WILLIAM BAER is the author of Conversations with Derek Walcott, Elia Kazan: Interviews, and The Unfortunates, which received the 1997 T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize. His forthcoming collection is "Borges" and Other Sonnets (New Odyssey Press, Fall 2003). His work has appeared in Poetry, The London Magazine, The Kenyon Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, The Hudson Review, and other journals. He is also the founding editor of The Formalist, the poetry editor at Crisis, and the director of the Richard Wilbur Poetry Series.
ANNY BALLARDINI is a poet and translator who lives in Bozen, South Tyrol, Italy. She is the curator of the Poets’ Corner page supported by the local Pedagogical Institute.
MARIE-CLAIRE BANCQUART lives is an Emeritus Professor at the Sorbonne and has written 21 collections of poetry, six novels, and numerous critical texts. Over the course of her four-decade career, she has received six national poetry prizes and the country's three most prestigious awards for scholarly work. All poems printed in PSR 15 are from the collection Avec la mort, quartier d'orange entre les dents (Sens: Obsidiane, 2005).
DAVID BANKS was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1943. He has been writing and publishing poetry since the early 1970s. His Celt Seed: Selected Poems was published by Poetry Salzburg in 2003. He is at present Professor of English Linguistics at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, France.
DOUGLAS BARBOUR lives in Edmonton, Canada, where he teaches at the University of Alberta. He is the author of more than ten books of poetry, most recently A Flame on the Spanish Stairs (greenboathousebooks, 2002). He has written critical studies of Samuel R. Delany, Daphne Marlatt, John Newlove, bpNichol, and Michael Ondaatje. Lyric / Anti-Lyric: Essays on Contemporary Poetry was published by NeWest Press in 2001.
WALTER BARGEN's most recent books are The Feast (BkMk Press, 2004), West of West (Timberline Press, 2007), Remedies for Vertigo (2006), and Theban Traffic (2008; both WordTech Communications). His poems have appeared recently in the Beloit Poetry Journal, Poetry East, Seattle Review, and New Letters. In 2008 he was appointed the first Missouri Poet Laureate.
CHRISTOPHER BARNES lives in Newcastle. He won a Northern Arts writers award in 1998. His first collection of poems, Lovebites, was published by Chanticleer Press in 2005. He has been involved in Fivearts Cities' poetry postcard event, which exhibited at Seven Stories children's literature building, as well as a solo art/poetry exhibition at The People's Theatre. He is working on a collaborative art and literature project with Lisa Matthews titled How Gay Are Your Genes.
JOHN BARNIE has published 15 collections of poetry, fiction and essays. His essay collection, The King of Ashes (Gomer, 1989), won a Welsh Arts Council Prize for Literature in 1990. He has performed widely, playing guitar, with the blues and poetry bands The Salubrious Rhythm Company and Y Bechgyn Drwg/The Bad Boys. From 1985 to 2006 he was editor of the cultural magazine Planet: The Welsh Internationalist. Sea Lilies: Selected Poems 1984-2003 was published in summer 2006 by Seren.
CYNTHIA BAROUNIS studies Literature at Knox College in Galesberg, Illinois. She is from Niles, Illinois.
ANJANA BASU is a writer based in India. Her poems have been published in Kunapipi, Recursive Angel and Pif, amongst others.
FRED BEAKE lived in Bath (1972-2003), and then moved to Torquay. He holds a Classics degree from Bristol University. He edited The Poet's Voice (1982-2000), and also Mammon Press. Publications include Towards the West (1995) and Places and Elegies (1997, both Salzburg UP), The Cyclops (Menard, 2002), The Bees of the Horizon (Etruscan, 2005), and New and Selected Poems (Shearsman, 2006).
JEFFERY BEAM lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina and works as a botanical librarian at UNC-Chapel Hill. His works include The Fountain (NC Wesleyan CP, 1992), Visions of Dame Kind (Jargon Society, 1995), An Elizabethan Bestiary: Retold (Horse & Buggy, 1999), and Gospel Earth (Longhouse online, 2004). His spoken-word CD, What We Have Lost (Green Finch), was published in 2002. The Beautiful Tendons is forthcoming from Lethe Press and White Crane Institute. He is poetry editor of Oyster Boy Review.
VICTORIA BEAN studied Creative Writing while at the Royal College of Art, London. Her work was published in painted, spoken and Penumbra.
WILLIAM BEDFORD has published poetry, short stories and essays in Agenda, Critical Quarterly, The Daily Telegraph, The Dalhousie Review, Delta, Encounter, Essays in Criticism, The Independent, London Magazine, London Review of Books, The Malahat Review, Poetry, Poetry Review, The Southern Review, and The Washington Times. Founding editor of Enigma, editor of Delta, editor of three special editions of Agenda on Robert Lowell, Peter Dale and Seamus Heaney.
