Rosmarie Waldrop's recent books of poetry are Blindsight (New Directions) and Love, Like Pronouns (Omnidawn). Her memoir, Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès  was published by Wesleyan University Press, and a book of essays, Dissonance (if you are interested), is just out from University of Alabama Press.

Martin Stannard's most recent collections of poems are Difficulties and Exultations (Smith/Doorstop, 2001) and Coral (Leafe Press, 2004). He is currently in China, teaching English to university students in Zhuhai and enjoying it immensely.

Poems and articles by KM Dersley have appeared in Poetry Review, London Magazine, The Rialto, and many other magazines. Online appearances include Zygote in My Coffee, Thunder Sandwich, Laura Hird's Website, Word Riot.  He has performed his work in London, Cambridge, Colchester, Chelmsford, at the Wessex Festival and at 2003’s Dulwich Festival. His books include Between the Alleyways at the World’s Fair. In June 2000 he launched his website The Ragged Edge (www.raggededge.btinternet.co.uk) for his own outpourings. Then he started including the work of other writers in it on ‘The Other Side of the Ragged Edge.’

Rupert Mallin: Over 400 poems published in magazines, two plays broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and others performed in theatre. Increasingly I work in collaboration with other artists in all mediums on large scale projects, details of which appear on my website http://rupertmallin.info

Note: "Rumours of Heather's death are unfounded. Her recent emigration to New Zealand makes my correspondence with her even more compelling - as is attendance on a local boat building course."

Douglas Messerli has published several collections of poetry, including Dinner on the Lawn, Some Distance, River to Rivet, Maxims from My Mother's Milk, and Along Without: A Fiction in Film for Poetry, volume I of his trilogy, The Structure of Destruction. The second volume in that trilogy, his long poetic/performative piece, The Walls Come True was published by Littoral Books in 1995. In 1998 his collection of poetry, After was published to much acclaim. In 1999 his epistolary fiction, part III of The Structure of Destruction, Letters from Hanusse was published under the pseudonym of Joshua Haigh. His book, Bow Down, with art by John Baldessari, was published in English and Italian in 2002. Another collection, First Words appeared in 2004, and that same year saw the publication, under his dramatic pseudonym of Kier Peters, of A Dog Tries to Kiss the Sky: Six Short Plays. A selection of his work, titled primeiras palavras recently was translated and published in Portuguese in Brazil. He has two books forthcoming, Dark and Between, and is currently working on a collection to be titled Stay, sectionions of which have been printed in various journals and web magazines as “Circumstances of Better Times.” Beginning in 2006, Messerli will publish an annual volume of what he describes as an “ongoing cultural memoir,” My Year 2006: Terrifying Times. His poetry has also been translated into French, Serbian, Spanish, Romanian, and Chinese.

    Under the pen name Kier Peters, he has written eight plays, among them The Confirmation, produced in July 1994 in New York, Past Present and Future Tense performed also in 1994 in San Francisco, and A Dog Tries to Kiss the Sky, performed in San Francisco in 1997 and in at Theatre of Note in Los Angeles in 1999. Michael Kowalski took the text of Past Present and Future Tense for his 1996 opera, Still in Love, which was issued as a CD.

    A former professor of literature at Temple University in Philadelphia, Dr. Messerli has been the Director of The Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc. since its establishment in 1984 and Publisher of its Sun & Moon Press, which began its publishing activities as a magazine in 1976. The magazine won the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazine's Award for outstanding publishing, and the press won the Carey-Thomas Award for Creative Publishing in 1987. The Press was one of the first literary presses to receive an NEA Advancement Grant, and has received numerous NEA grants, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest grant for promotion and publicity, and Andrew W. Mellon organizational grant in 1992, 1993, and 1994. In 1994 he was awarded the Harry Ford Editor's Award for Poetry given bi-annually by the National Poetry Series. In 1997 he began a new literary endeavor of pocket-sized belles-lettres books, Green Integer. In 1998 he received the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award for publishing. He also was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance for his own writing. Messerli has previously served on NEA Literature, Literature Advancement Panel, and and the Advancement II Final panels. He has actively served on several panels of the California Arts Council, including Literature and Poetry Fellowships. He has also served on County and Local arts organizational panels in California and Arizona. In 2004 he was named Officier de L’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government.

Rupert Loydell is Lecturer in Creative Writing at University College Falmouth, the Managing Editor of Stride Publications, Editor of Stride magazine, and a regular contributor of articles and reviews to Tangents magazine. Recent publications include A Conference of Voices, The Museum of Light and Endlessly Divisible, and four collaborative works. The Smallest Deaths has just been published by bluechrome