GYÖRGY FALUDY (1910-2006) left Hungary in time to fight the Second World War with the American Air Force, returned to be imprisoned by the Communists on trumped-up charges and went into his second exile after the 1956 rebellion against Soviet rule. In 1989 he returned home after more than three decades of self-imposed exile to receive a tumultuous welcome. He edited the Hungarian literary journal Irodalmi Ujság [Literary Gazette] in London (1957- 1960), taught at Columbia University and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto for services to literature. His most important works, some of them published in up to 45 editions: Francois Villon balladái [The Ballads of Francois Villon] (1937), My Happy Days in Hell (autobiography, trans. Kathleen Szasz, 1962), Test és lélek [Body and Soul] (1988), 200 szonett [200 Sonnets] (1990), 100 könnyü szonett [100 Light Sonnets] (1995), and Viharos évszázad [Turbulent Century] (2002). English translations of his poetry have been collected in East and West, ed. John Robert Colombo, and Selected Poems, trans. Robin Skelton (both Hounslow Press, Toronto, 1985). He died on 3 September 2006, just two weeks short of his 96th birthday.
MARK FARRELL is a Canadian from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, who has been living in the Czech Republic for over ten years. At present he is teaching at Charles University in Prague. His work has appeared in many journals including Poesy, Rockhurst Review, Other Poetry, Keystone, Pennine Platform, and Erbacce.
KENNETH D. FARROW (b. 1963) is a graduate of Stirling and Glasgow Universities. He completed a Ph.D. in Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Literature at Glasgow in 1989. In 1991, he became a post-doctoral research Fellow of the British Academy and carried out his studies on Scottish historiography. From 1994-96 he was British Council Lecturer in Modern English Philology at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. He is currently Reviews Editor of Lallans Magazine and a Ph.D. mentor for Warnborough University. In 1998 he completed a full-length translation into Scots of Homer’s The Iliad.
CLIVE FAUST was born in Melbourne before WW2 and lived in Japan for some years. Featured in Origin in 1978, 4th Series No. 4, and has published 5 volumes of verse since, 3 with Origin Press and a Selected entitled Cold's Determination (University of Salzburg Press, 1996). Worked as pay clerk, but settled down back from Japan aged forty, as a sub-academic in Bendigo not teaching literature, in an institution much like the one Zukofsky taught at. Retired and vegetating like a noxious weed, though no longer casting seed.
PETER FINCH was born in Cardiff where he still lives. After many years running the Oriel Bookshop he now heads Academi, the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency. He is a regular performer of his own poetry. His work has always had a left-leaning, experimental edge. His books include volumes on the publishing scene and advise for new writers, a collection of short fiction and innumerable collections of verse. His most recent are Antibodies (Stride, 1997), Useful (Seren, 1997) and Food (Seren, 2001). He is currently working on a book about Cardiff. You can sample his work and ambition at www.peterfinch.co.uk.
JENNIFER FIRESTONE currently teaches poetry workshops at Hunter College in New York City. Her work has recently appeared in numerous literary journals, and her chapbook, snapshot, has just been published by Sona Books.
ALLEN FISHER is a poet and painter, living in Hereford and London. He has been writing since 1962, worked with Fluxus in the early 1970s, edited SPANNER since 1974, and started painting in 1978. He is working on a long poetry sequence Gravity as a Consequence of Shape (of which "Wobble" is a part) and a painting and installation series Traps or Tools and Damage. He lectures on drawing and art history at University of Surrey Roehampton.
LISA FISHMAN's poems have appeared in recent issues of Colorado Review, Indiana Review and Beloit Poetry Journal. She has poems anthologized in American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon, 2000) and is circulating a new manuscript. The Deep Heart's Core Is a Suitcase was published in 1996 by New Issues Press. Her second collection, DEAR, READ, was published by ahsahta press in 2002. In addition to farming in Southern Wisconsin with her husband, Fishman teaches at Beloit College and was recently Writer-in-Residence at the Chicago Arts Program in Chicago.
