The Persian lyric poet HAFIZ was born around 1320 in Shiraz, Iran and died there around 1390. Shams Al-Din Muhammad acquired the name Hafiz through memorizing the whole of the Qur'an at an early age. His love lyrics (ghazals) are acclaimed as the finest ever written in Persian. He has also written other forms of poetry of which samples are translated here. His poetry survives in his Divan / Diwan (collected poems). It inspired Goethe's Westöstlicher Diwan (1819).
MIRIAM HALAHMY has published fiction for adults and two poetry collections. Her cycle of three young adult novels has been taken by Meadowside Books. The first title, Hidden, will be published in March 2011. She runs writing workshops and is a member of the Highgate Poetry Society.
CATHERINE HALES lives in Berlin, where she works as a translator. Her books of poetry include hazard or fall (Shearsman, 2010) and a bestiary of so[nne][r]ts (Oystercatcher Press, 2010) and translations of German poet Norbert Hummelt in Berlin Fresco (Shearsman, 2010). Her poems have been translated into German and Czech. She is co-ordinator of Poetry Hearings, Berlin's festival of poetry in English.
JUNE HALL, a former book editor with Faber and Faber, lives and works in Bath. Her work was published in, among others, Acumen, Agenda, Equinox, French Literary Review, and Interpreter's House. She has two published collections from Belgrave Press: the now of snow (2004) and bowing to winter (2010).
ALYSON HALLETT was brought up in Street, Somerset, and currently lives in Hartland, Devon. Landscapes and cityscapes, travel and transition are the core ingredients of her work. Her first collection, The Stone Library, was published by Peterloo Poets in 2007.
IAIN HALLIDAY was born in Scotland but now lives in Sicily where he teaches and researches English language and translation at the University of Catania. His translations from Italian into English include: Giovanni Verga's A Mortal Sin [Una peccatrice] (Quartet, 1995); Claudio Magris's Microcosms (Harvill, 1999); Valerio Manfredi's Alexander (Macmillan, 2001-2002); Pierluigi Collina's The Rules of the Game (Macmillan, 2003).
MICHAEL HAMBURGER was born in Berlin in 1924 to a German-Jewish family that emigrated to England in 1933. He served as an infantryman from 1943-47 and read Modern Languages at Oxford. After an academic career in England and America, he settled in Suffolk. He has won many prizes and awards for his translations, including the Schlegel-Tieck prize three times, and has translated - among others - from Baudelaire, Celan, Hölderlin and Enzensberger. His acclaimed critical study The Truth of Poetry (Penguin) was published in 1969. His Collected Poems (Anvil, 1995), drawing on some twenty earlier books, has been followed by four more, most recently Wild and Wounded (Anvil, 2004). In 2004 Anvil Press also reissued his Hölderlin: Poems and Fragments and Peter Huchel: The Garden of Theophrastus. He died in 2007.
Since graduating from the University of East Anglia in Norwich in 1989 SHEILA HAMILTON has lived in Hungary and Scotland and has three children. Her first pamphlet is entitled The Monster in the Rose Garden (Flarestack, 2001). She has had poems published in The Rialto and Poetry London, among others. Poetry Salzburg published her first collection, Corridors of Babel, in 2007.
CHRISTINE HAMM is a PhD candidate in English Literature and teaches English at CUNY. She won the MiPoesias Chapbook Competition with her manuscript, Children Having Trouble with Meat. Her poetry has been published in Failbetter, Pebble Lake Review, Women's Studies Quarterly, Lodestar Quarterly, Blue Earth Review, Rattle, and many others. Two collections: The Transparent Dinner (Mayapple Press, 2006) and Saints & Cannibals (Plain View Press, 2010).
J. SCOTT HARDIN is an analyst for a health management company in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from San Jose State University in Modern European History before studying and teaching as a Doctoral Fellow at Tulane University and the Freie Universität Berlin. His poetry recently debuted in The Café Review.
EMMA HARDING is 28 and lives in London, where she is a radio producer for the BBC. Her poems have previously been published in Acumen, Orbis, Mslexia and Iota.
ALAN HARDY is a director of an English language school for foreign students. He had poems published in Orbis, Poetry Nottingham, Iota, The Interpreter's House, Envoi, Poetry Monthly, and other magazines. Poetry pamphlets: asted Leaves (Aramby, 1996), I Went With Her (Poetry Monthly Press, 2007).
DANIEL Y. HARRIS is Adjunct Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the Department of Sociology at Sonoma State University. He has been Poetry Editor of the Internet literary journal Muse Apprentice Guild. His chapbook, Unio Mystica, will be published by Cross-Cultural Communications in 2007. His recent publication credits include The Pedestal Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, Convergence, The Denver Quarterly, Panoply, and Shampoo. The Jewish Community Library of San Francisco, Market Street Gallery, The Euphrat Museum and The Center for Visual Arts are among his art exhibition credits.
