Chris Agee was born in San Francisco in 1956. He is currently completing a new collection, First Light. He is editor of Scar on the Stone, an anthology of Bosnian poetry.
Fergus Allen’s third collection, Mrs. Power Looks Over the Bay, will be published by Faber in October 1999.
Gary Allen was born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim. His poems have been published in Acumen, HU, London Magazine, New Welsh Review, The North, Poetry Ireland Review, Orbis, Stand and elsewhere.
Wendy Bardsley is a university lecturer and works with the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester. An Enduring Flame: The Brontë Story (Smith Settle) was published in 1998, as was her second poetry collection, Steel Wings (Headland). Poetry in the Parks (Sigma) is scheduled for publication in spring 2000.
Wayne Burrows’s study of the assemblage work of Sarah Lucas, With Knobs On..., is forthcoming from Pavic/Culture Matters later this year, and a first collection, Marginalia, from Peterloo Poets in May 2000. He currently lives in London.
Stephen Burt lives in New York City, where he is writing a dissertation about Randall Jarrell. His own poems appear in New Poetries II (Carcanet); his book of poems, Popular Music, will be published in October by the Center for Literary Publishing and the University Press of Colorado.
Rachel Buxton is a D.Phil student at Hertford College, Oxford. She is researching the influence of Robert Frost on Heaney and Muldoon.
Matthew Campbell teaches English at the University of Sheffield. He has just published Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry (CUP) and is the editor of the Tennyson Research Bulletin.
John Capp was born in Wiltshire in 1970. He won a scholarship to read History at the University of Wales, and graduated in 1991. He has since returned to Wiltshire, where he lives and works.
Simon Carnell was educated at the University of York, and at Oxford where he wrote a thesis on Finnegans Wake. He has five poems forthcoming in London Magazine, and is a regular reviewer of fiction for The Sunday Times.
Kate Clanchy’s Samarkand is published this summer by Picador.
Andy Croft lives in Middlesbrough, and teaches Literature and Creative Writing for the University of Leeds Department of Adult Continuing Education. His first full-length collection, Nowhere Special, was published by Flambard in 1996.
Peter Faulkner has recently retired from the School of English at the University of Exeter. His academic specialisation is William Morris, but he enjoyed teaching courses on Recent British Poetry for a number of years.
Tom French’s poems have appeared in HU, The Literary Review, Metre, R.O.P.E.S., Shenandoah, Stand and elsewhere. His first collection, Singing in the Underground, is due from Gallery. He lives in Dublin.
Alice Fulton is the author of four books of poetry, the most recent being Sensual Math (Norton). A collection of prose essays, Feeling as a Foreign Language, has just appeared from Graywolf.
Terry Gifford teaches at Bretton Hall College of Leeds University. He is the author of Green Voices: Understanding Contemporary Nature Poetry (Manchester University Press, 1995) and Pastoral (Routledge, 1999). With Neil Roberts he wrote Ted Hughes: A Critical Study. His latest collection of poetry is Whale Watching with a Boy and a Goat (Redbeck, 1998).
Paul Groves has won numerous competitions, and works as a literary critic for several periodicals. His third book, Eros and Thanatos, appears shortly from Seren.
Paul Henry’s third collection, The Milk Thief, was recently published by Seren. Poems from this book appeared in issue 10 of Thumbscrew, in the ‘Featured Poet’ section.
Randall Jarrell (1914-1965) was a leading poet and critic of mid-century America. Works include The Complete Poems (1969), Poetry and the Age (1953), the novel Pictures from an Institution (1954), and four children’s books, including The Bat-Poet (1964). Many of his essays appear in the new selection No Other Book, edited by Brad Leithauser. His widow’s memoir, Remembering Randall, also appeared this year in the US (both from HarperCollins).
David Keefe edits Weatherlight Press, publishing contemporary American Poetry. He is currently writing a book on poetry and Buddhism.
Stephen Knight’s last collection of poems is Dream City Cinema (Bloodaxe, 1996). A novel, Mr. Schnitzel, is due from Penguin next Spring.
Samuel Klonimos was born in 1934 to a family of refugees from Odessa. He worked in several countries, chiefly France, where he also lectured in theology and in literary criticism. He now lives on the island of Alderney.
Tim Liardet is a poet and critic originally from London, now living in Shropshire. His third collection, Competing with the Piano Tuner, appeared from Seren late last year and is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.
Eugenio Montale (1896-1981) was a poet, essayist and translator. He received the Nobel Prize in 1975.
Dennis O’Driscoll’s latest collection of poems is Weather Permitting (Anvil, 1999), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Caitriona O’Reilly is from Dublin. She has published poetry and criticism in Ireland, the U.K., U.S. and Australia.
Sheenagh Pugh’s latest collection is Stonelight (Seren, 1999). ‘Missing Scenes’ is from a sequence, ‘Fanfic’, about a woman’s obsession with a fictional character.
Alan Reid came third in the 1993 Arvon International Poetry Competition. In 1994 he received a BBC poetry award. He lives and works in Kirriemuir, Scotland.
Mark Roper is currently editor of Poetry Ireland Review.
Tomaz Salamun is a Slovenian, whose books translated into English include Homage to Hat & Uncle Guido & Eliot (Arc, 1997), edited by Charles Simic with an introduction by Robert Haas. At the moment he lives in New York.
William Scammell is working on a New and Selected Poems.
Anne Stevenson’s Collected Poems is published by OUP. Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop (Agenda/Bellew) and Between the Iceberg and the Ship (Michigan) both appeared last year.
Jenny Swann studied English literature and art history, and has worked at the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her poems have appeared in the London Magazine, Oxford Poetry, Smith’s Knoll and elsewhere.
Richard Tillinghast has published five books in the US, most recently The Stonecutter’s Hand (1995). In Ireland Salmon brought out a new and selected poems, Today in the Cafe Trieste, last year.
Roland Trope was born in Los Angeles and studied English at Oxford. He practises law in New York City, and is Adjunct Professor of Law at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
David Wheatley’s first collection, Thirst, is published by Gallery Press.
Gregory Warren Wilson is a professional violinist. He has published two collections of poetry: Preserving Lemons (Staple First Edition Award) in 1996, and Hanging Wind-chimes in a Vacuum (Tears in the Fence) in 1997.
Howard Wright is a lecturer in Art History at the University of Ulster, Belfast. His first slim collection, Usquebaugh, was published by Redbeck Press in 1997. In 1998 he won the Kilkenny Prize for poetry and the Martin Healy Short Story Award (Scriobh Festival, Sligo).
Dan Wyke lives in Brighton, where he works part-time as a Reminiscence Coordinator.
Tamar Yoseloff’s first full collection, Sweetheart (Slow Dancer, 1998), was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and the winner of the 1998 Aldeburgh Festival Prize. She was the founder of the Terrible Beauty poetry series.
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