ALESSANDRO VAGLIO was born in Milan in 1979. In 1998, after completing his studies in Italy, he moved to London. A passionate poet, writer and guitarist since his early youth, he has been publishing his works through the Italian Publisher Officine Editoriali since 2015. This poem is his first publication in English. [PSR 41]
MARK VALENTINE is a veteran of the 1970s poetry scene. He was a columnist for British Underground Magscene, had booklets published by Excello & Bollard and X Press, and contributed to Smoke, Krax, Ludd s Mill, The Fool, and Amoeba. Recent work has appeared in Agenda, Marble, PN Review, and Reliquiae. [PSR 36]
RUTH VALENTINE's latest collection is On the Saltmarsh (Smokestack, 2012). She lives in Tottenham, North London. [PSR 24]
BOB VANCE lives on the northeast shore of Lake Michigan where he works as a Family Counselor for Hospice of Little Traverse Bay. He has been published in a wide variety of magazines throughout the USA, Canada, and the UK, including Orbis, Yankee and Dalhousie Review. His poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Award. He writes plays, has recently acted in an outdoor production of As You Like It in which he played both Jacques and Charles the Wrestler. [PSR 2] [PSR 5]
DOUG VAN GUNDY's poems and essays have appeared in many journals, including The Oxford American, Ecotone, Poems & Plays, and The Louisville Review. His first book of poems, A Life above Water was published by Red Hen Press in 2007. Doug teaches in the low-residency MFA program at West Virginia Wesleyan College where he also directs the undergraduate Honors program. [PSR 23] [PSR 27]
MIRIAM VAN HEE, born in 1952, is a Flemish poet. Her first collection, Het karige maal ("The scanty meal"), for which she was given the Province of East Flanders' Prize, won her instant recognition. Since then she has published many collections. The poems translated here are from Het verband tussen de dagen ("The links between the days" - selected poems, Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 1998). She is also a teacher and translator (Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Brodsky). [PSR 5]
MARJOLIJN VAN HEEMSTRA, born in 1981, is a well-known Dutch writer and journalist. She read Religious Studies at the Free University of Amsterdam. The poems translated here are from her first collection of poems, Als Mozes Had Doorgevraagd ("If Mozes had asked more questions"; Bezige Bij, 2010), which gained her instant acclaim and was awarded the Jo Peters PoëziePrijs. She has also written plays and a novel. [PSR 24]
ROBERT VAS DIAS, an Anglo-American born and now resident in London, has published ten collections in the UK and USA, the latest of which are Still Life and Other Poems of Art and Artifice (Shearsman, 2010) and London Cityscape Sijo and Other Poems (Perdika, 2012). His poems and criticism have appeared in Ambit, Ninth Decade, Oasis, Poetry Review, Shearsman, Stand, Staple, Tears in the Fence, and The Warwick Review in the UK, and in The Nation, The New Yorker, Partisan Review, and Poetry (Chicago) in the USA. He is a core tutor with The Poetry School in London. [PSR 23]
PAUL VAUGHAN lives in Yorkshire. His poems have appeared in Agenda, Frogmore Papers, Obsessed with Pipework, and Prole. He founded the poetry e-zine Algebra of Owls, which he still edits jointly with Hannah Stone and Nick Allen. [PSR 31]
TOM VAUGHAN is the pen name of a retired British diplomat who served in the Middle East, Africa, and the US. His previous publications include a novel, No Second Prize (Andre Deutsch, 1993), about his experience in post-colonial Zimbabwe, and three collections of poetry: A Sampler (2010), Envoy (2013; both HappenStance), and Just a Minute (Cyberwit, 2024). His poems have been published in Acumen, Dream Catcher, Orbis, Staple, Snakeskin, Haiku Quarterly, as well as in the 2003 Harper Collins/BBC anthology Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With) and the 2018 anthology Uncommon. He is a member of the Original Poets of Clapham Stanza Poetry Group, and four of his poems were included in their 2018 anthology Uncommon. He currently lives in France. [PSR 27] [PSR 34] [PSR 37] [PSR 40] [PSR 43]
NICK VAZQUEZ resides in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, where he studied Creative Writing at Columbia College Chicago. His poetry has appeared in Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose. [PSR 42]
JOEL H. VEGA, born in Manila, Philippines, works as editor for the Reed Business Information group in the Netherlands. His poems and short stories have appeared in various Philippine and US publications. [PSR 8]
KATHERINE VENN lives in south London where she works in publishing. She has an MA in creative writing from UEA; her poetry has been published in Magma, Popshot, Third Way, Dappled Things, Theology and on London Grip and Caught by the River, where she also reviews books. [PSR 40]
PHILIP VENZKE grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. His chapbook Chant to Save the World (SurVision Books, 2022) was a winner of The James Tate International 2021 Poetry Prize. His second chapbook of poetry, Rules to Change the World, is being published by Finishing Line Press in 2023. [PSR 40]
