NATHANIEL TARN, born Paris 1928, educated Cambridge, Sorbonne, Yale, Chicago, L.S.E. & S.O.A.S (London) is a poet, translator (Neruda, Segalen, etc.), critic, editor (Founding Editor Cape Editions & Cape Goliard, London, the Sixties), anthropologist (Highland Maya, S.E. Asia, etc.), and Professor Emeritus with some 35 books and lesser publications in his various disciplines. Recent are: Selected Poems 1950-2000 (Wesleyan UP, 2002), The Embattled Lyric: Essays & Conversations in Poetics & Anthropology (Stanford UP, 2007), and Ins & Outs of the Forest Rivers (New Directions, 2008).
RICK TAYLOR keeps his head down in Canada. His work has appeared in many magazines, among them The Journal, Canadian Literature, The Dalhousie Review and The Malahat Review. The Proximity of Thieves, a chapbook, will be released this year.
TOON TELLEGEN, born in 1941, is one of Holland’s best known poets, and he has won many awards. In 2007 he received three prestigious prizes, two of which were for his entire œuvre. He is also a prolific children’s book writer and novelist, and his poetic animal stories are extremely popular among both children and adults. The poems published in PSR 14 are from a collection of poems entitled A Man and an Angel, a series of poems that focus on the struggle between a man and an angel.
SUSAN TEPPER is a poet, fiction writer and essayist, with work appearing in American Letters & Commentary, Salt Hill, Green Mountains Review, Boston Review, New Millennium Writings and many other publications. In 2006, Cervena Barva Press published her poetry collection Blue Edge.
MARK TERRILL shipped out of San Francisco as a merchant seaman, studied and spent time with Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco and has lived in Germany since 1984, where he has worked as a shipyard welder, road manager for rock bands, cook, and translator. His books include Bread & Fish (The Figures, 2002), Kid with Gray Eyes (Cedar Hill Books, 2001), and a collection of translations, Like a Pilot: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, Selected Poems 1963-1970 (Sulphur River Literary Review Press, 2001).
MICHAEL W. THOMAS is a poet, fiction-writer, dramatist, and musician. His work has appeared, among others, in The Antioch Review, The Black Mountain Review, Grain, Irish University Review, Magazine Six, Other Poetry, and Stand. He reviews for Other Poetry and Poetry Nottingham. His collection God's Machynlleth and Other Poems was published by Flarestack in 1996 and Port Winston Mulberry is forthcoming in 2010 from Littlejohn and Bray.
MICHAEL THORP is an artist and writer, who in 1987 founded the journal and small press CLOUD. He was born in Malvern in 1961 and now lives in Berwick upon Tweed. He has recently published two selections of prose poems written over a period of 12 years: Prayer Poems and Ghost Thoughts: or Reasons for Silence, both published by Desert Garden Samizdat, Berwick upon Tweed in 2007.
SCOTT THURSTON lectures at the University of Salford and has published widely on innovative poetry. He is editor of The Radiator, a journal of poetics, and edited The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk (Salt, 2007). His most recent book is Momentum (Shearsman, 2008).
N. ANNE HIGHLANDS TILEY, born 1952 in the USA, is a poet whose work has or will be published in Art Times, Abiko, Orbis and elsewhere.
LEON TITCHE, Professor Emeritus of Literature at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, has published three books of poetry: Reflections from a Desert Pond (Century Press, 1998), Abishag's Lament (2000), and A Pavilion for the Sun (2001, both Edwin Mellen Press).
HSIEN MIN TOH read English at Keble College, Oxford, where he was also President of the Oxford University Poetry Society. He has published two collections of poetry, Iambus (UNIPress, 1994) and The Enclosure of Love (Landmark, 2001). He is the editor of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. His work has been published in periodicals such as Acumen, Atlanta Review, London Magazine, London Review of Books, Oxford Poetry, 91st Meridian and Poetry Ireland Review.
