2005)
Tom Bishop is Professor of English at the University of Auckland, where he teaches Renaissance literature and drama. He has translated Ovid's Amores (Carcanet, 2003) and written variously on Shakespeare, Jonson, Elizabethan music, and Australian literature. He is currently writing on Shakespeare and the Bible and translating Tibullus.
Peter Bland worked as a talks producer for the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation. He published his first book of poems in 1964 and became closely associated with the Wellington Group which included James K. Baxter and Louis Johnson. He returned to Britain in 1970 where his books were published by London Magazine Editions. Carcanet publish his Selected Poems.
Alison Brackenbury's latest collection of poems is Bricks and Ballads (Carcanet, 2004). New poems can be seen on her website, www.alisonbrackenbury.co.uk.
Matías Serra Bradford (Buenos Aires, 1969) is a writer, translator and literary critic. He is currently editing and translating an anthology of British poetry.
Marcia Brennan is Associate Professor of Art History at Rice University in Houston, Texas. A scholar of modern and contemporary art, her books include Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics (2001, 2002); Modernism's Masculine Subjects: Matisse, The New York School, and Post-Painterly Abstraction (2004), and a forthcoming study entitled Curating Consciousness: Mysticism and the Modern Museum.
Diana Bridge's fourth book of poems, Red Leaves, was published last year. She has lived in India and China and has a background in Chinese literature. She is working now on the China-based poems of New Zealand writer, Robin Hyde.
Zoë Brigley is a part-time tutor at the University of Warwick where she is writing her PhD thesis on contemporary Welsh women poets. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003, which used to travel and work in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. She is currently finishing her own first collection of poetry.
Geoffrey Brock is the translator of Cesare Pavese's Disaffections: Complete Poems 1930-1950, as well as forthcoming books by Roberto Calasso and Umberto Eco. His own poems appear widely in the US in journals and anthologies.
Carmen Bugan is a Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxord, where she runs a public lecture series entitled 'Poets as Translators'. She is finishing her second collection of poems, The House of Straw and working on the memoir Burying the Typewriter. Her first collection of poems, Crossing the Carpathians, was published in 2004 (Oxford Poets).
Olivier Burckhardt, a Fellow of the Swiss Institute in Rome, is a Swiss-Australian poet and writer. Currently he is working on some translations of Italian fiction and poetry.
Stephen Burt's books include Popular Music (poems) and Randall Jarrell and his Age. A second book of poems, Parallel Play, will appear from Graywolf Press in the USA in 2006. He teaches at Macalester College in St Paul, Minnesota.
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Angus Calder lives in Edinburgh. He was Reader in Literature and Cultural Studies with the Open University in Scotland and has since published four collections of verse, of which the latest is Dipa's Bowl (Aark Arts, 2004). He is also known as a historian and essayist on Scottish history and culture.
Roger Caldwell has contributed to numerous literary journals. His poetry book This Being Eden was published by Peterloo in 2001.
Christian Campbell is a poet, cultural critic and journalist from the Bahamas and Trinidad and Tobago. He read English and taught at Balliol College, oxford, and is currently completing a PhD at Duke University. His work is being widely published and his manuscript collection Running the Dusk was recently named by Sonia Sanchez as among the finalists for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize.
Linda Chase publishes poems in many UK journals and teaches part time at Manchester Metropolitan University and for the Poetry School. She also leads residential courses in Crete and Spain, often combining Tai Chi with poetry. She is Course Director for the Tai Chi and Chi Kung Forum for Health. Her latest book is The Wedding Spy (Carcanet).
The Danish writer Inger Christensen, born in 1935, has written poetry, drama, experimental novels, essays and children's books. But it is for her poetry, the first collection of which was published in 1962, that she has become known. Her major collections are Det (It, 1969), Alfabet (Alphabet, 1981) and Sommerfugledalen (The Valley of Butterflies, 1991).
Heather Clark is Assistant Professor of Literature at Marlboro College in Vermont. She is the author of The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972 (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Michelle Cliff's latest work is the essay collection Apocalypso.
David Constantine has published half a dozen volumes of verse, the most recent being his Collected Poems (Bloodaxe). He is a translator of Holderlin, Goethe and Brecht, and an editor of Oxford Poets and of Modern Poetry in Translation.
