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Paul Bavister
has published three books of poetry, the most recent being The Prawn Season (Two Rivers Press). He also teaches at the University of Reading and Birkbeck College, London.


Anne Germanacos'
work has appeared recently in Descant, Quarterly West, Blackbird, Salamander, Florida Review, Pindeldyboz, Agni-online and many others. She lives in San Francisco and on Crete.


Jeremy Over
’s first collection A Little Bit of Bread and No Cheese was published by Carcanet in 2001. His next Tring is due in 2009. He works from home in Cockermouth , Cumbria as a policy adviser for the Dept for Work and Pensions’.


Frederick Pollack
is the author of two book-length narrative poems, The Adventure and Happiness, both published by Story Line Press.  Other of his poems and essays have appeared in Hudson Review, Southern Review, Fulcrum, Salmagundi, Poetry Salzburg Review, Die Gazette (Munich), Representations and elsewhere.  Poems have most recently appeared in the print journals Iota (UK), Orbis (UK), Naked Punch (UK), Magma (UK), and The Hat.  Online, poems have appeared in Big Bridge, Snorkel, Hamilton Stone Review, Diagram, BlazeVox, The New Hampshire Review, Denver Syntax, Barnwood, elimae, Wheelhouse, Mudlark and elsewhere.  Pollack is an adjunct professor of creative writing at George Washington University, Washington, DC.

Katherine Holmes has her work published in The South Dakota Review, Cider Press
Review, Phantasmagoria, WordWrights, Marginalia, Minnesota Poetry Calendar,
Porcupine, and more than 25 print journals.   On the internet, she’s published at  Amarillo Bay, Avatar, Denver Syntax, Eclectica, Facets, Frigg, Fringe, The King's English, Review Americana, The Salt River Review, and Word Riot.  Her web site is: http://home.earthlink.net/~klouholmes/


Nathan Thompson
lives in the Channel Islands.  He is reviews editor of Martin Stannard's Exultations and Difficulties and his poems have appeared in magazines and webzines including Stride, Great Works, and Dreamcatcher.  A first collection, the arboretum towards the beginning, will be published this year by Shearsman.


Colin Campbell
Robinson is a writer and social researcher from Sydney, Australia. For the past five years he’s been living and working in Britain. He’s published over 40 social justice reports and documentaries on a range of issues including homelessness, mental health and poverty. Many of these reports received extensive media coverage and have been influential in public policy. At the same time he has regularly published poems and prose in journals including Meanjin, Aesthetica, Masthead and Parameter.

Peter Hughes’ latest book is The Sardine Tree from Oystercatcher Press. After doing an M.Litt in Modern Poetry, he moved to Italy where he worked as a teacher and translator from 1983 to 1981. He has also worked as a stagehand, farm labourer, barman, builder, milkman, musician and gardener. Since 2006 he has devoted his time to writing.


Mark Cunningham
has poems in recent or forthcoming issues of Practice, BlazeVox, and Dusie.  Tarpaulin Sky Press will be bringing out a book titled Body Language, which will be a sort of diptych containing two separate collections, one titled Body (on parts of the body) and one titled Primer (on numbers and letters).  Otoliths will be bringing out a book titled 80 Beetles, which is just what it sounds like, poems based on beetles. 


Chris McCabe
was born in Liverpool in 1977. His poetry has featured in a number of magazines including ‘Magma’ and ‘Poetry Review’ and his first collection The Hutton Inquiry (Salt) was published in 2005. He has discussed and read his poetry on BBC World Service and featured a poem on the Oxfam CD Lifelines. In 2008 a pamphlet called A Borrowed Notebook (Landfill) and a book called Zeppelins (Salt) will be published. He currently works as a Joint Librarian of the Poetry Library, London.


Alistair Noon
was born in 1970, grew up in Aylesbury, and has lived in Berlin since 1993. His poems, reviews and translations from German, Russian and Chinese have appeared in Shearsman, Oasis, Litter, Cipher Journal, Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, Nth Position, Intercapillary Space, Magma and Poetry News.


Peter Boyle
lives in Sydney. His first three collections of poetry Coming home from the world (1994), The Blue Cloud of Crying (1997), and What the painter saw in our faces (2001) have received several awards including the New South Wales Premier's Award, the South Australian  Festival award and the National  Book Council Award. His latest collection of poetry, Museum of Space, published in 2004 by University of Queensland Press, was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier¹s Award. A chapbook Reading Borges was published by Picaro Press in December 2007.

Forthcoming in 2008 (from Shearsman) is a collection of collaborative poems with MTC Cronin, How does a man who is dead reinvent his body? The belated love poems of Thean Morris Caeli. He is currently completing a long work The Apocrypha of William O¹Shaunessy, fictive translations of imagined classical texts. His translations from French and Spanish poetry include The Trees: selected poems of Eugenio Montejo (Salt Publishing, 2004), as well as translations of Pierre Reverdy, René Char and Yves Bonnefoy. In 2004 he was shortlisted for the NSW Premier¹s Award for translation.


Daniele Pantano
is a poet, translator, and editor. He was born in Langenthal, Switzerland, of Sicilian and German parentage. His individual works, as well as his translations from the German by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and Georg Trakl, have been featured or are forthcoming in numerous journals and anthologies in Europe, Asia, and the United States, including Absinthe: New European Writing, The Adirondack Review, The Baltimore Review, Gradiva: International Journal of Italian Poetry, Italian Americana, Poetry International, The Mailer Review, and 32 Poems Magazine.  Pantano is also the co-editor of Härter, a prominent German literary magazine, and Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art.  Pantano divides his time between Switzerland, England, and the United States. He has taught at the University of South Florida and, as the Visiting Poet-in-Residence, at Florida Southern College. Since 2008, he's Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University, England.