Contributors to Poetry Salzburg Review M

MARGARET MACAULAY. Born in Campbeltown, Argyll in 1934. Honours graduate in History from the University of Glasgow. One of the first women to be employed in the Reporters Room of the Glasgow Herald. Marriage and children ended a full-time career in journalism (this was the early 1960s) but she continued to free-lance for the paper as television reviewer and feature writer. She took a post-graduate course in primary teaching, working as a teacher and later for James Thin Booksellers of Edinburgh, specialising in antiquarian and out-of-print books. Now "retired" she writes articles for The Scottish Book Collector, on literary and historical subjects. She is currently working on a novel on a forgotten episode of Scottish history.

EDWARD MACKINNON has had a collection entitled Wising Up, Dressing Down published by Shoestring Press in 2002. He studied Modern Languages in Cambridge and lives in the Netherlands, where he works as a translator.

ANNE MacLEOD's poetry is known from Cape Breton to Salzburg. She lives on the Black Isle in the North of Scotland and works as a dermatologist. Her first poetry collection Standing by Thistles (Scottish Cultural Press, 1997) was shortlisted for a Saltire Award. Just the Caravaggio appeared from Poetry Salzburg in 1999, and The Dark Ship, her first novel was published in 2001 by 11:9, the fiction imprint of Neil Wilson Publishing.

MASSIMO MAGGIARI was born in Genova in 1960 and lives presently in Charleston, South Carolina. He teaches Italian language and literature at the local College, where he organizes intercultural exchanges between Italian and American poets. He specialized in twentieth-century Italian poetry and has published several articles, essays and reviews in European and American journals.

TAMAKI MAKOTO, born in 1947, is a Japanese haiku poet and translator, with James Kirkup, of a collection of Japan's foremost tanka poet, Fumi Saito, who died in 2002 aged 90: In Thickets of Memory (Miwa Shoten, 2003). His first collection of haiku, Snakes in the Grass, was published by Hub Editions in 1995. Together with Kirkup, he recently completed a large selection from Mutsuo's major works.

DAVID MALCOLM was born in Aberdeen and studied English and German at the Universities of Aberdeen, Zürich and London. He is at present Professor of English Literature at the University of Gdansk in Poland. He is co-author (with Cheryl Alexander Malcolm) of Jean Rhys: A Study of the Short Fiction (Twayne, 1996), and author of That Impossible Thing: The British Novel, 1978-1992 (U of Gdansk P, 2000), Understanding Ian McEwan (2002), Understanding Graham Swift (2003), and Understanding John McGahern (2007, all U of South Carolina P). Together with Georgia Scott, he edited and translated Dreams of Fires: 100 Polish Poems 1970-1989 (Poetry Salzburg, 2004).

JULES MANN has had work published in UK, US and Czech Republic poetry magazines. She is editor of Chi Chi Press and web designer for writersartists.net. Her most recent pamphlet, Pluck, was published by Slow Dancer Press (London, 1999).

AOIFE MANNIX was born in Stockholm of Irish parents. She grew up in Dublin and New York, and currently lives in London. Her first chapbook is entitled The Trick of Foreign Words (Tall Lighthouse, 2002). She is currently writing her first novel for Xpress. In 2002 she wrote and performed in the Apples and Snakes "Writers on The Storm" tour. Her poetry has been published in numerous magazines including Agenda, Iota, Orbis, and Global Tapestry. It has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, London Live, and the BBC World Service. She won first prize in the 1998 Dr Marten's New Writers Competition and the Arts Angels Poetry Competition 2002.

BRIAN MARLEY was born in 1953. His books include Dense Lens (with Asa Benveniste; Trigram Press, 1975) and Springtime in the Rockies (Trigram Press, 1978). He also co-edited - with Mark Wastell - Blocks of Consciousness and The Unbroken Continuum (Sound 323, 2006).

KLAUS MARTENS is a widely published poet and literary translator. In addition to three books of poetry and many contributions to anthologies, magazines, and the electronic media, he edited and translated into German, in part or whole, works by John Ashbery, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas and Derek Walcott, among many others. He lives and teaches in Saarbrücken as a professor of North American Literature and Culture and is the director of the Centre for Canadian and Anglo American Cultures (CCAC) at the Universität des Saarlandes, Germany.

