KEVIN CAHILL lives in Cork, Ireland. He divides his time between writing poetry andpractising reiki. His work was published in The SHOp, Southword, Poetry Nottingham, Pennine Platform,Poetry Monthly, Orbis, The London Magazine, Magma, Poetry Ireland Review, and Envoi.[PSR 13][PSR 18]
PIERS CAIN grew up in Ruislip, Middlesex. He read History at University College London and subsequently obtained a postgraduate diploma in Archive Studies. His career has focussed on knowledge and general management in the professional services and international development sectors. He has published in the fields of knowledge and information management, is a review columnist for Dialogue Review, and originator of the CMI Management Book of the Year. He is a Chartered Fellow of the CMI and Fellow of the RSA. [PSR 34]
KEVIN CAHILL is a writer from Ireland. His work has appeared in The London Magazine, Oxford Poetry, Southword, The Stinging Fly, Dreich Magazine, Wild Court, and The Lonely Crowd. [PSR 39]
HELEN CALCUTT is a British poet, dance artist, and journalist. She was brought up inWalsall and educated at the University of Wolverhampton, where she completed a BA in Philosophy & Creative andProfessional Writing. Her work has been published in journals such as The London Magazine, The New Yorker, Poetry Scotland, and Wales Arts Review. Sudden Rainfall (Perdika Press, 2013) is her first collection. [PSR 26]
JOE CALDWELL lives in Sheffield, England, where he works as a teacher. His poems have been published in The Rialto, The North, Under the Radar, and The Best New British and Irish Poets 2018. [PSR 36]
CHAUCER CAMERON is the author of In an Ideal World I'd Not Be Murdered (Grain Poetry Press, 2021). Her poetry has appeared in Under the Radar, The North, The Interpreter's House, and Atticus Review. Her poetry-films have screened internationally at poetry-film festivals and universities, including REELpoetry/ Houston TX. She was feature reader at the Perth Poetry Club Reading Series, Australia 2021. She is producer and curator of Wild Whispers, an international poetry-film collaboration. She is co-editor of Poetry Film Live and runs poetry-film collective workshops online. [PSR 37]
DAVID CAMERON was born in Glasgow in 1966 and now lives near Belfast. His poems are collected in The Bright Tethers: Poems 1988-2016 (Run Press, 2016). In 2014 he received the Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry. [PSR 33]
JEN CAMPBELL grew up in the North-East of England, and now lives in London where she runs anantiquarian bookshop. Her poetry has been published in various places including Poetry Wales, Shearsman,Agenda, and Manchester Review. Her pamphlet The Hungry Ghost Festival was published by The Rialto in 2012. [PSR 24]
NICHOLAS CAMPBELL was born in Greensburg, Indiana, in 1949, and earned a BA inEnglish Literature from California State University, Northridge and an MA in Creative Writing from San FranciscoState University. His work has appeared in Blue Unicorn, Colorado Review, Los Angeles Times Book Review,and Poetry/LA. His book of poems, Dandelion Clocks, was published in 1993 by Garden Street Press. [PSR 23] [PSR 28]
STUART B. CAMPBELL's poetry has been previouslypublished in many magazines, e.g. The Rialto, Chapman, Ambit. He edited Things Not Seen - An Anthology of Contemporary Scottish MountainPoetry (Aberdeenshire Council, 1999). His first collection, Navigationfor Innocents, was published in 2002 by Dionysia. [PSR 6]
JOHNT CAP was born in Wiltshire, England where he still lives. He won an open scholarship to study at the University of Wales. His poems have appeared in The North, Thumbscrew, Magma, and on the Finnish poetry website Nokturno. [PSR 38]
VAHNI CAPILDEO was born in 1973, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. She has lived in the UK since 1991, studying Old Norse at Christ Church, Oxford and working as an etymologist on the Oxford English Dictionary. Her work has appeared in Agenda, Poetry Wales, Southfields, Stand, Terrible Work, The Oxford Magazine, and Weyfarers. Her first volume, No Traveller Returns, was published by Salt in 2003 and herprose poem pamphlet, Person Animal Figure, by Landfill Press in 2005. She received the 25th Forward Prize for Best Collection for Measures of Expatriation (Carcanet, 2016) and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She served as a judge for the Forward Prizes (2014) and was the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at the University of Cambridge (2014-15). [PSR 8] [PSR 14] [PSR 30]