JEANIE TOMANEK was born in 1949 in New York. She began painting full time in 2001 and now lives in Marietta, Georgia. Her work is in private and public collections throughout the United States and has been used to illustrate many magazines and books. She is also a published poet. The collage elements in the work "My Sister's Keeper" were created by her sister, folk artist, Mary Ann Robinson.
DAVID TOMS has had work published previously in Trespass, Default, Möbius, and Working Papers in Irish Studies. He has work forthcoming in past simple. He is in the final year of his BA at University College, Cork.
RAYMOND TONG worked for many years for The British Council in South America, India and the Middle East. He has published a number of educational books and a travel book about Nigeria. He has also produced nine collections of poems, the most recent being Crossing the Border (Hodder & Stoughton), Selected Poems (Robert Hale), and Returning Home (University of Salzburg).
RICHARD TOOVEY is an architect and translator living in Berlin, where he runs a writing group and assists with the city's 'Poetry Hearings' festival. His poetry has been published in Agenda, Fire, The Frogmore Papers, Iota, Orbis, Smiths Knoll, Staple, and Terrible Work, among others.
ALYSON TORNS graduated from Luton University with a BA in Creative Writing. She has had poems published in Poetry London, The Interpreter's House, Fire, The Wolf, Neon Highway and Tears in the Fence. Her most recent publication is From the Lost Property Office: A Quartet for Pessoa (Hearing Eye, 2006). She works as a tennis coach in Hertfordshire.
GEORGE TOULOUPAS is currently a shoemaker in Piraeus, Greece. He owes much to David Miller's and Robert Lax's guidance and friendship. Together with David Miller he helps run Kater Murr's Press.
GEORG TRAKL (1887-1914), Austrian Expressionist poet. Ludwig von Ficker, editor of Der Brenner, regularly published his poems. Finally achieved success with the decision of Kafka's publisher Kurt Wolff to publish a collection of his poetry in 1913. Drafted into the Austrian army with the arrival of war in August 1914 as a Lieutenant with the Austrian Medical Corps. Assigned to a hospital in Poland in November 1914 in the wake of the Battle of Grodek, Trakl found himself required to care single-handedly for some 90 men, a task which broke him emotionally. He committed suicide via a cocaine overdose on 3/4 November 1914. Dark Seasons (Broken Jaw Press 1994; transl. Robin Skelton), Poems and Prose (Libris, 2001; transl. Alexander Stillmark), A Profile (Carcanet, 1984, transl. Michael Hamburger).
DAVIDE TRAME is an Italian author who lives in Venice and teaches English outside the city. His poems have appeared in South, Orbis, Books Ireland, and Flaming Arrow.
KIM TRIEDMAN is a graduate of Brown University. She has been published in The Aurorean, The New Writer, ByLine Magazine, The Journal, Poetry Monthly, Current Accounts, IF Poetry Journal, and Trespass Magazine.
JULIET TROY is studying Creative Writing at the University of Bedfordshire. She lives in St. Albans.
STEPHEN TROYANOVICH is a correctional educator, freelance journalist, and editor. His poetry has appeared in many diverse publications including Arabesques Review, Treaders of Starlight, Broken Streets, Blue Unicorn, and The Wormwood Review. He is the author of Dream Dealers and Other Shadows (Triton Press, 1978).
AMY TRUSSELL's poetry has been published extensively in journals such as The Prague Revue, The New Orleans Review, and The 33 Review. Online her work has been published in The Electric Acorn, Big Bridge, Nth Position, Literary Salt, and others. She has performed her dance-poetry in many venues in the USA, including Zeitgeist Theater and Loyola University. Currently she is working on an extended piece of collaborative poetry with A. di Michele, Ungulations. She is also the author, with Donna Kuhn, of Unexplained Cloth of Dance, a chapbook of poetry and collage (Blue Sushi Press, 2003).
MARINA TSVETAEVA (1892-1941) is one of the greatest poets of Russia's Silver Age of Poetry. She became an émigré in 1922 but, due to family pressure, returned to Russia at the onset of the war with Hitler. Suffering extreme depression and financial hardship she committed suicide in Elabuga on 31 August 1941.