NICHOLAS MARTIN is a Canadian citizen now living (and writing) in the south of England. His credentials include the completion of a BA in English Lit./Philosophy (double major) from the University of Calgary.

RICHARD MARTIN taught English and American literature at the University of Aachen, Germany, for many years. He now lives and writes over the border in Holland. He is the author of Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham (UMI Research Press, 1988) and Fragments from Here And There (Janus, 1999). He has also published short fiction and poetry.

SUSAN MAURER now writes from a war zone, in NYC. Her book By the Blue Light of the Morning Glory was published by Linear Arts. She has been three times nominated for the Pushcart Prize by Mind the Gap, Quarternity Press and Broadsides. She is due out in the Unbearables anthology Help Yourself. She has appeared in magazines such as American Voice, Gare du Nord, Virginia Quarterly Review, Crazy Horse and Literary Imagination.

PANSY MAURER-ALVAREZ, American by birth and Swiss by marriage, has lived in Europe since 1973. She did her literary studies at universities in the US, Spain and Switzerland. She is a Contributing Editor for the British magazine Tears in the Fence. Her collections are: Dolores: The Alpine Years (1996) and When the Body Says It's Leaving (2004, both Hanging Loose Press); and a collaboration with the Swiss artist Walter Ehrismann, Lovers Eternally Nearing (Editions Thomas Howeg, 1997), with German translations by Rudolf Bähler.

GUI MAYO was raised in Berkeley, and Big Sur, California, worked as a photographer in San Francisco and New York during the 1960s, and since then has lived in Berkeley. Sketches of hers appeared in Gate 7 and in Caesura.

PAUL MAZERY. Of Irish nationality, but born in Durban, South Africa. Has lived for some time in Portugal, where he lectures in English at the Science and Technology Faculty of Lisbon's Universidade Nova. He has been writing poetry for many years. His most recent collection is Spaces Explored (University of Salzburg Press, 1997).

CHRIS McCABE was born in Liverpool in 1977. His first collection, The Hutton Inquiry, was published by Salt in 2005. He has read his work at the Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry 2004 and in the Crossing the Line series at the Poetry Café. He currently works as Assistant Librarian at the Poetry Library, London.

JANET McCANN. A 1989 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship winner, she has taught at Texas A & M University since 1969. Has co-edited two anthologies, Odd Angles of Heaven (1994) and Place of Passage (2000). She has also co-authored a textbook (Creative and Critical Thinking, 2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1985) and written a book on Wallace Stevens (The Celestial Possible, Macmillan/Twayne, 1995). Most recent poetry collection: Looking for Buddha in the Barbed Wire Garden (Avisson, 1996).

NEIL McCARTHY lives in Galway, Ireland. His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines, journals and anthologies including The New York Quarterly, Dream Catcher, Iota, and The Dalhousie Review.

DERRICK McCLURE. Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and a well-known and internationally respected authority on Scottish literature and language. He is a prolific translator from Gaelic and is currently engaged in preparing a translation of Mistral's Mireille from Provençal into Scots.

JAMES McCONALOGUE was born in Essex in 1979. For the past six years, he has been working in the editorial departments of various publishing companies in London and Essex, in addition to studying Intellectual Thought at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the University of York. The chapbook Terra Incognita was published in 2003. Poetry Salzburg published his first collection, Starry Dandelion Night, in 2007.

MONICA McFAWN lives in Michigan. She has published in Exquisite Corpse, Typo, and Bookslut. She is interested in the connections between visual art, theory, and literature.

BRIAN McGETTRICK lives in the north of Ireland. His work has previously appeared in The Lummox Journal, Lunatic Chameleon, Remark, My Favorite Bullet, Thunder Sandwich, Mystery Island Magazine, Free Verse, and The Stinging Fly.

KARYNA McGLYNN lives in Seattle. Her work has appeared in Agnieszka's Dowry, Wild Violet Magazine, Branches Quarterly, Morpo Review and Unmade Magazine. She is a four-time member of the National Poetry Slam Team and the editor of Screaming Emerson Press. She attends the creative writing program at Seattle University and teaches performance poetry at the University of Washington Experimental College. Her newest collection is entitled The July Poems.

