HARRIET TARLO wrote her PhD on the modernist poet H.D. She now teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Leeds. Her books of poetry include Nab (Etruscan, 2005), Poems 1990-2003 (Shearsman, 2004) and LoveLand (REM Press, 2003). She also writes critical and review essays on modernist and contemporary poets.
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 and most prolific poets, with many literary awards to his name. His poetry, known for its absurd humour, is unlike that of any other Dutch poet and perhaps asks to be seen in a broader European context. His work is sometimes compared to that of Russian absurd writers like Charms. The poems translated here are from two of Tellegen's collections: Over liefde en over niets anders ("About love and about nothing else") and Alleen liefde ("Just love"), published by Querido, Amsterdam, in 1997 and 2002 respectively.
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, postal worker 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 THORP lives with his wife Frances in Berwick-upon-Tweed, where he grows vegetables and flowers, words and images, and has recently completed a book on the "Spiritual Letters" of David Miller. He founded the journal and small press CLOUD in Newcastle in 1987, and has since run an art gallery and cafe-bar in Berwick, called The Haven, and worked on a variety of initiatives involving the relationship of creativity, people and place. He was born in Malvern in 1961.
SCOTT THURSTON's publications include Poems Nov 89 - Jun 91 (1991), Stateswalks (1994) (both Writers Forum), Two Sequences (RWC, 1998) and Turns (with Robert Sheppard) (Radiator/Ship of Fools, 2003). He also appeared in Sleight of Foot (Reality Street, 1996). In 2002 he completed a PhD thesis on British Linguistically Innovative Poetry and Poetics. He currently edits the poetics journal The Radiator and teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Salford. Hold: Poems 1994-2004 was published by Shearsman in February 2006.
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.
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.
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).
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, 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.
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). He is the editor of Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (Oxford UP, 2001) and co-editor (with Maeera Shreiber) of Mina Loy: Woman and Poet (NPF, 1998) and (with David Kennedy) Additional Apparitions: Poetry, Performance, Site-Specificity (Cherry on the Top Press, 2002). His essays on poetry and culture have appeared in many journals and his poems and collaboratively-written performance texts in journals including Chicago Review, Notre Dame Review, Open Letter, The Gig, and Famous Reporter. The book-length Critical Path: Journey into the Bush, a travelogue written with cris cheek and Bill Howe, is hopefully forthcoming soon.
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.
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 (1918, "Solar Clarinets"), Pluh (1920, "The Plough"), Zamist sonetiv i octav (1920, "Instead of Sonnets and Octaves"), and Viter z Ukrainy (1924, "The Wind from Ukraine").
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.