KEITH TUMA is the author of Fishing by Obstinate Isles: Modern and Contemporary British Poetry and American Readers (Northwestern UP, 1998) and the editor of Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (Oxford UP, 2001). His essays on British, Irish, American, and Anglophone poetry have appeared in journals including Chicago Review, Contemporary Literature, Criticism, Modernism/Modernity, The Journal, and American Book Review. His poems and performance texts have appeared in journals including Chicago Review, Notre Dame Review, Open Letter, The Gig, nth position, Flights, and Famous Reporter.
GAEL TURNBULL's most recent collections are Transmutations (Shoestring Press, 1997) and Might a Shape of Words (Mariscat Press, 2000). He was born in Edinburgh - in 1928 - where he now lives after many years in England, Canada and the United States.
SIMON TURNER's work has previously appeared in various publications including Tears in the Fence, The Wolf, nthposition, Dusie, and The London Magazine. His first collection, You Are Here, was published by Heaventree in 2007. His second is forthcoming from Nine Arches Press in early 2010.
PETER TURRINI (born 1944) is an Austrian playwright. Born in Carinthia, Turrini has been writing since 1971, when his play Rozznjogd premiered at the Volkstheater, Vienna. He is known for his social critical and provocative homeland plays. A versatile author, he has written plays, screenplays, poems, and essays. His works have been translated into many languages and his plays have been performed worldwide. He lives in Vienna and Retz, Lower Austria. Works: Rozznjogd (1971), Sauschlachten (1972), the TV series Alpensaga (1974-79), Minderleister (1988), Bei Einbruch der Dunkelheit (2005). Available in English translation: Shooting Rats, Other Plays and Poems (Ariadne, 1996).
FRANCIS TURTON was born in Yorkshire in 1969 and currently lives in Cambridge, where he works as a technical writer for a telecommunications software company. His poems have appeared in numerous British magazines including The Frogmore Papers, The Rialto and Other Poetry.
DONALD L. TUTHILL is a Stanford graduate and taught both English and Humanities at Valencia Community College in Orlando, Florida, for thirteen years, was designated a Senior Teaching Fellow, and is now retired. He is also a former Army Staff Sergeant and retired Navy Commander. He has recently brought out his first volume of poetry, Waiting for Spring (Watermark, 2003).
JULIAN TUWIM (1894-1953) was one of the great poets of inter-war and post-war Poland. Born in Lódz into an assimilated Polish-Jewish family, he spent the war years in South America and the USA. After the war he returned to communist Poland. He was the author of lyric, erotic and satirical verse, Socrates tanczacy (1919, "Dancing Socrates"), Biblia cyganska (1933, "The Gypsy Bible"), Bal w operze (1946, "The Opera Ball"), and Kwiaty polskie (1949, "Polish Flowers").
PAVLO TYCHYNA (1891-1967) was a major Ukrainian poet. His initial work had strong connections to the symbolist literary movement, but his style transformed a number of times during his long career and frequently aped the acceptable socialist realism. He survived the terror of the Soviet regime by writing collections of hideous Stalinist doggerel. In later years as the political climate relaxed he was able to rediscover his talent and produce work which was both supreme poetry and acceptable to the regime. His collections include Sonyachni klarnety [Solar Clarinets] (1918), Pluh [The Plough] (1920), Zamist sonetiv i octav [Instead of Sonnets and Octaves] (1920), and Viter z Ukrainy [The Wind from Ukraine] (1924).
DEBORAH TYLER-BENNETT lives in Loughborough. She edits the journal The Coffee House. She has had work published in Acumen, Angel Exhaust, Orbis, Poetry Scotland, Other Poetry, Tenth Muse, among others. She regularly performs her work and has taken part in Leicestershire County Council's Write Words and Then and Now schemes for schools and teachers. Her first collection of poetry, Clark Gable in Mansfield, was published by the King's England Press in Spring 2003.