JIM HART was raised in Brooklyn where he still resides. In the New York City Sanitation Department he served as Deputy Director of Public Affairs and Director of Correspondence for the Sanitation Police for thirty years. Recently his work as appeared in Pulsar Poetry Magazine, The Blind Man's Rainbow, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Red Owl Magazine, and Iconoclast.
LIBBY HART was born in 1971. Her first collection of poetry, Fresh News from the Arctic (Interactive Press, 2006), received the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Prize. She lives in Melbourne, Australia.
JAMES HARVEY lives in London. He was born in 1966. After leaving school, he studied with the Open University, and then went to University College London to study Biology.
ROGER HARVEY is a poet, novelist and radio writer born in 1953 and living in the North of England. His published novels include Percy the Pigeon (1987), The Silver Spitfire (1991) and A Woman Who Lives by the Sea (all Ulverscroft, 1992). Poetry collections: Northman's Prayer (Soundings, 1988), Raising the Titanic (Plowman, 1994), and Divided Attention (Grevatt & Grevatt, 1998). His plays Guinevere-Jennifer and Money! Money! Money! have been on tour in England and his screenplay of Guinevere-Jennifer was filmed. His latest book Poet on the Road (Bluechrome, 2006) is the intimate travelogue of his U.S. tour.
SIOBHAN HARVEY is a writer, reviewer and lecturer based in New Zealand. She is the author of two collections of poetry, and her work has appeared in magazines and anthologies in New Zealand, Australia, US, UK and Europe. She currently lectures and tutors Creative Writing at The University of Auckland.
SUZANNE R. HARVEY lectured for 19 years in the English Department at Stanford University in California. Upon retirement, she taught at Emeritus College in the San Francisco Bay Area for 7 years. Her poetry has appeared in Nth Position, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, SpeedPoets, and Concho River Review.
LEE HARWOOD, born 1939, lives by the sea in Brighton & Hove. A now redundant Post Office worker. Relatively recent books of poems - Morning Light (Slow Dancer Press, 1998); In the Mists: Mountain Poems (Slow Dancer Press, 1993); Rope Boy to the Rescue (North and South, 1988); Crossing the Frozen River: Selected Poems (Paladin, 1988).
ALAMGIR HASHMI is Pakistan's premier English-language poet. He has been writing poetry for the last forty years. Equally well-known as author of several scholarly books, he has been Professor of English and Comparative Literature in Pakistan, Europe and the United States.
EMILY HASLER was born in Felixstowe, Suffolk, UK in 1985. She studied English and Creative Writing at the University of Warwick where she completed an MA in Pan-Romanticism. This is her first publication in an international literary magazine.
OLI HAZZARD was born in Bristol in 1986. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in PN Review, Horizon Review, The Forward Book of Poetry 2010, The Best British Poetry 2011, The Salt Book of Younger Poets, and New Poetries V (Carcanet, 2011). He graduated with a First in English from University College London in 2008, and is currently a graduate student at the University of Bristol.
RANDOLPH HEALY (born 1956 in Scotland) studied Mathematical Sciences at Trinity College, Dublin. Beau Press published 25 Poems, edited by Maurice Scully, in 1983. The pamphlet Envelopes was published in 1996 by Cambridge Poetical Histories. He has published work in The Beau Magazine, Gargara, Angel Exhaust, West Coast Line, and The Poet's Voice. He runs Wild Honey Press.
BOB HEFFERNAN lives in Cork with his wife Marie and is currently studying toward a PhD in Mathematics.
MICHAEL HELLER, born in 1937, is an American poet, essayist and critic. He is recognized as a leading expert on Objectivist poets, poetry, and poetics. Among his many books are Accidental Center (Sumac Press, 1972), Knowledge (Sun Books, 1979), In the Builded Place (Coffee House Press, 1989), Wordflow (Talisman House, 1997), and Exigent Futures (Salt, 2003). His most recent collection is Eschaton (Talisman House, 2009). He wrote the libretto for the opera Benjamin, based on the life of Walter Benjamin.
PAUL HENRY was born in Aberystwyth in 1959 and currently lives in Gwent. In 1989 he received an Eric Gregory Award. He is the author of six collections of verse, the most recent of which is Ingrid's Husband (Seren, 2007). He has guest-edited Poetry Wales and is a popular Creative Writing tutor. He currently presents the Inspired series of arts programmes for BBC Radio Wales.