NIALL McGRATH is from Antrim, and has had the following publications: poetry - First Sight (Lapwing Press, 1997), Deja vu (Poetry Monthly Press, 1999), Godsong & A Matter of Honour (Black Mountain Press, 2000), First World (Poetry Monthly Press, 2002) and Reversion (Sixties Press, 2003); novel - Heart of a Heartless World (Minerva Press, 1995). He is currently editor of The Black Mountain Review (www.blackmountainreview.com).

SHELLEY McINTOSH is a writer and animator from Victoria, Canada. Her award-winning film Labyrinth was finished in 1978 and Dream Geometry in 1996. She spent the 1980s in London, involved in the vital animation industry there. In the 1990s, back to Vancouver to teach animation, work as technical director at the National Film Board of Canada, and to focus on her writing. She was involved in workshops and readings at the Kootenay School of Writing. Her most recent publications are A Slight Narrative (Kater Murr’s Press, 2005) and August (Route, 1996).

RICHARD McKANE started writing poetry and translating it in 1967, while studying Russian at Oxford University. In the 1970s he lived for six years in Turkey. A former Hodder Fellow at Princeton University (1978-1979), he has made his home in London since 1980 where he works as an interpreter. His first book was Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Penguin / OUP, 1969; expanded edition, Bloodaxe, 1989). Further publications include The Moscow Notebooks and Voronezh Notebooks (with Elizabeth McKane, Bloodaxe, 2003), The Pillar of Fire: Selected Poems of Nikolay Gumilyov (Anvil, 1999), Death of a Butterfly: Poems of Leonid Aronzon (Gnosis, 1998), and he Wild Rose by Olga Sedakova (Approach Books, 1997). He edited and was main translator of the anthology Ten Russian Poets: Surviving the Twentieth Century (Anvil, 2003) in which his translations of Poplavsky and Belinda Cooke's are included. His translations from Turkish (co-translated with Ruth Christie) include Selected Poems of Oktay Rifat (Rockingham, 1993) and Beyond the Walls: Selected Poems of Nazim Hikmet (Anvil, 2002). His own poetry has been published - with translations into Turkish by Turkish poets - by Yapi Kredi, Istanbul: The Turkey Poems (1995) and Coffeehouse Poems (2003). A Selected Poems Amphora for Metaphors (1993) was published by Gnosis (New York), a selection of his poems on poetry along with best-loved translations was published by Hearing Eye: Poet for Poet (1998, 2001).

DONAL McLAUGHLIN lectured in German from 1991-2002. Academic publications on post-war German literature and on German-speaking exiles to the UK. His translation work includes a stage version of Bernhard Schlink's novel, Der Vorleser ('The Reader') (with Chris Dolan); and Shards, a bilingual edition of the poetry of Stella Rotenberg (with Stephen Richardson) which received a Prämie from the Bundeskanzleramt in Vienna. He has completed his first novel (Lanzarote) and is working on a second (set in Latvia).

GORDON MEADE. Born in Perth, Scotland in 1957. Third collection: A Man at Sea (diehard Press, 2003). Widely published in many magazines and anthologies. In 1993/5 was Creative Writing Fellow at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art / Writer in Residence for Dundee District Libraries. Has been awarded a Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary on four occasions. Is at present developing a series of poetry workshops for primary school children. Lives and works in the East Neuk of Fife.

RICHARD MEIER's first book of poetry, Terrain Vague, was selected by Tomaz Salamun as winner of the 2000 Verse Prize. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Conduit, Fence, American Letters and Commentary, Paris Review, and other journals. He has worked as a poet-in-the-schools with Teachers & Writers Collaborative in New York City and in Pittsburgh, PA with Gateway to the Arts. He has taught creative writing at the Universities of Alabama and Pittsburgh and is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Beloit College.

VALERIA MELCHIORETTO was born in Switzerland to Italian parents. She studied Administration and worked for a number of years as a PA in Switzerland. She moved to the UK to take a BA in Drama with Fine Art at Brunel University and later an MA in Fine Art at East London University where she studies at present towards her Doctorate. She has published poems in Poetry London, Wolf and a number of anthologies.

