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Will Eaves is the author of two novels, The Oversight (2001), shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel Prize, and Nothing To Be Afraid Of (2005).
Ellie Evans was born in Carmarthen, West Wales, and educated at Llandeilo and Cardiff. She has taught in London, Austria and China. She now lives in Powys.
Landis Everson was born in 1926 in Coronado, California, and now lives in San Luis Obispo, California. He was a member of the Berkeley Renaissance of the late 1940s, and greatly admired by his friends Robert Duncan, Jack Spicer and Robin Blaser. While doing a Master's at Columbia in the early Fifties, he encountered John Ashbery, who also admired his poetry, and would later print some of his poems in Locus Solus. In 1960, he participated in a weekly poetry group with Spicer and Blaser in San Francisco, during which time he wrote two sequences, both of which were printed in their entirety for the first time last year in Ben Mazer's anthology of the Berkeley Renaissance in Fulcrum 3 (Everson's first appearance in print in over 40 years). Since his rediscovery in Fulcrum, Everson has broken four decades of silence to write more than 150 new poems, which have recently begun appearing in such periodicals as Poetry, American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Harvard Review, Chicago Review, Jacket and Fulcrum. A volume of new and collected poems, Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005, edited by Ben Mazer, is forthcoming.
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Aidan Fadden was born in 1972 in Birmingham and graduated with an MA in Modern Literary Studies from the Queen's University of Belfast. He is a poet, short story writer and reviewer and currently lives in Rome where he works as a teacher and translator.
Ruth Fainlight's Sugar-Paper Blue was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize in 1997. Her most recent book, Burning Wire, appeared in 2002, and a new collection, Moon Wheels will be published next year. She is currently working on a new version of Sophocles' Theban Plays.
Elaine Feinstein is a poet, novelist and biographer. Her versions of the poems of Marina Tsvetaeva were first published in 1971, and remain in prin. Her Collected Poems and Translations (2002) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her most recent biography is of of Anna Akhmatova, entitled Anna of all the Russias.
Mark Ford has published two collections of poetry, Landlocked and Soft Sift, and a study of the French writer Raymond Roussel. His anthology The New York Poets was published in 2004.
Nigel Forde is a broadcaster, poet and Emmy-winning screenwriter. In the North he runs a branch of the Poetry Society's Poetry School. His latest publication is A Map of the Territory OxfordPoets/Carcanet. He enjoys music, astronomy and planting trees.
Julia Forster works at a London-based literary agency and studied Creative Writing at the University of Warwick and St Andrews. She also has a strong interest in the sustainability and is the London Representative and Press Officer for the Schumacher Society.
Naomi Foyle is a widely published poet with an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths College. In 2005 she edited the posthumous collection Mairtin Crawford: Selected Poems (Lagan Press, Belfast).
Matthew Francis is the author of two collections of poems, Blizzard and Dragons , and a study of W.S. Graham, Where the People Are . He is also the editor of Graham's New Collected Poems . He was recently named as one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation Poets.
Andrew Frolish is a deputy head teacher of a primary school near Ipswich (though originally from Sheffield). His poems have been published in a variety of journals. He was recently awarded the Suffolk Poetry Society Crabbe Memorial Prize.
John Fuller's latest collections of poems are Now and for a Time (2002), shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and Ghosts (2004), shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. His Collected Poems appeared in 1996. His new novel, Flawed Angel, appeared in November 2005. He is now retired from teaching, and is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.
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Iain Galbraith's poems have appeared in PN Review, TLS and Best Scottish Poems 2005, his translations of German poetry in Irish Pages, Poetry Review, Chicago Review, TLS, Pretext and PN Review. In 2004 he was awarded the John Dryden Prize for Literary Translation.
John Gallas was born in New Zealand. He lives in Coalville. His latest publications are The Song Atlas and Star City (Carcanet).
Beatrice Garland works as a clinician in the National Health Service. She has been writing for 15 years, publishing in a number of magazines. In 2001 she won the National Poetry Competition and in 2002 the Strokestown International Poetry Prize. She is currently writing a first collection.