NAZAND BEGIKHANI, born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1964. Living in exile (Denmark, France and later UK) since 1987. PhD in Comparative Literature at Sorbonne University, France. She has published two poetry collections in Kurdish, Yesterday of Tomorrow (Paris 1995) and Celebrations (Arras, 2004). She is a polyglot, self-translates her poetry into French and English, and translated Baudelaire and Eliot into Kurdish. She is working as sub-editor for the BBC.
EMILY C. BELLI is a senior at Columbia University, and the executive editor for Quarto - the university's oldest undergraduate student-run literary journal. Originally from Switzerland, she is trilingual (native French speaker) and works part-time as a freelance translator. Her poetry has been published in Spoon River Poetry Review, The Columbia Review, and Iodine Poetry Journal.
M. J. BENDER was born in Michigan and currently resides in New Jersey. Featured in Origin 5.3 and is now working on her fourth book of poetry. Received a Ph.D. in American Literature from Columbia University and has been teaching at university level for the past five years.
CHRIS BENDON's most recent three books are the poetry collection Jewry (1995), Crossover (a Verse-Drama, 1996), and Novella (a Novel Poem, 1997; all U of Salzburg P).
LUIS BENÍTEZ was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1956. He has published two collections of poetry, Selected Poems (Luz Bilingual Publishing, 1996) and La yegua de la noche (Ediciones del Castillo, 2001).
PETER BENNET lives in Northumberland near the Wild Hills o' Wanney. He has published five books of poetry. He is a co-editor of Other Poetry magazine. His new collection The Glass Swarm is the Poetry Book Society Choice for Autumn 2008. He is short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Award 2009.
MARTIN BENNETT lives in Rome where he works as a translator and teacher at the University of Tor Vergata. A previous volume of his poems, Loose Watches (1997), was published by the University of Salzburg Press.
ANNE BERESFORD. Brought up and educated in London. Studied Acting and Music. Now lives in Suffolk. She has published 13 books of poetry and one book of translations, among them The Lair (Rapp & Whiting, 1968), The Curving Shore (1975), Selected Poems (both Agenda Editions, 1997), and Hearing Things (Katabasis, 2002). Her Collected Poems will be published by Katabasis in September 2006.
SARA BERNAL-RUTTER, born in Brazil, has studied Museology at the University of Rio de Janeiro, post-graduate studies in Political Sciences. During the 1980s she participated in various poetical performances in universities, schools, bars and other places as part of a group of writers called "Marginalia". Today she lives in Vienna, Austria. She is also a painter and photographer.
DAVID BERRIDGE lives in London. Poems and sequences can be found in Fire, Shearsman, and online at Great Works, Fascicle, and Word For/Word. One chapbook, Career Choices (Furniture, 2006).
ROBERT JAMES BERRY lives & writes in Auckland, New Zealand. His first collection, Smoke, appeared in 2000 (Serdang, Malaysia: UPM Press). Since then Ginninderra Press, Canberra, Australia published three of his collections: Stone (2004), Seamark (2005), and Sky Writing (2006).
EMANUELE BETTINI, poet and historian of the Italian Risorgimento, has been translated into various languages (French, Spanish, English, Greek, Maltese, Serbo-Croation, Arabic). His poetry publications include: E poi il bianco (1966); Il fuoco del silenzio (1967); Oltre la polvere (1970); Poesie (1972); Punto lontano (1975); La tenerezza della falce (Levante Editori, 1991); Approdo Mediterraneo (Book Editore, 1995 - Premio internazionale Eugenio Montale), Ritorno a Babele (Campanotto, 2001). He is a member of the Eugenio Montale International Centre in Rome. He represented Italy at the international festival in Athens-Delphi (2001) on the occasion of World Poetry Day, organized by Unesco. He is the founder-editor - since 1987 - of the international literature magazine Si scrive. He is Secretary General of P.E.N. Italy. Recently the Italian government granted him the honour of Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica for his international work.
A. C. BEVAN's first pamphlet collection Of Sea-Graves & Sand-Shrines was published by Arc in 2001. His poems have appeared in Poetry Review, the SHOp, and Caveat Lector. He lives and works in Bristol.
GUY BIRCHARD. Still of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. Publications: Baby Grand (Brick Books, 1979), Neckeverse (Galloping Dog Press, 1989), Birchard's Garage (Pig Press, 1991), Twenty Grand: the fin de siecle poems (Pressed Wafer, 2003).
RAJ BISARIA teaches at the National School of Drama in New Delhi, India.