SAMUEL MENASHE (b. 1925 in New York City) enlisted in 1943, and was sent to the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia. After training in England, his division fought in France, Belgium and Germany. In 1950 he was awarded a Doctorat d'Université by the Sorbonne. His first book was The Many Named Beloved (London: Victor Gollancz, 1961). In 1996, his poems were featured in Penguin Modern Poets 7. He is the inaugural winner of the Poetry Foundation's Neglected Masters Award, a prize that both pays tribute to his excellence and makes reparation for the years in which his achievements were overlooked. His New and Selected Poems, edited by Christopher Ricks, was published in 2005 by the Library of America.

NICHOLAS MESSENGER has been a poet all his life, and a painter on and off. He won the Glover Poetry Award in New Zealand in the 1970s. For much of his life he has made his living as a teacher, of science, art, and languages in High Schools in New Zealand, and for the last nine years, of English in Japan.

MARY MICHAELS' The Shape of the Rock: New and Selected Poems (Sea Cow, 2003) was selected for the Alt-Gen (Alternative Next Generation) list in 2005. Assassins (2006) is her sixth poetry pamphlet from Sea Cow Press. My Life in Films, a collection of prose fiction, was published by The Other Press in 2006. Caret Mark, a new collection of poems, is forthcoming from Hearing Eye. She lives in London.

MICHAEL GREGG MICHAUD lives in Los Angeles, California. His poetry, short stories, and non-fiction have appeared in over 150 magazines and anthologies in most English-speaking countries. His latest book is Bedtime Stories (Fortunate Rhythm Books, 1998).

STEPHEN C. MIDDLETON has had five books of poetry published, most recently Worlds of Pain / Shades of Grace (University of Salzburg, now Poetry Salzburg, 1996) and A Brave Light (Stride, 1999). He was, for several years, editor of Ostinato and The Tenormen Press, the former a magazine publishing jazz-related poetry, prose, interviews, and artwork, the latter publishing large-format art / text editions with a jazz theme.

AGATA MIKSA is a graduate in Classical Philology of the University of Lódz. Her translations of Polish poetry have appeared in lyric poetry review (USA) and in Przekladaniec (Kraków, Poland), and have been performed in readings in the Polish Cultural Centre in London and at various venues in Lódz. She lives Lódz.

DAVID MILLER was born in Melbourne in 1950, and has lived in London since 1972. His publications include The Caryatids (Enitharmon Press, 1975), Losing to Compassion (Origin Press, 1985), W. H. Hudson and the Elusive Paradise (Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 1990), Pictures of Mercy: Selected Poems (Stride, 1991), Stromata (Burning Deck, 1995), Collected Poems (University of Salzburg Press, 1997), Spiritual Letters (1-12) (hawkhaven press, 1999), The Waters of Marah (Singing Horse Press, 2003), and The Dorothy and Benno Stories (Reality Street, 2005). He was an Associate Editor of the literary journal Origin, from 1983-1985, and is an Associate Editor of Poetry Salzburg Review.

BILLY MILLS. Born Dublin 1954. Lived in Barcelona 1986 to 1989, then in Eastbourne, where he taught English to foreign students. Returned to Dublin and worked as a local history researcher on a community employment scheme and part-time teacher. Now living in Limerick. Founder and co-editor (with Catherine Walsh) of hardPressed Poetry and The Journal. Books include Genesis & Home (1985), Triple Helix (both hardPressed Poetry, 1987), Letters from Barcelona (Dedalus Press, 1993), Properties of Stone (Writers Forum, 1996), Five Easy Pieces (Shearsman Books, 1997), A Small Book of Songs (Wild Honey Press, 1998), and What is a Mountain? (hardPressed Poetry, 2000).

W. S. MILNE lives and works in Surrey. He has published two books of poetry in Scots, Twa-Three Lines (Big Little Poem Books, 1987) and Sangs o Luve and Pairtan (Poets and Painters Press, 1997). He has also translated the Agamemnon into Scots (Agenda Editions, 2002). His monograph An Introduction to the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill was published by Bellew Press in 1998. His English poems have appeared in The New Statesman, Stand, Outposts, Acumen, and Agenda.

KATHRYN MOCKLER has an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia. She teaches writing at the Ontario College of Art and Design and the University of Western Ontario. Her writing has appeared most recently in The Antigonish Review, The Danforth Review, Descant, PRISMinternational, Room of One's Own, Stand Magazine, and The Fiddlehead.

