Andy Brown is the author of five
collections of poetry and several edited volumes. His New & Selected Poems 1996-2006 is published by Salt this
year. Salt will also publish Goose Music, a book of poems co-written with John Burnside. In 2006 Stride publish
his edited anthology The Allotment: new lyric poets. He lives with his wife and two children in Exeter
where he is Director of the Centre for Creative Writing at the University.
Annie Clarkson writes both prose and poetry. Her writing has been published in Mslexia, QWF, and most recently in a book about
her involvement in a collaborative writing project called The Big Picture, available from www.litfest.org
Alan Dent has published five books of poetry the most recent being Who(Shoestring) and Town (Smokestack).
His anthology of modern French poetry in translation is due from Smokestack Books this year. Since 1995 he has edited The
Penniless Press.
Lea Graham’s poems have been published in the Notre Dame
Review, the Worcester Review and recently in Mudlark and Moria (where you can still easily find them
on-line). She is originally from Northwest Arkansas, but currently lives and teaches poetry in Worcester,
Massachusetts at Clark University. She has lived in the Dominican Republic
and Costa Rica and has traveled throughout the Spanish-speaking Caribbean,
Mexico and Central America. On her translations
of Gabriela Mistral, the Chilean poet, Lea comments:
‘These
are close translations of different periods of her work, but I think hold together through a sense of loss. Mistral
changed her name from Lucilia Godoy as she took on a public role in her home country and then later, as an ambassador, abroad--which
is one of the many losses addressed in these poems.’
C.
J. Allen’s poetry has been widely published in magazines – from Modern
Painters to Poetry Review - and has also been broadcast on various BBC Radio stations. A prize-winner in
numerous poetry competitions, his three previous collections are:
The
Art of Being Late for Work (Amazing/Colossal Press 1994), Elfshot (Waldean Press
1997) and How Copenhagen Ended (Leafe Press 2003).
A Strange
Arrangement: New & Selected Poems is forthcoming from Leafe Press later this year.
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.
Mark Halliday teaches at Ohio University. His books of poems are Little Star (1987), Tasker Street(1992), Selfwolf (1999), and Jab
(2002).