HÉLÈNE CARDONA is the author of Dreaming My Animal Selves (Salmon, 2013), The Astonished Universe (Red Hen Press, 2006), and the forthcoming Life in Suspension (Tupelo Press).She attended the International University of Menéndez Pelayo, Spain and holds an MA in American Literature from the Sorbonne. Hélène translated for the NEA and the Canadian Embassy, and received fellowships from the Goethe-Institutand the Universidad Internacional de Andalucía. [PSR 25]
LUCINDA CAREY is a member of Poets Torbay and The Plymouth Language Group. Recent work was published in Poetry Scotland and THE SHOp. [PSR 12]
VUYELWA CARLIN was born in South Africa in 1949 and brought up in Uganda. She has lived formany years in Shropshire. Collections to date: The Solitary (2008), Marble Sky (2002),How We Dream of the Dead (1996), and Midas' Daughter (1991; all Seren). Her new collection, Long Shadows, was published by Poetry Salzburg in April 2016. [PSR 5] [PSR 10] [PSR 13] [PSR 17] [PSR 20] [PSR 25] [PSR 28] [PSR 29] [PSR 31] [PSR 33] [PSR 35] [PSR 39]
RACHEL CARNEY has had poems published in Ink Sweat and Tears, The High Window, The Ekphrastic Review, The Open Mouse, Sarasvati, and The Wales Haiku Journal. She is a book blogger at www.createdtoread.com and has also written articles and reviews for various magazines and websites including Wales Arts Review and The Poetry School. She is currently completing an MA in Creative Writing, and has been awarded a place on the 2019 Literature Wales mentoring scheme. [PSR 34]
Having graduated with an MA from the National Film and Television School, JONATHAN CARR works as a screenwriter and teacher. He has published poems in Orbis, Poetry Monthly, and The Interpreter's House. His short film The Magnificent Lion Boy premiered at Cannes in 2013 and was long-listed for a BAFTA. He lives and works in Hackney, East London. [PSR 34]
PATRICK CARRINGTON is the author of Hard Blessings (2008),Rise, Fall and Acceptance (2006, both MSR Publishing), and Thirst (Codhill, 2007). His poems have appeared in journals like The National Poetry Review, American Literary Review,Agenda, Poetry Ireland Review, and Poetry New Zealand. [PSR 16]
JEFFREY CARSON was born in 1944, and raisedin NYC. Since 1970 he has lived with his wife, the photographer ElizabethCarson, on the island of Paros, where he teaches at the Aegean Center forthe Fine Arts. Among his books are Poems 1974-1996 (Salzburg UP,1997), Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis (Johns Hopkins UP, 1997),The Temple and the Dolphin (Lycabettus Press, 1995), 49 Scholiaon the Poems of Odysseus Elytis (Ypsilon, 1983), and Paros (LycabettusPress, 1977). His poems also appeared in the anthology Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece (ed. Don Schofield; Truman UP, 2004). [PSR 1] [PSR 2] [PSR 3] [PSR 6] [PSR 7] [PSR 9]
MALCOLM CARSON was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire. He moved to Belfast with his family before returning to Lincolnshire, becoming an auctionneer and then a farm labourer. He studied English at Nottingham University, and then taught in colleges and universities. He now lives in Carlisle, Cumbria. He has had four full collections published by Shoestring Press: Breccia (2006), Rangi Changi and Other Poems (2011), Route Choice (2016), and The Where and When (2019). [PSR 32] [PSR 37]
JENNIFER CARTER-ZIELIŃSKA is an American freelance translator who makes her home in Sopot, Poland. In addition to numerous commercial and scientific translations, her published work includes translations of the poetry ofKazimierz Wierzyński (PSR 11), Katyn by Andrzej Wajda (Prószynski i S-ka, 2008), and Museby Zbigniew Rossa (Grafikon, 2008). [PSR 15]
JAMES CARUTH was born in Belfast but has lived in Sheffield for the last 30 years. His first collection (A Stone's Throw (Staple, 2007) was followed by Dark Peak (Longbarrow, 2008) and the pamphlet (Marking the Lambs (smith/doorstop, 2012). "The Deposition" won the 2011 Sheffield Poetry Prize. His pamphlet (The Death of Narrative was a winner of the 2014 Poetry Business Competition judged by Carol Ann Duffy. Poetry Salzburg will publish his new pamphlet (Narrow Water in October 2017. [PSR 31]
CAROLINE CARVER has won many prizes, including the National Poetry Prize in 1998, the Italian Silver Wyvernin 2008, and the Guernsey "On the Buses" in 2010. She is a Hawthornden Fellow, has published 4 collections, the latest beingTikki Tikki Man (Ward Wood, 2012). [PSR 22]
AOIFE CASBY holds an MA in Writing and an MA in Psychology and lives in Carraroe, Co. Galway. Her work has appeared in Poetry Ireland, Cyphers, Orbis, and The Cork Literary Review.A joint chapbook, with Celeste Auge, Smoke & Skin, was published in 2008 by Lapwing. [PSR 18]
MARK CASSIDY grew up on the Isle of Wight. Returning to his birthplace of Birmingham to study Biochemistry, he foundmany diversions, including punk music & politics. A few of his poemshave appeared online in The Electric Acorn and Bonfire. Henow lectures in Radiography at the University of Portsmouth. [PSR 9]
