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Ruth Padel is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and current Chair of the Poetry Society. She has won the National Poetry Competition and published six collections, most recently The Soho Leopard, a Poetry Book Society Choice. Her non-fiction works include 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem
Ricardo Pau-Llosa's sixth book of poems, Parable Hunter, is from Carnegie Mellon University Press, as were his last three titles. His website is: www.pau-llosa.com
Arto Payaslian is originally from Boston. A poet and songwriter, he is working on a book-length poem while completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Glasgow University.
Graham Pechey was born in Durban, South Africa. He has published essays on Blake and his context, on Mikhail Bakhtin, and on 'colonial writing'. After holding posts at Natal and Zambia, he lectured at the University of Hertfordshire. He now lives in Girton and teaches English part-time at the University of Cambridge.
Michael Peverett is a poet and naturalist who lives in Somerset. He studied English at Exeter and Durham and wrote his PhD thesis on Piers Plowman.
Edward Picot is a writer and critic of hyperliterature (literature designed for computers). His personal website is at http://edwardpicot.com and he also runs The Hyperliterature Exchange at http://hyperex.co.uk.
Adam Piette is Professor at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, Beckett and Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry, 1939-1945, is working on a monograph on Cold War writing, and contributes a poetry section to The Reader.
John Pilling has written for PN Review for more than twenty-five years. He is best known for his work on Beckett, and for 50 Modern European Poets (Heinemann, 1984).
Ian Pindar's poems have appeared in Oxford Poetry, Poetry Review and New Poetries III (Carcanet 2002). He has written a biography of James Joyce (Haus, 2004) and his translation (with Paul Sutton) of Félix Guattari's The Three Ecologies was published in 2000.
Richard Pollott graduated from Bristol University in 2005 with a Masters degree in Modern and Contemporary Poetry, and is currently managing community arts projects for the Canterbury Festival. He also performs regularly at the piano, receiving a BBC songwriting award for tracks on his home-produced albumKahani.
Ian Pople's An Occasional Lean-to has recently been published by Arc.
Richard Price's latest collection is Lucky Day (Carcanet), shortlisted in the Forward Prize's Best First Collection category. His collaboration with the book artist Karen Bleitz, Schematic, was recently exhibited at the Pentagram Gallery.
Stephen Procter is a critic and studying for a PhD at the University of Liverpool.
Sheenagh Pugh lives in Cardiff and teaches creative writing at the University of Glamorgan. She has published two novels and many poetry collections; her current collection is "The Beautiful Lie" (Seren), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize, and her next, "The Movement of Bodies" will come out from Seren in 2005.
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Justin Quinn was born in Dublin in 1968 and now lives in Prague, where he works at the Charles University. He was a founding editor of the Irish poetry magazine Metre and has published three collections of poetry. In 2005, he will publish a study of 20th century American poetry and he is presently writing *The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry, 1800-2000*.
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Anthony Radice recently completed a PhD on the poetry of John Ashbery and Frank O'Hara. He currently teaches English at Stowe School, Buckinghamshire.
Edward Ragg, a former scholar of Keble College, Oxford, and Selwyn College, Cambridge, is currently a Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford. He has published poems in May Anthologies and Aesthetica magazine.
Belle Randall won a National Endowment of the Arts grant in Poetry
2005-7 (USA). Her most recent chapbook is True Love, from Wood Works Press, 2003. She is the Poetry Editor of Common Knowledge (Duke University Press). Her manuscript The Faithful Lover was a finalist in the Anthony Hecht Prize competition (2006).
Jody Allen Randolph is currently finishing the last of a series of comprehensive bibliographies on Eavan Boland, Derek Mahon, and Michael Longley. She is at work on a book on the sixties generation in Irish poetry.
John Redmond teaches Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool. His second collection of poems, MUDe, is scheduled to be published in 2008. He is writing a critical book about contemporary poetry for Seren Books.
John Ridland is a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. John the Valiant, his verse translation of Sándor Petöfi's János Vitéz, is published by Hesperus Press. His Selected Poems were published in Hungarian translation by Europa Press, Budapest, in 2004, and have been released in an English edition by the Dowitcher Press, Santa Barbara, in 2007.
Peter Riley's selected poems, Passing Measures, was published by Carcanet in 2000, and Alstonefield, a long poem, in 2003. A book of Transylvanian travel sketches, The Dance at Mociu, has appeared from Shearsman Books, as have two books of prose and verse miscellany, The Days Final Balance, and The Llyn Writings, and a book of three poem sequences, A Map of Faring, from Parlor Press in U.S.A. His webite address is www.aprileye.co.uk. He lives in retirement in Cambridge.
Tony Roberts is an assistant head at Little Lever School in Bolton. He is the author of Flowers of the Hudson Bay (Peterloo) and Sitters (Arc). His poems and reviews have appeared extensively in the literary press.