AMY MARIE HESS is 23 years old and lives in the smallest town of West Virginia. Her poetry has appeared recently in The Taj Mahal Review, Down in the Dirt, and Feelings of the Heart.
ROLAND H. HEYDER was born in 1956 in Singen, Germany. Since 1983 he has worked as a freelance artist. His work was exhibited in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the USA. The style of his paintings is a kind of Fantastic Realism in the tradition of Salvador Dali. He lives and works in Solingen.
GRAHAM HIGH is a poet, painter and sculptor based in South East London. He also works as a sculptor/effects designer for the film industry and is currently working on the forthcoming Dark Materials trilogy based on the Philip Pullman novels. He edits Blithe Spirit, the Journal of the British Haiku Society, and runs a small poetry publishing outfit, RAM Publications. His latest collection of poetry, Wolf on the Third Floor (New Hope International, 2000), contains poetry written in Russia where he lived for some time.
LEONORE HILDEBRANDT is a native of Germany, who moved to the USA in the wake of the back-to-the-land movement. She lives "off the grid" on the rugged coast of easternmost Maine. She teaches writing at the University of Maine and also serves as an editor for the Beloit Poetry Journal.
ROWENA HILL was born in England in 1938. Since 1974 she has lived in Venezuela, where she taught English Literature at the Universidad de Los Andes in Mérida. She has published four books of poems (in Spanish), as well as poems, essays and translations in periodicals in Venezuela, Colombia, India and USA. She has translated into English some of Venezuela's best known poets; her bilingual anthology of Venezuelan women poets, Perfiles de la Noche / Profiles of Night, was published by bid@co, Caracas, in 2006.
JEFF HILSON teaches Creative Writing at Roehampton University. His most recent book is stretchers (Reality Street Editions, 2006). The poems in this issue are part of a longer sequence called "Birds birds", selections of which can be found online in Robert Sheppard's Pages and in issue 4 of onedit as well as in print in Skald 24 (2007). Editor of The Contemporary Free Verse Sonnet (RSE, 2006).
JEREMY HILTON was born near Manchester in 1945. He took degrees in English and Social Work. Between 1972 and 1998 he worked in various social work posts. He has published twelve collections, most recently Slipstream (Ripostes, 2003) and Lighting Up Time: Selected Poems 1991-2004 (Troubadour, 2006). Since 1995 he has edited the poetry magazine Fire.
JACK HIRSCHMAN is the Poet-in-Residence with the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. He has published more than 100 books of poetry including some 60 of them as translations of poets from eight languages. His major work is The Arcanes, published in the American language by Multimedia Edizioni in Salerno, Italy in 2006. He lives in San Francisco where he has served as the 4th Poet Laureate of that city.
LYNNE HJELMGAARD grew up in New York City and is presently based in London. Her first book, Manhattan Sonnets, was published by Redbeck in 2003.
CHARLES HOBDAY is the author of Edgell Rickword: A Poet at War (Carcanet, 1989) and A Golden Ring: English Poets in Florence from 1373 to the Present Day (Peter Owen, 1998), and the editor of The Collected Poems of Edgell Rickword (Carcanet, 1991). He published four collections of poems, notably How Goes the Enemy? Selected Poems 1960-2000 (Mammon Press, 2000). His long dramatic poem, Elegy for a Sergeant (Lapwing, 2002), was his final collection. He died in London on 2 March 2005.
JODIE HOLLANDER, a poet and teacher originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was raised in a family of classical musicians. She currently resides in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and the rare, wild cassowary.
PAUL HOLMAN is the author of The Fabulist (1991) and The Memory of the Drift (2000). He was co-editor of Invisible Books in the 1990s. The poems printed here are part of a larger ongoing project made for the Field Study group.
NIGEL HOLT has lived and worked in the United Arab Emirates for a number of years. He has been most recently published in The Raintown Review, The Recusant, and Snakeskin. He is the editor of The Shit Creek Review.
KEITH HOLYOAK, born in 1950, was raised on a dairy farm in British Columbia, Canada. He is a poet and translator of classical Chinese poetry, as well as a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His poems and translations have been published in The London Magazine, Envoi, Measure, Poetry NZ, and Two Lines. Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu (2007) was published by Oyster River Press, and his spoken-word CDs are available through Broken Electric Records.
From Cullercoats (Tyneside), RIC HOOL moved to Wales in 1990 after five years journeying the islands and mainland of Spain. He now teaches in Blaenau, Gwent. Fifteen years ago he initiated the poetry readings at the Hen & Chickens in Abergavenny. He has published four collections of poetry, the latest, Voice from a Correspondent, from The Collective Press in 2002.
