INNOCENZA ISTARTE has lived in London most of her life. She has recently had poems published in Anon, Harlequin, and Linkway.
VIACHESLAV IVANOV (1866-1949) was one of the most erudite of the Russian Symbolists. In 1924 he left Russia to live permanently in Italy till his death. His main collections of verse are Pilot Stars (1903), Transparency (1904), Eros (1907), Cor Ardens (1911) and Tender Mystery (1912). Evening Light came out as posthumous collection in 1962.
HELEN IVORY was born in Luton in 1969. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 1999, and was given an Arts Council Writer's Award in 2005. Her second Bloodaxe collection The Dog in the Sky was published in 2006. She is Academic Director and tutor of Creative Writing at Continuing Education at the UEA. She also teaches on the BA Creative Writing and MA Writing the Visual at Norwich Art School. She is an Editor for the Poetry Archive and a judge for the PBS pamphlet choice. Her third collection The Breakfast Machine is due from Bloodaxe next year.