JONATHAN CATHERALL has published poems in Erotoplasty, Blackbox Manifold, Envoi, Datableed, PN Review, Shearsman, 3AM, Tears in the Fence, and The Frogmore Papers. He has reviewed for The Wolf and launched a new online poetry magazine called Tentacular in 2018. He lives in London, working as a freelance consultant in the charity and arts sectors. [PSR 34]
GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS (ca. 84 - ca. 54 BC) was a Roman lyric poet. His 116 Latin poems, or carmina, are regarded as some of the most formally elegant, psychologically probing, and sexually explicit poetry ever written and have been admired by poets from Martial (born in Rome roughly two generations after Catullus) to W. B. Yeats. [PSR 29] [PSR 36]
CRAIG CAUDILL is a freelance writer and video installationartist. His chapbook four am writings was published by One-Legged Cow Press in 2005.He is currently working on his first novel.[PSR 11]
PAULO CAVALCANTE was born in Rio de Janeiro, in December 1961.His art-works were published in several newspapers and magazines in Brazil. He participated in exhibitionsof design and painting in Brazil and other countries. Now, he is working for O Globo, one ofthe most important newspapers in Brazil. In 2000, with three other artists, he launched Papel Brasil,an art magazine. He twice received the prize "The Best Newspaper Design"(Individual Porfolio and Award of Excellence) from the Society of Newspaper Design (SND).[PSR 10]
GLEN CAVALIERO (1927-2019) was of mixed Italian and north country English descent.Educated at Tonbridge School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1965 he moved to Cambridgewhere he read for a degree in English, obtaining his doctorate in 1972. He lived and taught there as a memberof the Faculty of English and a Fellow Commoner of St. Catharine's College. He is the author of six collections of poems,including Ancestral Haunt (Poetry Salzburg, 2002) and, his latest, The Justice of the Night(Tartarus Press, 2007). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he contributed to numerous journals andperiodicals, including The New Yorker, PN Review, Stand, and The TLS.[PSR 8][PSR 9][PSR 10][PSR 12][PSR 13][PSR 16]
ANN CEFOLA is the author of Free Ferry (Upper Hand Press, 2017) and Face Painting in the Dark (Dos Madres Press, 2014); and translator of Hélène Sanguinetti's Alparegho, like nothing else (The Operating System, 2019), The Hero (Chax Press, 2018), and Hence This Cradle (Seismicity Editions, 2007). Recipient of the Robert Penn Warren Award judged by John Ashbery, she lives and works in the New York suburbs. [PSR 34]
Born in 1949 in the United States, ALFRED CELESTINE emigrated toEngland in 1972 to concentrate on his poetry. To date, he has published two collections,Confessions of Nat Turner (Many Press, 1978) and Passing Eliot in the Street (Nettles Press, 2003).Currently he is planning to revive enRoute Press.[PSR 12]
SRINJAY CHAKRAVARTI is a 31-year-oldjournalist, economist and poet based in Salt Lake City, Calcutta, India.His first book of poems, Occam's Razor (Calcutta: Writers Workshop,1994), received the SALT literary award from a literary trust in Melbourne,Australia in 1995.[PSR 7]
ANTHONY CHALK has been published in Mind Matters Review,Psychopoetica, Paris Atlantic, among others. He is best-known for writing parody and satirical poetry.He is currently the poetry section editor for Open Minds Quarterly.[PSR 10]
MELANIE CHALLENGER graduated from OxfordUniversity in 2000. Her work has been published variously in magazinesand anthologies, including Fulcrum, Scintilla and PoetryReview. Her first libretto was published in July 2004 by Chester Music,and premiered by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.[PSR 7]
PRUE CHAMBERLAYNE grew up by the River Severn, lives in London and France, and has traced a life through languages, comparative social policy, biographical research, and rural development in Uganda. Poems have been published in Myslexia, Orbis, Poetry Wales, and Scintilla. [PSR 30]
AVIK CHANDA is a painter, freelance journalist and poet, writing in both English, and his native tongue, Bengali. Originally coming from India, he currently lives in the US, where he works as amanagement consultant. Work has appeared in Borderlines, Orbis, Envoi, and Stride Magazine. His first collection in English, Footnotes, was published by Shearsman in 2008. [PSR 15]
