Moniza Alvi’s most recent book of poems, Europa (Bloodaxe, 2008), contains further versions of Supervielle.

Tiffany Atkinson’s Kink and Particle (Seren, 2006) won the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. She teaches at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Alison Brackenbury’s Singing in the Dark (Carcanet, 2008) was reviewed in WR December 2008.

Christopher Burns has published five novels, most recently Dust Raising.

Elizabeth Burns’ most recent collection of poems is The Lantern Bearers (Shoestring, 2007). Her pamphlet The Shortest Days (Galdragon, 2008) won the inaugural Michael Marks Award for a poetry pamphlet.

Thomas Day is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire. He reviews modern poetry for the TLS and other journals, and is currently writing a critical monograph on Geoffrey Hill.

Helen Dennis’s Native American Literature appeared from Routledge in 2006.

Kirsty Gunn’s books include the novels Rain (1994), The Keepsake (1997), Featherstone (2002) and The Boy and the Sea (2006), collections of short stories, and 44 Things (2007), a book of personal reflections.

David Harsent’s Selected Poems was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. His continuing collaboration with Harrison Birtwistle has resulted in two recent operas: The Minotaur (ROH) and The Corridor (Aldeburgh Festival).

Emily Hasler has just taken the runner-up prize in this year’s Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition.

Sue Leigh has been published in The Oxford Poets: 2007 Anthology (Carcanet) and is currently working on her first collection of poetry. She is studying for a PhD at the University of Aberystwyth.

Grevel Lindop’s most recent collection of poems is Playing with Fire (Carcanet, 2006).

Jennifer Martin has an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University.

Anita Mason’s most recent novel, The Right Hand of the Sun, was published by John Murray last year.

Jamie McKendrick’s most recent book of poems is Crocodiles & Obelisks (Faber, 2007). The Embrace, his translation of Valerio Magrelli’s poems, is due in November.

Allison McVety’s The Night Trotsky Came to Stay (Smith/Doorstop) was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize 2008. A portfolio of her poems was shortlisted for the inaugural MMU Poetry Prize 2008. She has an MA in poetry from RHUL and her second collection will be published in May 2010.

Chris Miller, translator and editor, studied Classics at Oxford. He is a widely published literary critic, a co-founder and member of the board of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures, and a member of the editorial board of European Photography.

Vincent O’Sullivan is one of New Zealand’s most distinguished writers. A prolific poet, dramatist and fiction writer, he is also the editor of the Clarendon Press edition of Katherine Mansfield’s correspondence and author of a recent biography of John Mulgan.

Michael Parker is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire. His most recent publications are Northern Irish Literature 1956–2006: The Imprint of History (Palgrave, 2007) and Irish Literature Since 1990: Diverse Voices (Manchester University Press, 2009), which he co-edited with Scott Brewster.

Peter Porter’s most recent collection of poems, Better than God (Picador, 2009), is currently on the Forward Prize shortlist.

Michele Roberts has published several novels and three collections of poetry, including All the Selves I Was. Selected Poems (Virago, 1995). Her work has been translated into twelve languages.

Nicholas Royle is the author of five novels, most recently Antwerp (Serpent’s Tail), and one short story collection, Mortality (Serpent’s Tail). He teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, reviews fiction for the Independent and Time Out, and writes a regular film column for the London Magazine.

Lawrence Sail’s most recent collection of poems is Eye-Baby (Bloodaxe, 2006). Forthcoming in 2010 are Waking Dreams: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe) and Songs of the Darkness: Poems for Christmas, with illustrations by his daughter, Erica Sail (Enitharmon).

Linda Saunders’ first full-length collection, Ways of Returning, was short-listed for the Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize. Her second book, The Watchers, appears shortly from Arrowhead.

Janet Sutherland’s second collection of poems, Hangman’s Acre, is out next month from Shearsman.

Jane Thorp, born in Africa and raised in the US, Canada and England, has had poems in magazines.

Siriol Troup’s second collection of poems, Beneath the Rime, is reviewed on p. 31.

Jackie Wills’ most recent collection is Commandments (Arc, 2007). She is Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Surrey University in 2009/10 and teaches for the Open University and the University of Chichester.

Jan Zwicky has published seven collections of poetry, including Songs for Relinquishing the Earth, Robinson’s Crossing, and most recently Thirty-Seven Small Songs and Thirteen Silences. Her books of philosophy include Wisdom & Metaphor and Lyric Philosophy, which will be reissued by Gaspereau Press in 2010. A native of Alberta, she now lives on the West Coast of Canada.