Peter Boyle is an Australian
poet living in Sydney. He has had four collections of poetry published, his latest collection being Museum of Space (2004). He has read his poetry at several festivals including International poetry week, Caracas (2004), the Medellín international Poetry Festival (1997), and the Festival de Poésie anglo-français,
Paris (1999). His translations of French and Spanish
poetry have appeared in such reviews as American Poetry Review, Verse and Jubilat. In 2004 a collection of his translations
The Trees: selected poems 1967 - 2004 by Eugenio Montejo was published by Saltpublishing(UK).
For a few years now he has been writing a long work The Apocrypha of
William O'Shaunessy, consisting
of fictive translations of imaginary texts by ancient or classical writers, from which 'Responsibilities' is taken.
Libby Hart’s poems
have appeared widely in both Australian and overseas publications, including The Age, Poetry Salzburg Review and Poetry New
Zealand. Her work has also been broadcast on ABC Radio National. In 2003 she was a recipient
of a D J O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship at The Australian Centre, University
of Melbourne. Her first collection of poetry, Fresh News from
the Arctic, was published by Interactive Publications in 2006.
Mario Meléndez (Linares, 1971) studied Journalism
at La República University of Santiago, Chile. Figured among his books are: Autocultura y juicio (with prologue
from the National Prize of Literature, Roque Esteban Scarpa) Apuntes para una leyenda
and Vuelo subterráneo. In 1993 he received the Municipal Prize of Literature in
the Bicentennial of Linares. His poems have appeared in different magazines of Latino-American literature and in national
and foreign anthologies. Mr. Meléndez has been invited to numerous literary encounters among
which stand out the First and Second Encounter of Latino-American Writers, organized by the Society of Writers of Chile (SECh),
Santiago, 2001 and 2002, and the First International Encounter of Amnesty and Solidarity of the People, Rome, Italy, 2003,
where he was named Honorary Member of the Academy of Arts and Letters of Rome. Moreover, he directed a literary workshop in
the Prison of Talca which was the source of the book Los Rostros del Olvido (two
volumes) where the poetic work of the prisoners is compiled. Currently, Mr. Meléndez is working on the project Fiestas del Libro Itinerante, and presides over the Society of Writers of Chile, Maule Region.
Ron Hudson was born in southeastern North Carolina, USA, in 1959. He received degrees in French and Chemistry
at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a Diplôme Supérieur d’Etudes Françaises, 3ème Degré at L’Institut
des Etudiants Etrangers, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier III in Montpellier,
France. He was diagnosed with HIV infection in December
of 1985. Into his 21st known year of HIV infection, he continues to live in Durham, NC, where he endeavors to educate about HIV/AIDS
issues throughout the world.
He has also collaborated
with the British musical and film group 1 Giant Leap on film projects and his prose has been published in ScribeSpirit
eZine. He founded the International Carnival of Pozitivities, a blog carnival for people living with HIV/AIDS and their
allies around the world (http://www.internationalcarnivalofpozitivities.blogspot.com) in June, 2006. You can contact
Ron Hudson by email at ron.hudson@verizon.net.
Tony Williams lives
in Sheffield, UK.
His work has appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Anon, Matter, Avocado, Andwerve
and The Printer’s Devil, is forthcoming in the Rialto and the Interpreter’s House, and is represented in the anthology
Ten Hallam Poets (Mews Press, 2005).
Jeremy Over's book of poems, A Little Bit of Bread and No Cheese was
published by Carcanet in 2001. New work has recently appeared in PN Review 168. He lives in Cumbria.
Anjali
Yardi was born in India
and has taught undergraduate English at the universities of Delhi, Calcutta
and Bombay. She now lives in Melbourne
(Australia). Her poems and translations
have appeared in Peter Philpott's Great Works and in previous issues of Shadowtrain.