JOHN CHALLIS is a poet, researcher and teacher. His first pamphlet of poems, The Black Cab, was published by Poetry Salzburg in 2017, and was chosen by New Writing North as a 2019 Read Regional title. His first full collection, The Resurrectionists, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2021, and highly commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry. In 2022 he published Hallsong (New Writing North, 2022), a pamphlet of poems produced while he was writer-in-residence at the National Trust's Seaton Delaval Hall. He has received a Pushcart Prize, a Northern Writers' Award, and an Authors' Foundation grant from The Society of Authors. His work has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4, in Ambit, The Guardian, Poetry London, and Poetry Ireland Review. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Newcastle University, and in 2015 was selected by the Poetry Trust as one of the Aldeburgh Eight. He works as a Research Associate at Newcastle University. He lives in the North East of England. [PSR 31] [PSR 33] [PSR 34] [PSR 39] [PSR 40]
SAMANTHA CHARLTON, born in Bradford, England, lives and works in Ipswich. An artist and writer of books for children she now focuses on poetry and is currently working on her first collection - Hansel's Return. [PSR 40]
MICHAEL CHEVAL was born in 1966 in Kotelnikovo, a small town of southern Russia.His family moved to Germany in 1980 and in 1986 he moved to Turkmenistan and graduated from Ashgabad School of Fine Art. In 1997 he emigrated to the USA. In 1998 Cheval became a member of the prestigious National Arts Club where he was distinguished with the Exhibition Committee Award in 2000. Cheval has specialized in Absurdist paintings, drawings, and portraits. He has published two full-colored art albums - Lullabies (2004)and Nature of Absurdity (2007). [PSR 17] [PSR 24] [PSR 26] [PSR 28] [PSR 31] [PSR 34] [PSR 39]
ADAM CHILES' work has appeared in numerous journals including Barrow Street,Beloit Poetry Journal, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Magma, The Malahat Review,Other Poetry, and Painted Bride Quarterly. His first book Evening Land was published byCinnamon Press in 2008. He teaches English and Creative Writing at the Northern Virginia Community College.[PSR 15]
KEVIN MARSHALL CHOPSON received his MFA from Murray State University. His poems have appeared orare forthcoming in REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters, The Baltimore Review, English Journal,Birmingham Arts Journal, New Madrid, Concho River Review, The South Carolina Review, San Pedro River Review,Tipton Poetry Journal, Chiron Review, Poem, The Aurorean, and The Chaffin Journal. He teachesWriting at Davidson Academy and Volunteer State Community College, both just north of Nashville, Tennessee.[PSR 21]
SCOTT ANDREW CHRISTENSEN completed an MFA in English & Writing from Southampton College,Long Island University and has published poetry previously in Poetry Salzburg Review with poems forthcoming inThe Dalhousie Review and The Fiddlehead. A native of Nova Scotia, he now lives in the Middle East with his wife and daughter.[PSR 21][PSR 23]
JENNIE CHRISTIAN is based in north London and is of Irish parentage. She is a freelancedigital copywriter and a former print journalist. Over the past few years her poems have appeared in Agenda,Ink Sweat & Tears, London Grip, Orbis, and SOUTH.[PSR 27] After a career in teaching, first as a Science teacher, then later as a Head of a Comprehensive School in Warrington,
MARY CHUCK began writing inspired by some wonderful poetry at the Wordsworth Trust. Since then she has been writing in Grasmere, in Warrington and on residential courses for more than ten years, but has only very recently started sending out poems. Her poetry has been published in The North and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She chairs the Estate Committee of the Wordsworth Trust. [PSR 35]
WILLIAM CIROCCO lives in San Francisco with his wife, the painter Louise Victor andtheir son, Billy. His most recent book of poems is aerolith (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007). A small booklet,Three Psalms for Robert Lax, was published by Kater Murr's Press in 2002. He is also the printer of fine artletterpress publications from hawkhaven press, which include works by Robert Lax, David Miller, Frank Samperi, and Thomas A. Clark.[PSR 2][PSR 13]
THOMAS A. CLARK lives in the small fishing village of Pittenweem, on the east coast of Scotland. He has published numerous small books and cards with his own Moschatel Press. In the summer months, with the artist Laurie Clark, he runs Cairn, a project space for minimal and conceptual art. His work often appears as installations or interventions in galleries, public spaces or in the landscape. A large collection of such work has been installed throughout New Stobhill Hospital in Glasgow. The three poetry collections from Carcanet are The Hundred Thousand Places (2009), Yellow & Blue (2014), and Farm by the Shore (2017). [PSR 32]
