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Daniel Kane is author of All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene in the 1960s (University of California, 2003), What is Poetry: Conversations with the American Avant-Garde (Teachers & Writers, 2003), and, as editor and contributor, Don’t Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing After the New York School (Dalkey Archives, 2006). He is currently Lecturer in American Literature at the University of East Anglia.
James Keery lives in Culcheth and teaches English at Fred Longworth High School in Tyldesley. Carcanet published That Stranger, The Blues in 1996; and a new edition of Burns Singer's Collected Poems in 2001. Currently writing on J.H. Prynne (for Jacket ) as well as on the Apocalypse and a couple of the poets in between.
Judy Kendall contributes to various independent magazines. She is a translator of Japanese haiku, noh, and contemporary fiction and researches into the work of Edward Thomas and the Composing Process at the University of Gloucestershire.
David Kennedy is AHRB Fellow in Creative & Performing Arts 2004-2007 at Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds, where he is writing and researching contemporary elegies. '
Kate Keogan has won prizes for her poems and reviews and is currently working on a first collection of poetry. She also works as a freelance copy-editor.
Born and educated in Bihar, India, Tabish Khair is a poet and writer based in Aarhus, Denmark. His latest book is a novel about the Bombay film industry during the partition of India, Filming: A Love Story (Picador, 2007).
Mimi Khalvati's Carcanet collections include In White Ink, Mirrorwork, Entries on Light and her Selected Poems in 2000. Her most recent collection is The Chine. She is the founder of The Poetry School, where she teaches poetry courses in London.
Richard King lives in Oxford. He recently returned from Australia where he wrote for Australian Book Review and other magazines.
David Kinloch is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow where he teaches Creative Writing and Scottish Literature. His poetry books are Paris-Forfar (Polygon, 1994), Un Tour d'Ecosse (Carcanet, 2001) and In My Father's House (Carcanet, 2005).
Michael Kinsella is currently writing a book on crushes.
Marius Kociejowski has published three collections of poetry: Coast, which was awarded the Cheltenham Prize, Doctor Honoris Causa, and Music's Bride. He is also a travel writer, having published The Street Philosopher & the Holy Fool.
Aharon Komem is Profesor Emeritus of Hebrew literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published eight books of poetry, has edited the collected poems of David Vogel and has translated several Shakespeare plays.
Len Krisak's books of poetry include Midland, Even as We Speak, andIf Anything. He is the recipient of the Richard Wilbur and Robert Frost prizes and is a four-time champion on Jeopardy!
Frank Kuppner's most recent book of poetry is A God's Breakfast. Earlier books include: A Bad Day for the Sung Dynasty(Scottish Arts Council Book Award, 1984), Ridiculous! Absurd! Disgusting!(1989), Everything is Strange(1994), andWhat? Again? Selected Poems (2000).
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R.F. Langley's Collected Poems were published by Carcanet in 2000.
Herbert Leibowitz is the editor and publisher of Parnassus: Poetry in Review and the author of Fabricating Lives: Explorations in American Autobiography. He is writing a critical biography of William Carlos Williams.
Tom Leonard is known for poetry written in the urban speech of the Glasgow area. Places of the Mind, his biographical study of James Thomson, author of The City of Dreadful Night, was published in 1993. Other work includes Intimate Voices: Selected Work 1965-1983 (1984), Satires and Profanities (1984), On the Mass Bombing of Iraq and Kuwait (1991) and Reports from the Present: Selected Work 1982-94 (1995).
Gabriel Levin is the author of two volumes of poetry, most recently Ostraca, and has translated widely from contemporary Hebrew. His translations of Yehuda Halevi, Poems from the Diwan, were published recently in the UK.
Gwyneth Lewis was appointed Wales's first National Poet in April 2005. She has published six books of poetry in Welsh and English. Her first collection in English, Parables and Faxes (Bloodaxe, 1995) won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize and was short listed for the Forward, as was her second, Zero Gravity (Bloodaxe, 1998). Y Llofrudd Iaith (Barddas, 2000), won the Welsh Arts Council Book of the Year Prize and Keeping Mum was short listed for the same prize in 2004.
Tim Liardet is Senior Lecturer in Creative Studies at Bath Spa University. He has produced five collections of poetry. His fourth To the God of Rain was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He won an Arts Council England Writer's Award in 2003 for his collection-in-progress; The Blood Choir, his fifth book, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Summer 2006.
James Lindesay is currently Professor of Psychiatry for the Elderly at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. A briefly published poet in his youth, he is now returning to the craft after a long time doing other things.
Grevel Lindop (www.grevel.co.uk) has published six collections of poems, most recently Playing With Fire from Carcanet, who also publish his Selected Poems. His Literary Guide to the Lake District appeared in a new edition in 2005. He is working on a biography of the poet, novelist and theologian Charles Williams.