PHIL VERNON returned to the UK in 2004 after spending two decades in different parts of Africa. Originally trained as a forester, he worked for many years in the international humanitarian and peacebuilding field and has recently retired. His version of the mediaeval hymn Stabat Mater with music by Nicola Burnett Smith has been performed internationally. His most recent publications are Foreshadowing, a micro-pamphlet based on the life of Martin Luther (Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2024), and his third full collection Guerrilla Country (Flight of the Dragonfly Press, 2024), which brings together his interest in landscape, peace and conflict. His poems have appeared in Acumen, Anima, Crann g, Elbow Room, Gold Dust, Ink Sweat & Tears, Other Poetry, Out of Place, Pennine Platform, Poetry Salzburg Review, and The Poetry Shed. [PSR 32] [PSR 34] [PSR 43]
MARTHA M. VERTREACE-DOODY is Distinguished Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at Kennedy-King College, Chicago, IL. She received her MFA at Vermont College. Most recent books: Glacier Fire (Word Press, 2004), Dragon Lady (Riverstone Press, 1999), Smokeless Flame (Frith Press, 1998), and Second Mourning (Diehard Press, 1998). [PSR 15]
JUSTIN VICARI was born in New York City. He is a poet, fiction writer, film critic and translator. His work has appeared in Phoebe, 32 Poems, American Poetry Review, Rhino, Interim, Slant, Eclipse, Megaera, The Modern Review, Film Quarterly, Postmodern Culture and other journals. Vicari is currently seeking a publisher for his book, Dancing with Fassbinder. He lives in Pennsylvania. [PSR 12]
JOHN VICKERS is a mathematician, poet, novelist, philosopher. He has a PhD in Mathematical Logic from Bristol University and an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University. He has published scientific papers in two distinct fields and conducted Post-Doctoral Research in Mathematical Logic and Neuroscience, especially various modes of brain imaging. His poems have been published in Envoi, The Journal, The Lighthouse, Orbis, Smiths Knoll, and Under the Radar. [PSR 34]
JONATHAN VIDGOP is a theatre director, author, screenwriter, and founder of the Am haZikaron Institute for Science, Culture and Heritage of the Jewish People in Tel-Aviv, Israel. Born in Leningrad in 1955, he was expelled in 1974 from what is now called the Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts "for behavior unworthy of the title of Soviet student". Having worked as a locksmith, loader, and White Sea sailor, he was drafted into the army and sent to serve in the Arctic Circle. He is the author of several books. Two chapters from his latest novel, Testimony, published by the Russian Publishing House NLO, "Birdfall" and "Man of Letters", were published in English in Goats Milk Magazine and The CHILLFILTR Review. A story was recently accepted by Los Angeles Review, and another by Pembroke Magazine. The story "Nomads" is the recent winner of the Meridian's Editors' Prize in Prose. His short story "War" was published in Kitaab (Singapore) and Kaidankai (Japan). [PSR 42]
GANGA PRASAD VIMAL was born in 1939 in a small Himalayan town of India. His work has been translated and published in a large number of languages. Presently he is professor at the Centre of Indian Languages at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. [PSR 10]
PAUL VINCENT studied at Cambridge and Amsterdam, and after teaching Dutch at the University of London for over twenty years became a full-time translator in 1989. Since then he has published a wide variety of translated poetry, non-fiction and fiction, including work by Achterberg, Claus, Couperus, Elsschot, Jellema, Mulisch, De Moor and Van den Brink, and, most recently, Nolens's An English Anthology (Carcanet, 2018). He is a member of the Society of Dutch Literature in Leiden. [PSR 34]
MARC VINCENZ is a poet, fiction writer, translator, editor, musician, and artist. He has published over 30 books of poetry, fiction and translation. His work has been published in The Nation, Ploughshares, Raritan, Colorado Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He is publisher and editor of MadHat Press and publisher of New American Writing. His newest books are There Might Be a Moon or a Dog (Gazebo, 2022) and The Pearl Diver of Irunmani (White Pine Press, forthcoming 2023). [PSR 18] [PSR 39]
ANTHONY VIVIS worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company for four and the BBC for six years. He has been a freelance writer/translator since 1983. Stage translations include works by Büchner, Reinshagen, Sperr, Chatten, Gerhart Hauptmann, Fassbinder, Kroetz, Fühmann, Karge, Botho Strauss, and Jelinek at theatres such as the Traverse, Bush and Royal Court, main house. Adaptations include Goethe's Faust and Schiller's Wallenstein. As well as work published by Methuen, Bloomsbury, Cambridge and Oxford University Presses, he has completed two collections of poems by Sarah Kirsch (co-trans. W Mulford). His translations with Will Stone of Gerhard Fritsch, Egon Schiele and August Stramm have appeared in Modern Poetry in Translation, Pretext and Brindin Press, and are due to be published by Ambros Press. [PSR 2] [PSR 4] [PSR 5]
The German poet VOLKER VON TÖRNE was born in Quedlinburg in 1934. His father was an SS-Officer. From 1962 until his early death in 1980, he worked for the 'Aktion Sühnezeichen', which was an organisation dedicated to helping victims of fascist persecution. His feelings of guilt about his father's Nazi connections were so strong that he literally worked himself to death in an attempt to atone for the crimes in which he felt implicated. [PSR 2]