ADRIAN CLARKE's publications include Ghost Measures (Actual Size Press, 1987),Obscure Disasters (1993), Paradise Gardens (2000), and Skeleton Sonnets (2002, all Writers Forum).His most recent collections from Veer Books are Former Haunts (2004) and Possession (2007).He co-edited Angel Exhaust magazine with Stephen Pereira in the 1980s and 1990s. He co-edited the anthologyFloating Capital: New Poets from London (Potes & Poets Press, 1991) with Robert Sheppard and five issues ofAND magazine with the late Bob Cobbing. A frequent performer of his poetry, he was also part of the performanceduo Strèss with the poet and composer Virginia Firnberg. He lives in Whitstable, Kent in the South of England.[PSR 5][PSR 15]
DAVID CLARKE is a teacher and researcher living in Gloucestershire, UK. His first pamphlet, Gaud,was joint winner of the Flarestack Poets prize 2012 and subsequently won the Michael Marks Award in 2013.His first collection, Arc, was published by Nine Arches Press in September 2015.[PSR 28]
IAN CLARKE was born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire in 1954. His poems have appeared in Acumen, Envoi and online with Ink, Sweat & Tears. His first collection is A Slow Stirring (Indigo Dreams, 2012). [PSR 29]
JOHN WEDGWOOD CLARKE trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama andhas a DPhil in Modernist Poetics from the University of York. He also works as UK and Ireland editor for Arc Publicationsand teaches poetry freelance on the part-time creative degree at the University of Hull. His debut pamphlet Sea Swim was published by Valley Press in 2012. He grew up in St. Ives, Cornwall, and now lives in Scarborough. [PSR 25]
STEPHEN CLAUGHTON grew up in Manchester, read English at Oxford and worked for many years as a civil servant inLondon. He has published two pamphlets, The War with Hannibal (Poetry Salzburg, 2019) and The 3-D Clock (Dempsey & Windle, 2020). A member of Ver Poets, he reviews poetry for The High Window and London Grip. His poems have appeared in Agenda, The Interpreter's House, Iota, Magma, Other Poetry,and The Warwick Review and online at Agenda Supplement, Ink Sweat & Tears, London Grip, and The Poetry Shed. [PSR 27] [PSR 32] [PSR 40]
WAYNE CLEMENTS is a writer and artist living in London. His poetry has appeared in And, Angel Exhaust, and Terrible Work. Writers Forum Press published two collections of visual work (2000 and 2001),and a longer poem, History of the Russian Revolution (2005). [PSR 18]
CODY-ROSE CLEVIDENCE is the author of BEAST FEAST (2014) and Flung/Throne (2018), both from Ahsahta Press, and Aux Arc / Trypt Ich (2021) from Nightboat as well as several handsome chapbooks (flowers and cream, NION, garden door press, Auric). They live in the Arkansas Ozarks. [PSR 39]
GRAHAM CLIFFORD is the author of Welcome Back to the Country (2010), The Hitting Game (2014, both Seren), Computer Generated Crash Test Dummies (BLER, 2017), and Well (Against the Grain, 2019). He is a Head Teacher in East London where he champions the arts in state education. [PSR 37]
HARRY CLIFTON, born in Dublin in 1952, won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 1981. He returned toIreland in 2004 and is currently Ireland Professor of Poetry. His collections of poems includeSecular Eden: Paris Notebooks 1994-2004 (Wake Forest UP, 2007), which won the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, Night Train through the Brenner (1994) and The Desert Route: Selected Poems 1973-88 (1992; both Gallery Press). His most recent collection, The Winter Sleep of Captain Lemass, was published by Wake Forest UP and Bloodaxe in 2013. [PSR 25] [PSR 27]
ANNE CLUYSENAAR (1936-2014), born in Belgium, reached Britain with her parents justbefore the outbreak of war. Her parents eventually moved to the West of Ireland then returned to Brussels in the early 1950s while Anne stayed to take a degree in French and English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. She lived in Wales.Her collections include Touching Distances (2014), Migrations (2011; both Cinnamon Press),Water to Breathe (Flarestack, 2009), and Batu-Angas: Envisioning Nature with Alfred Russel Wallace (Seren, 2008). [PSR 27]
CAROLE COATES had four full collections published by Shoestring Press, the latest of which is Jacob (2016). Wayleave Press published her pamphlet Crazy Days in 2014 and her most recent publication, a pamphlet called The Stories They Told Her, has just been brought out by Shoestring Press. [PSR 34]