PATRICIA BISHOP lives in Lechlade, Gloucestershire. She won a BBC/Arts Council Award and consequently broadcast her work on Radio 3. She came second in the National Poetry Competition and won an open competition organised by the Arts Council/C.D.C. For four years she was poet-in-residence at the Penwith Public Libraries. Oversteps published Times Doppelgänger in 2002 and intend publishing her fifth collection this year.
R. G. BISHOP was born in Clapham, London in 1936. His interest in writing started when working at the London Evening News and Guardian Libraries. A teaching career began at the Watford College of Further Education after which he moved to Munich in 1972 to teach English at the Sprachen-und-Dolmetscher Institut. This is where he still works today. His bi-lingual collection Other Moments was published by Original Plus in 1999.
LINDA BLACK studied Fine Art at Leeds Art College and Etching at The Slade School. She ran Apollo Etching Studio in London and has exhibited widely. Her poems have appeared in various magazines including Magma, Other Poetry, Shearsman, Smiths Knoll, Staple, and The Wolf. She was recipient of the 2004/5 Poetry School Scholarship. A pamphlet of her poems, The Beating of Wings (Hearing Eye, 2006) was a PBS recommendation. She was the winner of the New Writing Ventures 2006 Poetry Award.
ANNE BLONSTEIN lives in Basel, Switzerland, where she earns a living as a freelance translator and editor. She has published two volumes of poetry - the blue pearl (Salt Publishing, 2003) and worked on screen (Poetry Salzburg, 2005) - and three chapbooks - sand.soda.lime (Broken Boulder Press, 2002), that those lips had language (Plan B Press, 2005) and from eternity to personal pronoun (Heliotrope Press, forthcoming).
THOMAS BLOUNT, see JOW LINDSAY.
JEAN BOASE-BEIER is a translator and lecturer in linguistics, German and literary translation at the University of East Anglia. She is editor of the Arc Publications bilingual poetry series "Visible Poets".
ROBYN BOLAM (formerly published as Marion Lomax) is Professor of Literature at St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. She has published three collections with Bloodaxe, the most recent of which is New Wings: Poems 1977-2007. She has also written extensively on early modern literature and contemporary poetry. She is the editor of the anthology Eliza's Babes: Four Centuries of Women's Poetry in English, c. 1500-1900 (Bloodaxe, 2005).
Born in Dublin in 1959, DERMOT BOLGER is the author of eight novels, including The Journey Home (Viking, 1990) Father's Music (Flamingo, 1997) and The Valparaiso Voyage (Flamingo, 2001), eight plays including The Lament for Arthur Cleary (The Project Theatre, 1989) - which received the Samuel Beckett Prize - and several volumes of poetry. Editor of The Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Fiction (Picador, 1993), he was the instigator and editor of the best-selling collaborative novel, Finbar's Hotel (New Island Books, 1997)
SEAN BONNEY is contributing editor to Pores, an avant-gardist journal of poetics, and co-organizer of the reading series Crossing the Line. Recent books: Notes on Heresy (Writers Forum, 2002), Poisons, their antidotes (West House, 2003), Blade Pitch Control Unit (Salt, 2005), Document: hexprogress (Yt Communication, 2006), and Baudelaire in English (Veer, 2008). Together with Frances Kruk he edits the press Yt Communication. He lives in London.
JORGE LUIS BORGES, the Argentinean poet, critic, essayist and short story writer, was born in Buenos Aires in 1899. During his distinguished literary career he won numerous international awards, including honorary degrees from Columbia and Oxford universities. His books include Labyrinths, Ficciones, Dreamtigers and The Aleph and Other.
ANNE BORN, poet, reviewer, translator and publisher, lives mainly in South Devon. As well as poetry, she writes regional history and recently published a revised and updated version of A History of Kingsbridge and Salcombe. Translations over the past few years include three novels from the Danish of Jens Christian Grøndahl, Silence in October, Lucca (both 2002), and Virginia (2003, all Canongate) and a second novel by Per Petterson, Norwegian, In the Wake (Harvill) appeared in 2003; a third, Out to Steal Horses, is due in 2005.
PETROS BOURGOS is a Greek poet writing in English. He studied film-making in London and was involved in short film and video projects for a number of years. Kater Murr's Press published his the boat ... in 1998.
IAIN BRITTON is published internationally in such magazines as Orbis, Harvard Review, Rattapallax, Poetry NZ, Agenda, Ambit, Jacket, and Stand. Cinnamon Press will be publishing his first collection in February 2008.