Swithun Cooper’s work has appeared in several publications including the London Magazine, The Times Educational Supplement, Phoenix New Writing (Heaventree Press) and New Poetries III (Carcanet). He won the Ilkley Literature Festival Poetry Prize in 2007.
Alfred Corn's most recent volumes of poetry are Contradictions (2002) and Stake: Selected Poems, 1972-1992 (2000). He currently holds the Amy Clampitt residency in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Bill Coyle lives in Boston, Massachusetts. His poetry has appeared in the Hudson Review, Poetry (Chicago) and the New Republic.
Joyce Crick taught German at University College London for many years. Since her retirement she has translated a variety of texts, including Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1st edition) for Oxford World's Classics, which was awarded the Schlegel-Tieck prize for 2000, and, most recently, a selection of Grimm's Tales, also for Oxford.
Claire Crowther's poems have been published in various british and American journals. A pamphlet of her poems was published by Flarestack Press. She has an MPhil in Creative Writing (Poetry) from the University of Glamorgan and is undertaking a PhD at Kingston University.
Peter Czipott, physicist, is Manager of Magnetic Sensing programs at Quantum Magnetics, Inc., a subsidiary of GE Security in San Diego, California. His work has appeared in technical journals such as Science and Proceedings of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers. With John Ridland he translated George Faludy's "Ode to Hungarian," which appeared in Literary Imagination. He was born in the United States to Hungarian immigrant parents.
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Peter Davidson is Professor of English and Historian of the University's Collections at the University of Aberdeen. His study of the north in art and literature, The Idea of North, is published by Reaktion Books.
Damian Walford Davies lectures in the English Department at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. A co-authored collection of poetry, Whiteout, was published by Parthian in 2006. A second collection entitled Suit of Lights is forthcoming from Seren.
Alex Davis is Senior Lecturer in Modern English at University College Cork. He is currently co-editing The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry.
William Virgil Davis has published three books of poetry: One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize; The Dark Hours, which won the Calliope Press Chapbook Prize; Winter Light. He has published poems in Poetry, The Nation, The Hudson Review, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The New Criterion, The Sewanee Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Denver Quarterly, and Shenandoah, among many other periodicals. He has also published several books of literary criticism, as well as critical essays in numerous periodicals. He is Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Baylor University.
John F. Deane is a founder of Poetry Ireland, the national poetry society, and its journal thePoetry Ireland Review. His recent collections include Toccata and Fugue and Manhandling the Deity (shortlisted for T.S.Eliot award in 2003). He is a member of Aosdána, Ireland's arts academy.
Greg Delanty teaches at St. Michael’s College, Vermont. He is politically active and ran for the Green Party in the US elections. His most recent books are The Ship of Birth (2003), The Blind Stitch and The Hellbox (1998). His Collected Poems 1986-2006 is recently out, also from the Oxford Poet’s series of Carcanet Press.
John Dent-Young taught at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and elsewhere in Asia, and with his son Alex translated (under the general title The Marshes of Mount Liang) the full 120-chapter version of the Chinese classical novel Shuihu Zhuan, or Water Margin. He now works as a free-lance translator based in Bath. His Selected Poems of Luis de Góngora will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2007.
Maria-Daniella Dick is a Ph.D. student at the University of Glasgow, researching literary authority in Joyce and Dante.
Josephine Dickinson was born in London. Following a childhood illness, she became profoundly deaf overnight at the age of six. She read Classics at Oxford, taught music and developed a career as a composer under the tutelage of Michael Finnissy, Richard Barret and others. In 1994 she moved to Alston, a remote town high in the Cumbrian Pennines. Her first book, Scarberry Hill (The Rialto), was published in 2001 and was followed by The Voice (Flambard, 2004) and Silence Fell (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).
Ian Dieffenthaller is Trinidadian British. He trained as an architect at Bristol University and is completing a thesis on West Indian British poetry at Birmingham University.
Denis Donoghue is University Professor and Henry James Professor of English and American Letters at New York University. His most recent books are Speaking of Beauty (2003) and The American Classics (2005), both published by Yale University Press.
Richard Dove has published poems in German and English and translated and edited a wide range of (mainly German) poets.
Valerie Duff is the coordinator for PEN New England. Her poetry and reviews have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Antioch Review, Harvard Review, PN Review, and elsewhere.
Sasha Dugdale's first collection Notebook was published by Carcanet/OxfordPoets.
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