PETER MONEY, born in Napa, California, in 1963. In the late 1980s he studied with the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg; he has since published several books, among them These Are My Shoes (Boz, 1991), A Big Yellow (Cloud/Marking, 1996), Instruments (Tel-let, 1997), and Finding It: Selected Poems (Mille Grazie, 2000/2001). He is the only poet on the faculty of The Center For Cartoon Studies (America’s only two year cartoon school), directs the writing and literature program at Lebanon College, edits Across Borders: An International Annual, and is the Editor-in-Chief of Harbor Mountain Press.

ALAN JUDE MOORE, born in Dublin in 1973. His poetry has been widely published in Ireland and abroad. His fiction has been twice short-listed for the Hennessy Literary Award and published in various journals. His first collection of poetry, Black State Cars, was published by Salmon in 2004. A second collection, Lost Republics, will be published in 2008.

ANDREA MOORHEAD was born in Buffalo, New York in 1947. Editor of Osiris and a translator of contemporary Francophone poetry, she publishes in French and in English. Her most recent collections are From a Grove of Aspen (University of Salzburg Press, 1997), le vert est fragile (Écrits des Forges, 1999), and Présence de la terre (Écrits des Forges, 2004). Translations include The Edges of Light by Hélène Dorion (Guernica Editions, 1995) and Updates by Françoise Hàn (Verlag Im Wald, 2000). She is on the faculty of Deerfield Academy, where she also is director of the Deerfield Academy Press and Poet-in-Residence.

BARBARA MORAFF’s recent poetry titles include Footprint (Longhouse / Origin, 2007) and All Set (tel.let, 2007). She lives in Danville, Vermont. Though partially disabled she continues to make stoneware pottery and wholegrain bread which she sells at a local farmers' market.

DANIEL THOMAS MORAN was born in New York City in 1957. He is the author of six collections of poetry, the most recent being Looking for the Uncertain Past (Poetry Salzburg, 2006) and From HiLo to Willow Pond (Street Press, 2002). From 1997-2005 he served as Vice-President of The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association in West Hills, New York. In 2005 he was appointed Poet Laureate by The Legislature of Suffolk County, New York. His collected papers are being archived by Stony Brook University. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Dental Surgery from Howard University in Washington, D.C. He practices dentistry and lives on Shelter Island in New York.

BRUNA MORI was born in Japan and raised in the United States. She presently teaches Creative Writing at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles. Her book of New York cityscape poems, with sumi-ink paintings by Matthew Kinney, is forthcoming from San Francisco-based Meritage Press. Recent work appears in journals such as Fence, ZYZZYVA, and Trepan. Prose poetry contributed to this issue of Poetry Salzburg Review is part of a series based on taking subway trains to the ends of lines.

BRIAN MORNAR received a BA from Beloit College of Wisconsin in 1998, with a major in English and a minor in Ethics. During his senior year at Beloit College he studied in Copenhagen, Denmark. Since past spring, the anthology he edited, Retake the Falling Snow: 155 Years of Student Creative Writing at Beloit College, was published by Beloit College Press. Currently he is a first year M.F.A. candidate at St. Mary's College of California, where he studies poetry and poetics. This is his first publication.

CAROLINE BROOKE MORRELL earned her M.F.A. in poetry from Bowling Green State University and has been the recipient of first place poetry awards from both the "Academy of American Poets" and the "Vonna Hicks Adrian Poetry Prize". She was the first place winner of the Devine Fellowship in Poetry in both 2002 and 2003. Most recently, her poems and reviews have appeared in Artful Dodge, Buffalo Carp, Cold Mountain Review, Connecticut Review, Mid-American Review, Red River Review, and River City.

JANE MORREN, born 1970, is a painter living in Berlin. The prose poems in this issue are from her artist's book entitled From Water, which consists of ink on paper drawings and portraits accompanied by text. She has exhibited her work in Berlin, Augsburg, Karlsruhe, Philadelphia, Ann Arbor, and Madison, and holds an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Trained as a visual artist, SHARON MORRIS has exhibited photography and video installations based on prose poems. Her poems have appeared in the journals Envoi, Other Poetry, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Poetry Wales. She is a senior lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.