JAMES BROCKWAY (1916-2000) made his home in Holland after the Second World War and busied himself introducing English novelists to the Dutch and Dutch poets to the English. He published five books of Dutch poetry in translation as well as some seven hundred other placings of Dutch poetry in English periodicals. For this work, James received the prestigious Martinus Nijhoff Prize in 1966 and was awarded a knighthood in the Netherlands in 1997. A collection of his own poetry, No Summer Song, had been published by the Fortune Press in 1949 but he laid poetry aside in a flurry of other activities. In the 1990s, however, he began to write again in his own voice. A Way of Getting Through (1995) and The Brightness in Between (2000) were published by Rockingham Press. James died on 15 December 2000. He was a regular subscriber and contributor to The Poet's Voice and visited the University of Salzburg in 1996 giving both a guest-lecture on his work as translator and critic and a poetry reading. A long interview with James is included in Wolfgang Görtschacher's Contemporary Views on the Little Magazine Scene (2000).
DAVID BROOKS, poet, essayist, photographer and fiction writer, teaches Australian Literature at the University of Sydney. His latest collection of poetry is Walking to Point Clear (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2004). His novel, The House of Balthus, was translated into German and published by Kindler in 1999 as Das Haus von Balthus. The same novel has just been published in Poland as Dom Balthusa (wydawnictwo dom na wsi, 2004).
ROBERT S. BROWN was born in Manchester in 1986, and later brought up in Shropshire. He is currently undertaking undergraduate study in Illustration at the University of Gloucestershire in Cheltenham.
THEO BROWN has been brought up in an ancient house in Somerset which has imbued him with a romantic dreamer's spirit. He enjoys walking through the countryside and discovering forgotten places. He is currently studying Classics in London.
LINDA BRYANT is a native of Arizona. She teaches Art at Phoenix Country Day School. Her poetry has been published by many small presses, including Spoor, Longhouse, Pearl and Kater Murr’s Press. A selection of her poems appeared in How the Net Is Gripped (Stride, 1991).
LESLIE BUCHANAN studied graphics and illustration at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. She is currently working in watercolor, painting abstracts and landscapes. The Sonora Desert, where she lives, is the focus of her landscapes and also informs her abstract work.
NORMAN BULLER was educated at Fircroft College, Birmingham and St. Catharine's College, Cambridge where he graduated in English. He has worked in industry but his main occupation has been in university careers ad-visory work. He lives with his wife in retirement in the Malvern Hills on the border of Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Poetry collections: Travelling Light (2005) and Sleeping with Icons (2007, both Waterloo Press).
MARTIN BURKE, though born in Limerick, has lived for over twenty years in Belgium. First poems appeared in Ireland in the 1970s in such magazines as New Irish Writing, New Poetry, and The Stonythursday Book. With the move to Belgium poetry all but ceased and it is only in the past year that it has once again returned. Recent poems have or are due to be published in Drunken Boat, The Lilliput Review (both U.S.A.) and in the U.K. in The Richmond Review and Shearsman.
SEAN BURN is a writer, artist and performer who tours, exhibits, collaborates and publishes internationally. He is currently under commission to half moon theatre - and his play for them - cutter - tours from September 2004. Skrev press published his first full length collection of prose in summer 2004.
ELIZABETH BURNS has published two collections of poetry, Ophelia (Polygon, 1991) and The Gift of Light (diehard, 1999). She lives in Lancaster.
SUE BUTLER has an Eric Gregory Award for poetry, an MA in Poetry from the University of East Anglia, has written a libretto for the London Sinfonietta, made a First Take film and retold six Dickens novels for an illustrated book for children. After university she worked for banks, telecommunications companies, Opera North and Anglia TV, before becoming the Information Officer for the Malaysian Rubber Board. Her poetry collections include: Learning to Improvise (Rockingham, 1994), The Mammoth's Knee (Smith/Doorstop, 1996), Via Leeds to Lake Ladoga (Redbeck, 1997), and Vanishing Trick (Smith/Doorstop, 2004).
MAGGIE BUTT's first pamphlet Quintana Roo was published by Acumen in 2003. About 50 of her poems have appeared in magazines including Smiths Knoll, Orbis, and Scintilla, and she has had one poem read on BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please. She runs the Creative & Media Writing programme at Middlesex University, London, and is an ex-journalist and BBC TV documentary maker.
MAIRÉAD BYRNE (born 1957) is an Irish poet who immigrated to the United States in 1994. She earned a PhD in English Literature from Purdue University in 2001 and lives with her two daughters in Providence, Rhode Island, where she teaches poetry at Rhode Island School of Design. Author of 3 collections, Talk Poetry (Miami UP, 2007), SOS Poetry (/ubu Editions, 2007), and Nelson & The Huruburu Bird (Wild Honey Press, 2003), five chapbooks, and two plays.
ANN BYRNE-SUTTON grew up in Glastonbury. She studied Medicine at Bristol University, after which marriage and mountaineering took her to Geneva where she worked as staff medical officer to the WHO and other UN organisations. Since then she has lived on the Pembrokeshire coast and completed an MA in Writing at Glamorgan University. Her first book of poetry, High June, was published by Starborn Books in 2002.