Peter Robinson's recent books include a Selected Poems (Carcanet Press) and a collection of aphorisms and prose-poems, Untitled Deeds (Salt Publising). His Twentieth-Century Poetry: Selves and Situations is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
David Rollow writes frequently on philosophy, literature, art, architecture, and cultural history. He has recently finished a novel featuring the Muse as a demigoddess who divides her time between Arcadia and Suburbia.
Felicity Rosslyn is a Reader in English at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Alexander Pope - A Literary Life and Tragic Plots. She has a special interest in medical education and translation studies.
Stephen Romer's anthology Twentieth Century French Poems was published by Faber in 2002. He has translated a further chapter of Paul Valéry's Cahiers for the ongoing publication by Peter Lang. Yellow Studio, his fourth collection of poems, is forthcoming from Carcanet OxfordPoets, and his Tribut, a Selected Poems in French, is published by Editions Le Temps qu'il fait (Cognac). His poem "Adult single" appeared in the "Anthologie bilingue de la poésie anglaise", Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pleiade, 2005.
Anthony Rudolf, born in 1942, is an autobiographer, poet and translator. He has recently completed a volume of short stories. In 2004 he was appointed Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and in 2005 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Carol Rumens has published fourteen full-length poetry collections and is currently researching eco-critical developments in contemporary poetry and working on an autobiographical novel.
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Lawrence Sail has published eight collections of poems, most recently THE WORLD RETURNING (Bloodaxe, 2002). In 2004 he received a Cholmondeley Award.
Håkan Sandell (1962), is the author of numerous books of poetry, criticism and translations. Born in Malmö, Sweden, he currently lives in Oslo.
Peter Sansom's books includeThe Last Place On Earth(Carcanet, 2006), andWriting Poems(Bloodaxe). He is a director of The Poetry Business and editor ofThe Northmagazine and Smith/Doorstop Books. Formerly with M&S, he is now Company Poet at Prudential. He is married to the poet Ann Sansom.
Robert Saxton is the author of two volumes of poetry: The Promise Clinic (Enitharmon 1994) and Manganese (Carcanet/Oxford Poets 2003).
Peter Scupham founded the Mandeville Press with John Mole and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He has ten collections of poetry published by Oxford University Press and Anvil and his Collected Poems is published by Carcanet. He now lives in Norfolk and runs a catalogue book business with Margaret Steward.
Ian Seed works as a freelance writer, tutor and translator. His poems, fiction and reviews have appeared in various publications on both sides of the Atlantic, and his poems have been translated into Dutch. He is currently working on a full-length collection of prose poems, and plans to publish further excerpts from his translation of Le Voleur de Talan.
The French of Jean Senac was assasinated in circumstances very similar to Pasolini's in Algiers in 1973. He retains an energy and has way with neologism (difficult to translate) that keep one reading.
David Sergeant is currently reading for a PhD at Lincoln College, Oxford, and has had poems published in the London Magazine, Stand and PN Review.
Don Share is Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review and Curator of the Poetry Room at Harvard University, where he also teaches. His most recent book of poems is Union (Zoo Press). Other books include Seneca in English (Penguin Classics) and his translations of Miguel Hernandez, I Have Lots of Heart (Bloodaxe). His critical edition, The Poems of Basil Bunting, is in the works at Faber.
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Simon Smith was Librarian at the Poetry Library until March 2007. He now teaches Creative Writing as Senior Lecturer at London South Bank University, and Associate Lecturer at the Open University. His last collection of poetry was Mercury (Salt, 2006). Currently he is translating the poems of Catullus.
Rowena Sommerville lives and works on Teesside as a writer, artist and singer, and runs community arts projects. One of these is You Are Here, which supports refugees and people seeking asylum, using the arts as a tool of welcome and integration. She has published several children's books and is currently a student of the Virtual Creative Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Julian Stannard is the author of Rina's War (2001) and The Red Zone (2007), both published by Peterloo Poets. His study of Donald Davie and Charles Tomlinson will be published shortly by The Edwin Mellen Press. He teaches at the University of Winchester.
George Steiner is Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
Jane Stevenson is Professor of Latin at King's College, Aberdeen, working mostly on women in the Renaissance. She is also the author of a number of novels.
Will Stone is a poet, critic and translator. His new translation of poems by Georg Trakl will appear from Arc Publications.
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'.
James Sutherland-Smith works as Peacekeeping Project Manager advising the Armed Forces of Serbia and Montenegro on English language teaching. With his wife, Viera, he is the major translator of Slovak poetry into English. His last collection of poetry is In the Country of Birds (Carcanet).
Anne Sweeney wrote her thesis on Southwell's poetry at the University of Lancaster. Her study of Southwell, Snow in Arcadia: redrawing the English lyric landscape, is published by Manchester University Press in 2006. A new scholarly edition of The Collected Poems of S. Robert Southwell SJ, prepared in collaboration with Peter Davidson, and based on the secretly-circulated manuscripts discussed in this essay, will be published by Carcanet in 2007.
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