Rupert M Loydell’s most recent collection is Lost in the Slipstream (Original Plus). Boombox is forthcoming from Shearsman. He is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at University College Falmouth and the editor of Stride and With magazines.

Angeline Farrow graduated in 2003 with a degree in Drama and Writing, but has been writing poetry and fiction ever since she was old enough to hold a pen.  She has lived in Devon her whole life, and is greatly inspired by the wilderness of Dartmoor and the unique coastlines of this county.
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Martin Stannard’s latest collection is Faith, published by Shadowtrain in January 2009. Previous collections of poetry include Poems on Various Subjects (Shoestring Press, 2004), Difficulties & Exultations (Smith/Doorstop, 2001)  and Writing Down The Days: New & Selected Poems (Stride, 2001). After ten highly amusing years working as a telephone operator, in 2005 he went to China to teach English to university students. In 2007 he returned to the UK to be the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Nottingham Trent University. Then, in 2008, he again returned to China, which is a long way away.

Peter Hughes is founding editor of the new and highly successful Oystercatcher Press. His latest collection is The Summer of Agios Dimitrios (2009) from Shearsman.

Keith Hilling was twice shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. His poems can be found in magazines including Aesthetica, The Raven Chronicles and the Ugly Tree. He is currently working towards an MA in Creative Writing at Lancaster University.

Carole Coates's first collection The Goodbye Edition was published by Shoestring in 2005.  Shoestring will bring out her second Looking Good in September 2009.  She has been working on a series of persona monologues which make up a narrative about a dystopian society. Her poem "Boys are like diamonds" comes from this.

Lia Brooks has been writing poetry for several years and has had poems published here in the U.K., and in the U.S. She has also taken part in some Painter/Poet collaborations for exhibitions also in the U.S. She lives in Southampton and likes nothing more than to walk, read and write.

Libby Hart ‘s first collection of poetry, Fresh News from the Arctic (Interactive Press, 2006), received the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Prize. She is the recipient of a DJ O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship at The Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne, as well as an international skills and arts development studio residency (Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Ireland, 2008) from the Australia Council for the Arts. Her work has been published widely and broadcast on ABC Radio National.

Rufo Quintavalle was born in London, studied at Oxford & the University of Iowa & now lives in Paris.  He is the author of a chapbook, Make Nothing Happen (Oystercatcher Press, 2009) & his poems have appeared in numerous print & online journals around the world, including Barrow Street, The London Magazine, The Wolf, Great Works, Shadowtrain, Versal, NO/ON, MiPOesias, The Stinging Fly, Smiths Knoll, Carolina Quarterly, Transcript, P.F.S. Post, & Paris/Atlantic. He helps edit the Paris-based literary magazine, Upstairs at Duroc & is Acting Poetry Editor for nthposition. He participates in the online collaborative poetics site “Rewords”. Work as part of an online exhibition called Public Pages can be seen / read at http://www.falmouth.ac.uk/1057/public-pages-40/artists-390/rufo-quintavalle-2355.html.  

Nathan Thompson’s first full-length collection of poetry, the arboretum towards the beginning, was published by Shearsman in 2008.

Ian McMillan is a poet, performer and broadcaster. He presents the weekly words show The Verb on BBC Radio 3; his latest book is Talking Myself Home, a verse autobiography published by John Murray. His website is www.ian-mcmillan.co.uk