DAVE COATES, a critic and researcher, is based in Edinburgh. Critical work has appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, and Sabotage Reviews. [PSR 33]
Author of six poetry collections, MANDY COE writes for adults and children. Her awards include the Ted Walters Prize, Ilkley Festival Poetry Prize, and a Hawthornden Fellowship. She has held residencies with the Poetry Society, Bath Festivals, and National Galleries and Museums. Her work on teaching poetry has been published by Bloomsbury and Cambridge University Press. Mandy is a Visiting Fellow of The Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. She lives in Liverpool. [PSR 30]
AIDAN COLEMAN was born in Aberystwyth, Wales, in 1976 and moved to Australia when he was eight. His two poetry collections are Avenues & Runways (2006) and Asymmetry (2012, both Brandl & Schlesinger). His poems have appeared in The Australian, Australian Book Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Warwick Review. He lives in Adelaide. [PSR 32]
R. D. COLEMAN is a writer and photographer who lives in New York. He has worked asan investigator, a welfare department caseworker, a union organizer, a gang worker on the city's Lower East Side,a union bureaucrat, a director of homeless shelters, and even a city commissioner. His work has appeared inAcumen, Envoi, Poetry Review, and Midwestern University Quarterly. [PSR 13]
IAN COLLIER-WEBB, a civil servant, lives in Bath. He is a founder memberof the Poet's Voice group at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution. He has been published inThe French Literary Review and Snakeskin. [PSR 26]
ROBERT COLMAN is a Newmarket, Ont.-based writer and editor. He is the author of two poetry collections, Little Empires (Quattro Books, 2012) and The Delicate Line (Exile Editions, 2008). His most recent publication is the chapbook Factory (Frog Hollow Press, 2015). [PSR 33]
A former teacher and graduate of the MA programme at the Seamus Heaney Centre, STEPHANIE CONN won the Yeovil Poetry Prize, Funeral Service NI Prize, and the inaugural Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing. In 2016 Doire Press published her first collection, The Woman on the Other Side, her pamphlet Copeland's Daughter (smith|doorstop, 2016) won the Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition. Her latest collection, Island, was published by Diore Press in April 2018. [PSR 30] [PSR 33]
ANNA FONTI CONNELL was born in Canton Ticino, Switzerland and is a professional translator.She is currently translating a collection of Italian futurist fiction and a collection of 19th-century Italian fantasy,and has translation work forthcoming in Words Without Borders. [PSR 18]
BRENDAN CONNELL, born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1970, is an American writer and translator.His translations have appeared in a number of places, including poems from the Chinese of Li Yu in Literature of Asia, Africa and Latin America(Prentice Hall, 1999) and The Sutra of Immeasurable Life and Wisdom translated from the Tibetan in Ashé Journal.He is currently translating a collection of poems by Alberto Nessi. [PSR 18]
PAUL CONNOLLY's poems have been published in Agenda, Canada Quarterly, The Cannon's Mouth, Dream Catcher, Orbis, The Dawntreader, The Journal, The Reader, and The Warwick Review. He was awarded Third Prize in the 2015 Magna Carta Poetry Competition (judged by George Szirtes). [PSR 29] [PSR 33] [PSR 36]
COLETTE CONNOR. Poet and Playwright. Bornand lives in Dublin. Short-listed for a Hennessy Award 1994. Her work hasappeared in various periodicals and anthologies including Poetry IrelandReview, Books Ireland, Cuirt 4, Chapman (IrishIssue), Writing Women etc. She was a participant in the 1999 National Writers' Workshop at NUI, Galway. [PSR 1]
MARK CONNORS is a poet and novelist from Leeds, UK. His debut pamphlet, Life is a Long Song, was published by OWF Press in 2015. Nothing Is Meant to Be Broken (Stairwell Books, 2017) is his debut collection. [PSR 32]
DAVID CONSTANTINE was born in Salford in 1944. For thirty years he taught German at the Universities of Durham and Oxford. He holds honorary professorships in English at the Universities of Liverpool and Aberystwyth. He has published a dozen volumes of poetry (most recently - 2020 - Belongings); two novels, Davies (1985) and The Life-Writer (2015); and five collections of short stories (the most recent being The Dressing-up Box, 2019). He is an editor and translator of Hölderlin, Goethe, Kleist and Brecht. For his stories he won the BBC National and the Frank O'Connor International Awards (2010, 2013). The film 45 Years was based on his story "In Another Country". From 2003 to 2012 he was joint editor (with Helen Constantine) of Modern Poetry in Translation. In 2020 he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He lives in Oxford and the Isles of Scilly, working as a freelance writer and translator. [PSR 33] [PSR 37]