DANIELLE HOPE was born in Lancashire and now lives in London where she works as a doctor. She previously edited Zenos, a magazine of British and international poetry and is editorial advisor for Acumen now. She has published three collections: Fairground of Madness (1992), City Fox (2004), The Stone Ship (2004, all Rockingham Press).
JOSEPH HORGAN was born in England of Irish parents and now resides back in Ireland. In 2004 he was the winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award. Published among others in Prop, Agenda, Southword, The SHOp, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, Fortnight, and The Sunday Tribune. Slipping Letters Beneath the Sea (Doghouse, 2008) is his first collection. He also writes a weekly column for The Irish Post.
MATTHEW HOWARD is 32 years old and lives in Norwich. He works as a fundraiser for the RSPB. He recently completed a poetry MA at Manchester Metropolitan University. His poems were published in The Rialto, Magma, and The North.
FANNY HOWE (born 1940 in Buffalo, NY) is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose. Her recent collections of poetry include The Lyrics (2007), On the Ground (2004, both Graywolf), Gone (2003), Selected Poems (2000, both U of California P), and Forged (Post Apollo, 1999). She has lectured in Creative Writing at Tufts University, Emerson College, Columbia University, Yale University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
ANTHONY HOWELL is a poet and novelist whose first collection of poems, Inside the Castle, was brought out in 1969 by Barrie & Jenkins. In 1986 his novel In the Company of Others was published by Marion Boyars. Another novel Oblivion was published in 2006 by Grey Suit editions. In 1997 he was short-listed for a Paul Hamlyn Award for his poetry. His latest book of poems is The Ogre's Wife (Anvil, 2010).
BAI HUA (born in 1956 in Chongqing) read English literature at Guangzhou Foreign Language Institute before graduating with a Master's degree in Western Literary History from Sichuan University. His first collection of poems, Expression (1988), found immediate critical acclaim. After a silence of more than a decade, he began writing poetry again in 2007. That same year, his work garnered the prestigious Rougang Poetry Award. A prolific writer of critical prose and hybrid texts, Bai Hua is also a recipient of the Anne Kao Poetry Prize. Currently living in Chengdu, Sichuan, he is a professor at the Southwestern Transportation University. He is considered the central literary figure of the post-Misty Poetry movement during the 1980s and is next to Bei Dao, the most influential poet in contemporary China.
TOM HUBBARD took his Ph.D. at Aberdeen University and qualified as a librarian at Strathclyde University. In 1984 he became librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library. He has taught Scottish, European and American literatures and cultures at US, mainland European, and Scottish universities. His articles, essays, reviews and poems have appeared in a wide range of magazines and books in Scotland and mainland Europe. He is currently editor of the Bibliography of Scottish Literature in Translation (BOSLIT). His publications include Four Fife Poets (Aberdeen UP, 1988); The New Makars (ed., Mercat Press, 1991); Seeking Mr. Hyde (Peter Lang, 1995); The Integrative Vision: Poetry and the Visual Arts in Baudelaire, Rilke and MacDiarmid (1995).
GLYN HUGHES is the author of 6 volumes of verse, 6 novels, plus autobiographies and 5 radio plays. Latest volumes of verse are Life Class (Shoestring, 2009) and Dancing out of the Dark Side (Shoestring, 2005). He is a past winner of the Guardian Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Whitbread and the James Tait Black prizes. He lives in the North of England.
NORBERT HUMMELT was born in Neuss, Germany, in 1962 and lives in Berlin. His most recent books of poetry, all from Luchterhand, are Zeichen im Schnee [Signs in the Snow] (2001), Stille Quellen [Silent Springs] (2004), and Totentanz [Dance of Death] 2007. He has taught at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and until 2007 was editor of the Lyrik 2000 edition series. He has co-translated and edited a new edition of the poetry of W. B. Yeats and translated T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets and The Waste Land into German.
RAYMOND HUMPHREYS. Born in 1947 in London of Welsh family. Lived in Wales since 1972. Numerous magazine publications: Staple, Outposts, Gaelach Lan, Westwords, Odyssey, Panurge; non-fiction including a series of twenty essays on literary biography published in Writers' Monthly and a regular review column in Cambrensis. Books: Family Walks Around Swansea (Scarthin, 1993), The Time Traveller (Porto Franco, 1997), Nietzsche's Children (Geneze, 1998), and Living Words (Porto Franco, 1998).
PHILIP HYAMS, born in 1954 in Montreal, Quebec is a Canadian/Israeli novelist, poet, artist, journalist and film producer. His first novel, Canaan Barred, was published in 1995 by Tell Books. His poetry has been published in Isibongo Magazine (South Africa), Gravity Magazine, The Art Bin (Sweden), among others.