Dr Rebecca Loncraine wrote her doctoral thesis on Djuna Barnes. She then edited a collection of Barnes poetry, published in 2003. She is a freelance writer, with specialist interest in non-fiction on 20thC subjects. She is currently writing a history of Page 3.
In 1933 Federico García Lorca travelled to 'Our America', his term for South America. In Buenos Aires he encountered the Argentinian poet Alfonsina Storni, whose poetic portrait is included here. On his voyage home Lorca wrote the 'Gacela of Dark Death'.
Charlie Louth has translated Hölderlin's letters and is working on a book on Rilke. He teaches at Oxford University.
John Lyon teaches English at Bristol University and writes on a wide range of literature from Shakespeare to the present day.
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Alasdair Macrae taught English Literature at the University of Stirling until his retiral in 2003. He has written a literary life of W.B. Yeats and has written extensively on modern poetry.
John McAuliffe's first book is A Better Life (Gallery, 2002). He has published poems in the Times Literary Supplement, Metre, Poetry Review and elsewhere and is programme director of Dublin's Poetry Now Festival. He teaches creative writing at Manchester University.
Peter McCarey is the author of The Syllabary, which can be found at http://knot.ch. The same site contains a bibliography of his other poetry, and the book of essays Find An Angel and Pick a Fight. He lives in Geneva, where he manages language services for a specialised agency of the United Nations.
Chris McCully is a freelance writer and teacher. He lives in Amsterdam. Recent publications include Goodbye, Mr. Wonderful(Jessica Kingsley, 2004) and The Earliest English(with Sharon Hilles; Pearson Longman, 2005). In 2007 Cambridge University Press will publish his introduction to The Sound Structure of English. He has published three collections of verse with Carcanet, and is currently working on some Old English translations.
Peter McDonald is currently Christopher Tower Student and Tutor in Poetry in the English Language at Christ Church, Oxford. A prominent critic of modern and contemporary poetry, he has published a book on Louis MacNeice, a study of Northern Irish poetry entitled Mistaken Identities, and, most recently, Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill. He has edited MacNeice's Selected Plays, and is also the editor of the forthcoming new edition of MacNeice's Collected Poems.
Jill McDonough's work has appeared in Poetry, Slate, and The Threepenny Review. Since 1997 she has been teaching in Massachusetts prisons as part of Boston University's Prison Education Program. She is currently a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.
Gerry McGrath was co-recipient of the Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Award in 2004. His poems have appeared in the Edinburgh Review, and in Being Alive (Bloodaxe, 2004). He lives in Renfrewshire.
James McGrath, in addition to working on his own poems, is a PhD student at Leeds Metropolitan University. He also works as a bookseller in Manchester, and has published workin the journal Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies.
Patrick McGuinness is a fellow of St Anne's College, University of Oxford, where he lectures in French. His books include Maurice Maeterlinck and the Making of Modern Theatre (Oxford UP, 2000), Symbolism, Decadence and the fin de siècle (University of Exeter Press, 2000), and he has edited the Penguin Classics edition of Against Nature by J-K Huysmans and TE Hulme's Selected Writings for Carcanet. His French Anthologie de la Poésie symboliste et décadente is published by Les Belles Lettres (Paris, 2001).
Michael McKimm is from the Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland. He received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 2007.
Andrew McNeillie is Literature Editor at Oxford University Press. His collection of poems Nevermore (2000) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A further collection Now, Then came out in 2002 from Oxford/Carcanet. His prose memoir An Aran Keening was published in 2001 by the Lilliput Press.
Patrick Mackie lives in Gloucestershire. His poetry is published by Carcanet.
Robin Maconie studied piano with Christina Geel and majored in English literature and contemporary music at Victoria University, New Zealand. As a graduate bursar he studied under Olivier Messiaen at the Paris Conservatoire 1963-1964, and in Cologne with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Herbert Eimert, Bernd-Alois Zimmermann, Aloys Kontarsky, and others. He has held teaching appointments at the universities of Auckland, Sussex, Surrey, Oxford, and The City University, London, and Savannah. His wider reputation as a writer and musicologist is based on studies of the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, most recently Other Planets (Scarecrow Press: 2005). His other titles pursue a lifelong ambition to restore intelligent conversation to classical and modern music through a transfer of ideas from the familar world of philosophy, design, architecture, computing, literature, science, and the media. Robin Maconie returned to New Zealand in 2002 and lives in Dannevirke.
Willy Maley is the son of James Maley, one of the last surviving members of the International Brigade.From the Calton to Catalonia, a play based on his father's experiences as a POW in Spain in 1937, was staged at The Tramway Theatre, Glasgow, in 2004. He is Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Glasgow and co-founded, with Philip Hobsbaum, the Glasgow's Creative Writing Master's course.
Fred Marchant is a Professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston, and is the author of three books of poetry. Tipping Point won the 1993 Word Works Washington Prize. Full Moon Boat was published by Graywolf Press in 2000, and House on Water, House in Air: New and Selected Poems was published by Dedalus Press in 2002. He is the founding director of the Suffolk University Poetry Center.