TREVOR CONWAY lives and studies in Galway. A writer of fiction, poetry, music, and filmscripts, his work has appeared in magazines such as Ropes, Decanto, The Sharp Review, and The Gown. [PSR 17]
CHRISTINA COOK has an MFA in Poetry and Translation. Most recently her poemshave appeared in Sojourn: A Journal of the Arts and Inertia Magazine. [PSR 15]
ELIZABETH COOK has written poetry, fiction, and libretti. Her fiction includes Achilles (Methuen and Picador USA, 2002) and Lux (Scribe, 2019). She was librettist for Francis Grier's The Passion of Jesus of Nazareth, and has published two full collections of poetry, Bowl (2006) and When I Kiss the Sky (2021, both Worple Press) as well as a pamphlet, The Sound of the Rain (The Garlic Press, 2017). She has been a Hawthornden Fellow and, more recently, a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University. [PSR 41]
BELINDA COOKE completed a PhD on the poetry of Robert Lowellin 1993 and since that time her Russian translations, poetry and reviews have been published widely. She has published onechapbook of her own poetry: Resting Place (Flarestack, 2008) and her first full-length collection of translations:Paths of the Beggarwoman: The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva (Worple Press, 2008). In collaboration with Richard McKane she published a translation of Boris Poplavsky's Flags (Shearsman, 2010). In 2018 her translation of Ilias Jansugurov's epic poem Kulager (Kazakh National Translation Agency) was released. The High Window Press published her translation of Marina Tsvetaeva's Forms of Exile in 2019 and her new collection of her own poems, Stem, in 2020. She lives and teaches on the west coast of Scotland. [PSR 6] [PSR 8] [PSR 12] [PSR 16] [PSR 20] [PSR 35] [PSR 36]
DAVID COOKE was born in the UK but his family comes from the West of Ireland. He won a Gregory Award in 1977, while still an undergraduate at Nottingham University. His poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in Agenda, Ambit, The Critical Quarterly, The Interpreter's House, The London Magazine, Magma, The North, Orbis, Other Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, The SHOp, and Stand. He has published five collections of his poetry, the latest is After Hours (Cultured Llama, 2017). He is also the founder and co-editor of The High Window. [PSR 16] [PSR 20] [PSR 23] [PSR 27] [PSR 32] [PSR 36]
STUART COOKE's latest books are the poetry collection Lyre (UWAP, 2019) and a translation of Gianni Siccardi's The Blackbird (Vagabond Press, 2018), and with Peter Denney he co-edited Transcultural Ecocriticism (Bloomsbury, 2021). He lives in Brisbane, Australia, where he is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literary Studies at Griffith University. [PSR 38]
BOB COOPER has published the pamphlets Bruised Echoes (Outposts, 1977), Light from the Upper Left (Smith|Doorstop, 1994), Beyond Liathach (Tears in the Fence, 1995), Drinking Up Time (Redbeck Press, 1998), Pinocchio's Long Neb (Smith|Doorstop, 2000), The Ideal Overcoat (WardWood, 2012), and two collections: All We Know Is All We See (Arrowhead, 2002) and Everyone Turns (Pindrop, 2017). He lives on the Wirral in the UK. [PSR 38]
MARYANN CORBETT lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and works as a legal-writing adviser, editor, and indexer for the Minnesota Legislature. She holds a doctorate in English from the University of Minnesota. She haspublished two chapbooks: Gardening in a Time of War (Pudding House, 2007) and Dissonance (Scienter Press, 2009).Her work has appeared in River Styx, Atlanta Review, The Evansville Review, Measure, Literary Imagination, The Dark Horse, and Linebreak, among others. [PSR 20]
FLAVIA COSMA is a Romanian-born Canadian poet. She has a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. She is an award-winning independenttelevision documentary producer, director, and writer, and has published seven books of poetry,a novel and a book of fairy tales. 47 Poems (Texas Tech UP, 1992) received the ALTA Richard Wilbur Poetry in Translation Prize. [PSR 10]
ANTHONY COSTELLO was born in the UK. He has worked as an engineer, a teacher, bookseller, and horticulturist.After a year travelling in Southeast Asia, he is now working as a freelance garden designer and freelance writer in France. His work has appeared in Magma, Fire, Anon 8, Orbis, Poetry Review, and Dream Catcher. Poetry Salzburg published his pamphlet I Freeze, Turn to Stone in October 2018. [PSR 24] [PSR 32]