William Germano is dean of the faculty of humanities and social sciences at Cooper Union in New York City. He is the author, most recently, of From Dissertation to Book (University of Chicago Press, 2005).
David Gervais is an Honorary Fellow in English at the University of Reading and, over many years, an editor of The Cambridge Quarterly. He has written widely on English and French literature and on printing. His Literary Englands: Versions of 'Englishness' (Cambridge University Press) includes discussions of modern English poets. He is completing books on Shakespeare, on Racine and on the European novel.
Peter Gilmour was born in 1941 in Glasgow where he still lives. Now semi-retired, he has had stories and poems published in a range of magazines.
Yvonne Green's poems have been published in Poetry Review, Arete, Magma, London Magazine, Modern Poetry In Translation, P.E.N. and on BBC Radio 4 in Britain. She is a 2007 Smith Doorstop prize winner. She practised at the Bar in London and New York and is descended from Kundal Khon, the last Court poet of the Emir of Boukhara.
Ian Gregson's critical books have been concerned with contemporary poetry, postmodernism, and with representations of masculinity. His books include Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism: Dialogue and Estrangement (Macmillan 1996). The Male Image: Representaions of Masculinity in Post-War Poetry (Macmillan, 1999), and Postmodern Literature (Hodder Arnold, 2004)
Vona Groarke was born in Ireland in 1964. Her poetry collections with the Gallery Press in Ireland include Shale, (1994); Other People's Houses (1999) and Flight (2002), which was short-listed for the U.K's premier poetry prize, the Forward Prize. Flight and Earlier Poems was published in the U.S. by Wake Forest University Press in 2004. Recent magazine publications include The Times Literary Supplement, The New Republic, Ms Magazine and Metre Magazine. A frequent contributor to Irish National Radio, her work has also been featured twice on the Poetry Daily website. She currently co-holds the Heimbold Chair in Irish Studies at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.
Piotr Gwiazda is the author of Gagarin Street (Washington Writers' Publishing House). He teaches at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Piotr Gwiazda teaches modern and contemporary literature at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. His first book of poems, Gagarin Street , is published in 2005 by Washington Writers' Publishing House.
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Marilyn Hacker's new and selected poems, Essays on Departure, is forthcoming in the autumn in Carcanet's OxfordPoets. She is the author of Desperanto (Norton, 2003) and of several recent collections of translations, including Birds and Bison, poems by Claire Malroux, (Sheep Meadow Press, 2004). She lives in New York and Paris.
Sean Haldane is a poet, critic, translator and consultant neuropsychologist in the NHS. His most recent volumes are Lines from the Stone Age (poems) and a study of Thomas Hardy. His work in progress appears on his website: www.poem.sh.
Edmund Hardy writes essays and poems. He also curates the online poetry journal Intercapillary Space (www.intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com).
Martin Hayden was born in Bridgend in South Wales, but brought up in Dorset. He was educated at Exeter and Sussex, and has taught in New Zealand, Leicestershire, Staffordshire, and Suffolk, where he now lives.
The late John Heath-Stubbs was a critic, anthologist and translator as well as a poet. He received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and the prestigious St Augustine Cross. Carcanet publish his poems and literary essays. In 1988 he was awarded the OBE.
Ben Hickman teaches at the University of Kent, where he is working on a study of John Ashbery's poetry.
Dan Hitchens was a Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2006, and runner-up in the U18 section of the 2007 Times Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation. He writes for the ezine Pomegranate.
Chris Holifield is the Director of the Poetry Book Society, which has recently relaunched its Children's Poetry Bookshelf. In 2005 the organisation ran the Next Generation Poets promotion and launched www.poetrybookshoponline.com.
Alex Houen is co-editor of the online poetry magazine Manifold. He teaches in the School of English, University of Sheffield, and has published poems in a number of journals.
Peter Howarth is a Lecturer in English at the University of Nottingham, and the author of British Poetry in the Age of Modernism (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
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Chris Jones teaches English at the University of St Andrews. Author of Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-century Poetry (Oxford University Press) he has recently had poems published in English, The Oxford Magazine and Poetry Scotland.
Evan Jones was born in Toronto and recently moved to Manchester. His first collection, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (Fitzhenry & Whiteside), was published in 2003.
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