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Scott Thurston began writing in the poetry scene situated around Gilbert Adair’s Sub-Voicive Poetry reading series and Bob Cobbing’s New River Project workshops in London in the late eighties. His books include: Poems Nov 89 - Jun 91 (Writers Forum, 1991), State(s)walk(s) (Writers Forum, 1994) and Turns (with Robert Sheppard) (Ship of Fools/Radiator, 2003). He has just published a full-length collection called Hold: Poems 1994-2004 with Shearsman (2006). He lectures in English and Creative Writing at The University of Salford and lives in Liverpool. He edits The Radiator, a journal of contemporary poetics.

Leonard Gontarek’s Déjà Vu Diner was published by Autumn House Press in 2006. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Fence, Field, Volt, and The Best American Poetry 2005. He was a 2004 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Poetry Fellow. www.leafscape.org/LeonardGontarek
 
Nathan Thompson has  lived in Exeter for the last few years and has recently had work published in, or accepted for, The Interpreter’s House and Fire.
 
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). In 2004 she was equal runner-up for the Gwen Harwood Memorial Prize.
 
David Grubb's most recent collections are The Elephant In The Room, published by Driftwood.and Out Of The Marvellous published by Oleander. The Colour Bird, fiction, is seeking a publisher.
 

Pierre Reverdy (1889-1960) was a French poet revered by André Breton, and an important influence on different Anglo-American poets, such as Kenneth Rexroth, John Ashbery and Tom Raworth. Born in south-western France, the son of a wine-grower, Reverdy moved to Paris in 1910 and founded the influential review Nord-Sud with Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire. Never at ease in Paris, Reverdy left in 1926 and lived a mainly isolated  existence for the rest of his life near the Abbey of Solesmes.