ALAN MORRISON has been a featured poet in Poetic Hours and online at Strix Varia. His play for voices, Picaresque, has been performed at venues such as The Poetry Café and the George Bernard Shaw Theatre, RADA. He has published three chapbooks: Giving Light (Waterloo, 2003), Clocking-in for the Witching Hour and Feed a Cold, Strave a Fever (both Sixties Press, 2004). A full volume, The Mansion Gardens, was published by Paula Brown in autumn 2006. A further volume, Saints with Cluttered Brows, is due out with Waterloo Press later this year.

ANTHONY MORTIMER is Professor of English Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He studied at the University of Leeds where, together with James Simmons and Tony Harrison, he edited Poetry and Audience, and went on to teach at universities in Croatia, Italy, Germany and the United States while publishing widely in the fields of renaissance poetry and Anglo-Italian studies. His most recent books are Variable Passions: A Study of Shakespeare's 'Venus and Adonis' (2000) and his own verse translations from Petrarch's Canzoniere in Penguin Classics (2002). The versions of Silesius are his first translations from German.

JOHN MUCKLE has worked as an editor and copywriter, a teacher in further and higher education, a care assistant, and in an antiquarian bookshop. His publications include: The Cresta Run (Galloping Dog Press, 1987), Cyclomotors (Festival Books, 1997) and a number of small children's books. He published a study of Allen Ginsberg's poetry, "The Names", in The Beat Generation Writers (Pluto Press, 1996), was general editor of The New British Poetry (Paladin, 1988) and, with others, he produced a poetry and short fiction magazine, Active in Airtime. He is currently working on a collection of poetry.

PAUL MULDOON was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. He read English at Queen's University, Belfast, where he was taught by Seamus Heaney. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the BBC. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is now Howard G. B. Clark Professor at Princeton University and Chair of the University Center for the Creative and Performing Arts. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford, where he is an honorary Fellow of Hertford College. His main collections of poetry are Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting the British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001), and Moy Sand and Gravel (2002, all Faber & Faber), for which he won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize. His tenth collection, Horse Latitudes, appeared in the fall of 2006. Among his awards are the 1994 T. S. Eliot Prize, the 1997 Irish Times Poetry Prize, the 2003 Griffin Prize, the 2004 American Ireland Fund Literary Award, and the 2004 Shakespeare Prize. In November 2007 he will become Poetry Editor of The New Yorker.

CHRISTOPHER MULROONEY, born 1956 in Athens, Georgia. Poetry, fiction & translations in Poetry and Audience, The 2River View, The Burning Bush, Renditions, Breakfast All Day etc.

MARK MURPHY, born in 1969, studied Philosophy at North Staffordshire Polytechnic. His first collection, Tin Cat Alley, was published in 1996 by SPOUT. He is presently looking for a publisher for his latest manuscript, Our Little Bit of Immortality, based on the paintings of David Hockney.

FRANK MURRI was born in Newcastle, Australia in 1967. His first volume of poetry, The Desire Again, was published by the independent Australian publisher, Mockfrog Design Press, in 2002. He translated this volume into Italian. It was also adapted into a stage play Il Desiderio Ritorna ("The Desire Returns"), and staged by the "Performing Arts Newcastle" Theatre Company, in Australia.

KRISTINE ONG MUSLIM lives in the Philippines. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in several mainstream and literary publications, like Adbusters and The Pedestal Magazine.

TAKAHASHI MUTSUO, born in 1937, is one of Japan's most celebrated contemporary poets and essayists. In his early twenties, he moved to Tokyo, where he worked for the Tokyo Design Center. His most striking collections of poetry (modern style free verse, traditional haiku and tanka) are: Bara no Ki: Nise no Koibitotachi [Rose Tree Imitation Lovers] (1964), Nemuri to Okashi to Rakka [Slumber & Sin & Fall] (1965), and Yogoretara-mono wa sarani Yogoretaru koto o Nase [You Dirty Ones, Do Even Dirtier Things] (1966). A large selection of his work appears in James Kirkup's anthology Burning Giraffes (Poetry Salzburg, 1996). These two poems are taken from the collection the translators have called Myself as an Anatomical Lovemaking Machine.