E.A. Markham, active in theatre and in literature -- he is a story-writer as well as a poet -- is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University, edits the magazine Sheffield Thursday, and directs the biennial Hallam Literature Festival. His recent books of poems include Misapprehensions and A Rough Climate (shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize), both published by Anvil.
Robyn Marsack has worked as a freelance editor, critic and translator, and since 2000 has been Director of the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh.
Adrian May teaches writing at the University of Essex. His background is as a songwriter on the English folk music circuit. In addition to songs, he has published poems, fiction, and articles on music and Creative Writing. His current work includes essays on positive views of tradition and a book about writers’ inspirations.
Jeffrey Meyers has recently won an Award in Literature 'to honour exceptional achievement" from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His life of Modigliani appeared in 2006.
Christopher Middleton has published translations of Robert Walser, Nietzsche, Holderlin, Goethe and many others. Over the last three decades Carcanet has published several books of his poems, his experimental prose and two volumes of essays, as well as a Selected Writingsand Faint Harps and Silver Voices, a collection of verse translations. His most recent collection is The Anti-Basilisk.
Niccolò Milanese is a writer and artist, currently working on a book in the philosophy of history. He is also Senior Editor at The Liberal magazine.
Chris Miller is a freelance translator, editor and critic and a longstanding contributor to PN Review and European Photography. A founder and director of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures, he edited The Dissident Word (1995), and was associate editor of Leviathan Quarterly (2002-- 3). He has edited Candide and The Red and the Black for Könemann classics and written extensively on Allen Curnow.
Robert Minhinnick's translations from the Welsh, The Adulterer's Tongue, appeared in 2003. He won the Forward Best Individual Poem prize in 1999 and 2003 and was shortlisted in 2004.
David Morley with Jeremy Treglown founded the Writing Programme in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick where he develops and teaches new practices in scientific as well as creative writing and theatre writing. His collection Scientific Papers appeared from Carcanet in 2002. New projects include an anthology of new Romanian writing, No Longer Poetry, and The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing.
Brian Morton is a full-time writer. For nearly ten years, he was a BBC broadcaster.
Stanley Moss is a private art dealer specializing in Italian and Spanish old masters, as well as the publisher and editor of The Sheep Meadow Press. His collections includeIntelligence of Clouds (1989), The Skull of Adam (1979), The Wrong Angel (1966), and most recently A History of Colour (all Anvil Press).
John Muckle initiated the Paladin Poetry list in the 1980s. His own books include The Cresta Run, Cyclomotors (fiction), and a new poetry collection, Firewriting and other poems from Shearsman Book.
Julie Mullaney researches and teaches postcolonial literatures and theory in the Department of English at Manchester Metropolitan University with special interests in contemporary Australian and Irish writing. She has published essays on Thea Astley, Arundhati Roy and Patrick White.
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Helena Nelson's 'Starlight on Water' was a joint first-prize winner of the Jerwood First Collection Prize in 2003. She has recently set up a HappenStance, a Scottish chapbook poetry imprint (see www.happenstancepress.com).
Jeremy Noel-Tod is writing a PhD on Four Quartets and post-war poetry at Trinity College, Cambridge.
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Gregory O'Brien's most recent collection of verse is Afternoon of an Eevening Train, published in 2005 by Victoria University Press. With Jenny Bornholdt, he co-edited an anthology of writing by New Zealanders in France and French writers in New Zealand, the Colour of Distance (Victoria University Press), which also appeared recently. His book-length essay news of the Swimmer Reaches the Shore is forthcoming from Carcanet.
James O'Connor is a poet and playwright from New York City. His translations of the Cuban poet Dulce Maria Loynaz have appeared in PNR and other literary magazines in the United States. He has lived in France, Mexico, and Cuba and now teaches Spanish in Brooklyn.
Bernard O'Donoghue teaches Medieval English at Wadham College, Oxford. His most recent book of poems was Outliving (Chatto 2003), and he is translating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for Penguin Classics. He is an editor of OxfordPoetsCarcanet.
John O'Donoghue is currently researching a PhD in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University College. His poems, reviews, articles and interviews have appeared in the Observer, the Times Educational Supplement, Irish World, London Magazine and others.
Adam O'Riordan is poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust. His pamphlet Queen of the Cotton Cities recently received an Eric Gregory award. He is co-editor of The Shape of the Dance, Michael Donaghy's selected prose which Picador will publish in 2009.
Eric Ormsby is the author of five collections of poetry, the latest of which is Daybreak at the Straits (Zoo Press, 2004). He was a professor of Islamic Studies at McGill University for twenty years and now lives in London.
Jeremy Over lives and works in Cumbria. His work was first published in New Poetries II (Carcanet). His first collection isA Little Bit of Bread and No Cheese (Carcanet 2001).
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