JANICE FIXTER was born in Kent and has lived in South East London ever since. She has an MA in Creative Writing, the Arts and Education and a D.Phil. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Sussex University. She has been published in Agenda, Smiths Knoll, Tears in the Fence, Staple, Iota and other magazines. In 1997 Poets Anonymous published her chapbook Walking Away from the Shadows. tall-lighthouse published her pamphlet walking the hawk (2005) and her collection a kind of slow motion (2007).
S. P. FLANNERY lives in Madison, Wisconsin. His poetry has appeared in Mobius, Hummingbird, Avocet, Sidereality, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry, Lily, Spillway Review, Electric Acorn, Free Verse, and Plum Ruby Review.
MATTHEW FLUHARTY completed his M.A. in creative writing at The Poet's House in Falcarragh, County Donegal (Ireland). His poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Black Mountain Review, Notre Dame Review, LIT, The Beloit Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. An earlier version of "Hibernia" was broadcast on BBC Radio Three.
ANDREW FORSTER was born in Yorkshire but has lived in Scotland since 1987. He has been published in magazines like The Rialto, Acumen, Obsessed with Pipework, Lines Review, Cencrastus, and others. Flarestack published his pamphlet Dress Rehearsals in 2000. His first collection Fear of Thunder was published by Flambard in 2007.
ULLI FREER. Born in Lunenburg, Germany. Studied at Hornsey College of Art and the Open University. He works as artist, performer, writer and erstwhile publisher, active since the late 1960s. His work is published widely in magazines and book publications include Blvd.s (Equipage, 1994), Eyeline (Spanner, 1996), Speakbright Leap Passwood: Selected and New Poems (Salt, 2003). Works in anthologies include - the new british poetry (Paladin, 1988), Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 (Wesleyan UP, 1999), Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems (Salt, 2004). He has performed his work in the UK, Austria, France, Poland, Ukraine and the U.S.A. 2002-4 lead a poetry workshop at Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck College, University of London.
MICHAEL FREY is a doctor of medicine and an associate professor at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York City. His recent publications include poetry and short stories in Blotter, Samsara, WestWard Quarterly, Illogical Muse, Always Looking, Foliate Oak, and Chantarelle's Notebook.
LEAH FRITZ has had three volumes of her poetry published in the U.K. since moving there from New York in 1985: From Cookie to Witch Is an Old Story (1987), Somewhere en Route (1992), and The Way to Go (1999, all Loxwood Stoneleigh). In the United States she was mainly known for her essays and journalism, which culminated in two non-fiction books about American politics in the 1960s and 1970s. In Britain, her poetry and other writings have appeared in The Guardian, Acumen, Ambit, PN Review, and Poetry Review.
DU FU (also known in English as Tu Fu) lived from 712-770 at the height of the Tang dynasty in China. He is considered by many to be the greatest poet in Chinese literature. Du Fu's poetry was highly formal in style and directly personal in content. His work is filled with his concerns about his country, family, friends, and his own failures and tribulations. "Spring View" and "Grieving the Defeat at Green Slope" both describe events from the long civil war that beset China during Du Fu's later years.
JO FURBER has recently completed an MPhil on Peter Redgrove's poetry at University of Wales, Swansea. She has worked as the Dylan Thomas Project Officer at Swansea's Dylan Thomas Centre for the last five years.
MICHAELA A. GABRIEL (born 1971) lives in Vienna, Austria, where she assists adults in acquiring computer and English skills, and gets together with the muse as often as possible. Her first chapbook, apples for adam, was published by FootHills in January 2005.
JEREMY GADD holds a Bachelor of Dramatic Art degree from the National Institute of Dramatic Art, an MA (Hons) from the University of New England and is a Writing Fellow of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (NSW Branch). His plays More Champagne and Realities have been professionally produced for the stage (the former was also broadcast on radio by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and a third play, Camera Capers, was staged by the amateur Balmain Village Players in Sydney in 1995. He has also published a novel, Escaping the Triad (Holy Angels Book Design & Publishing, 1998). He is currently employed on an Australian Research Council funded project.