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Arto Vaun (Payaslian) is a poet and songwriter from Boston. He has attended Harvard and the Bennington Writing Seminars. He is currently a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at Glasgow University and has taught at the University of Massachusetts and Mass Bay Community College. His poems have appeared in Meridian, Ararat, PN Review, Asbarez, and Howth Castle. His first book of poetry, Capillarity, is forthcoming from Carcanet Press in 2009.


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Jan Wagner, born in Hamburg in 1971, has lived in Berlin since 1995. he has published two volumes of poetry and has translated poetry from English, including work by Charles Simic, Simon Armitage and James Tate. He was co-editor of an influential anthology of young German poetry, Lyrik von Jetzt: 74 Stimmen, and has won several awards including, most recently, the Ernst-Meister-Award for nPoetry (2005).


Marcus Waithe has published articles on Geoffrey Hill and on William Morris in scholarly journals. He is a contributor to theTLS. Dr Waithe is currently finishing a book on William Morris's utopianism.


Chris Wallace-Crabbe is a poet and vi sual artist, and Professor Emeritus in the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. His latest Carcanet collection isBy and Large (2001). He has recently publishedRead It Again(Salt) and the late-modern epic,The Universe Looks Down(Brandl & Schlesi nger).


David C. Ward is an historian at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. He is curator of the NPG’s exhibition “The Mask of Lincoln”.


Sarah Wardle is a former Poetry Review new poet of the year. Her first collection, Fields Away (Bloodaxe), was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. She is the Resident poet at Tottenham Hotspur.


Roger Waterfield was born in India. He read Classics at Cambridge, became a teacher, then retired to mid-Wales. He is involved with the Church and with the Labour Party.


Adam Watt is lecturer in French at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research focuses on the work of Marcel Proust and on nineteenth- and twentieth-century French poetry. He is currently writing The Cambridge Introduction to Marcel Proust and editing a volume of essays on Proust’s Le Temps retrouvé.


Daniel Weissbort, poet and translator, was the founder with Ted Hughes of Modern Poetry in Translation, which he edited until 2004. He directed the Tranlsation Workshop and MFA Programme in Translation at the University of iowa for thirty years. His memoir of Joseph Brodsky, From Russian with Love, was published in 2004. His most recent book, edited in collaboration with Valentina Polukhina, is An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets. Modern


John Welch's most recent collection of poems is The Eastern Boroughs(Shearsman Books 2004). A number of articles that touch on his personal experiences in analysis have recently appeared in magazines.


Robert Wells lives in France. Carcanet has published three books of poetry his poetry and two verse translations, Virgil's Georgics (1982) and Theocritus's Idylls (1988).


Matthew Welton's collection The Book of Matthew (Carcanet) won the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2003.


David Wheatley’s recent publications include Mocker (Gallery Press) and Lament for Ali Farka Touré (Rack Press). He lectures at the University of Hull.


Ginny Wiehardt's poetry has appeared in journals such as Shenandoah, Hotel Amerika, and Spoon River Poetry Review. Her collection, Compulsion of the Unlocked Thing, was a finalist in the 2005 Ohio State University/The Journal Poetry Contest. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.


Ben Wilkinson’s poems and reviews have appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry London, Stand, The Manhattan Review (US) and the Times Literary Supplement. His first pamphlet of poems, The Sparks, was published by Tall-lighthouse in 2008.


John Hartley Williams has published nine collections of poetry, two of which have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Blues (October 2004) was published by Jonathan Cape. He has published translations from German, French, Serbo-Croatian as well as versions of the Rumanian poet Marin Sorescu: Censored Poems (2001) with Bloodaxe. He is co-author (with Matthew Sweeney) of Teach Yourself Writing Poetry. See website for more details: www.johnhartleywilliams.de


Clive Wilmer has published five books of poetry, including a Carcanet Selected Poems and The Falls (Worple Press). His recent publications include Miklós Radnóti's Forced March: Selected Poems (Enitharmon, 2003), translated from the Hungarian with George Gömöri, and an edition of Donald Davie's Modernist Essays (Carcanet). He has written extensively on John Ruskin and William Morris.


Jason Wilson is Professor of Latin American literature at University College London. He is completing a book on surrealism in Spanish American poetry.


Colin Winborn teaches English at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield, and has recently published essays on Jane Austen, Jeremy Reed, John Donne and the American 'alternative country' singer, Will Oldham. In 2004 his monograph, The Literary Economy of Jane Austen and George Crabbe, was published by Ashgate.


James Womack has recently finished a PhD on W.H.Auden and translation. He is co-editor of A Student's Guide to the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot (7th edition). He lives in Spain and is currently working on translations from the Basque poet Jon Juaristi.


Barry Wood retired in 2004 as Principal Lecturer in English & Creative Writing at the University of Bolton. He writes, reviews, and teaches modern poetry for the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Manchester. He was recently appointed honorary fellow in the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University.


Gregory Woods has published three poetry collections with Carcanet Press, most recently The District Commissioner's Dreams (2002). He is the author of Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-eroticism and Modern Poetry (1987) and A History of Gay Literature (1998), both from Yale University Press.


After several years as a freelance journalist and bookseller, William Wootten has recently started to work on the AHRC Penguin Archive Project at Bristol University.


Duncan Wu is Professor of English Language and Literature at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and the editor of Wordsworth's Poets (Carcanet) and many other books on Romanticism.