DAVID J. COSTELLO is is a previous winner of the Welsh International Poetry Competition (2011) and was also a prize winner in the Troubadour International Poetry Competition (2015) and the Penfro Poetry Competition (2019). His pamphlets are Human Engineering (Thynks Publishing, 2013) and No Need for Candles (Red Squirrel Press, 2016). Heft, his first full collection, was published by Red Squirrel Press in March 2020. [PSR 36]
T. ZACHARY COTLER teaches at Hartwick College in New York. Most recently his work has beenpublished in The Antioch Review, FIELD, The London Magazine, Paris Review, Poetry,Post Road, Southern Review, and The Wolf.[PSR 17]
BRENDA COULTAS is the author of The Tatters (Wesleyan UP, 2014),The Marvelous Bones of Time (2008), and A Handmade Museum (2003; both Coffee House Press). Her poetrycan be found in The Brooklyn Rail, Denver Quarterly, and Witness. She lives in New York City."Two Masques for Emily Harvey" hang in the art show Masks, Photos, Video, Texts, and Documents in Memory of Emily Harvey,which opened at the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice on October 18th 2014.[PSR 26]
TOM COVERDALE lives in Melbourne, Australia. His poetry has been printed in Quadrant, Southerly, Overland, and Antipodes, and anthologised in The Best Australian Poems (Black Inc, 2005) and Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (Tupelo Press, 2014). [PSR 35]
QUENTIN COWDRY is a poet, headhunter and former Fleet Street journalist who held staff roles on The Times, The Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Telegraph. He has had poetry published in The Cannon's Mouth, Obsessed with Pipework, South, and The French Literary Review. [PSR 37]
CRAIG COYLE lives in Wishaw, and currently works as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Mental Health with NHS Lanarkshire. He was a mentee with the Clydebuilt Apprenticeship program in 2017. His poetry has been published in Stand, Fire, Obsessed with Pipework, The English Chicago Review, Gutter, and Verse. His poem "The Drive Home" was featured in The Guardian as Poem of the Month. [PSR 37]
DEREK COYLE has published poems in The Irish Times, Irish Pages, The Texas Literary Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Orbis, Skylight 47, Assaracus, and The Stony Thursday Book. His first collection, Reading John Ashbery in Costa Coffee Carlow (2019), is an English/Swedish dual-language edition. His second collection, Sipping Martinis under Mount Leinster, will be published in 2022 (both Magnus Grehn Förlag). He is a founding member of the Carlow Writers' Co-Operative. He lectures in Carlow College/St Patrick's. [PSR 37] [PSR 38]
Born in Hong Kong, CLAIRE COX now lives and works in Oxfordshire, UK. She is currently undertaking a part-time, practice-based PhD on poetry and disaster at Royal Holloway, University of London. She previously completed an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University, winning the Blackwell's Prize for best student. She is a winner of the Nine Arches Press Primers: Volume Five pamphlet competition, and the 2020 Wigtown Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize. Her poems have appeared in Butcher's Dog, Envoi, Magma, and Lighthouse. She is co-founder and Associate Editor for ignitionpress. [PSR 37]
DAVID CRANN practiced as a solicitor in a Yorkshire market town until 1989 when a voluntary life-change removed him and his family to Provence where he became a wholesale bookseller, retiring in 2002. He has won First Prize in Barnet Keynes Open Creative Writing 2008 and Mary Charman-Smith Poetry Competition 2012. His poetry has appeared in French Literary Review, Orbis, and the Barnet Poetry Anthology. He is a regular contributor to Cote Poets, Cote d'Azur, France. [PSR 31]
NATALIE CRICK, from Newcastle, is studying for an MPhil in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Her poetry has been published in Stand, The Moth, Banshee, The Dark Horse, The Poetry Review, New Welsh Review, The Interpreter's House, Poetry Scotland, The Shop, Pennine Platform, The High Window, Southlight, London Grip, Dawntreader, New Welsh Review, Seventh Quarry, The Journal, and The Manchester Review. Her mini-chapbook is Lullabies (Bitterzoet Press, 2018). Her poetry features in the collaborative pamphlet Co-Incidental 5 (The Black Light Engine Room Press, 2019). She was awarded second prize in the Newcastle Poetry Competition 2020. She is the poetry editor of Fragmented Voices (Newcastle, Prague). [PSR 33] [PSR 36] [PSR 39]
JAMES CROAL JACKSON is a Filipino-American poet who works in film production. He has three chapbooks: Count Seeds with Me (Ethel Zine & Micro-Press, 2022), Our Past Leaves (Kelsay Books, 2021), and The Frayed Edge of Memory (Writing Knights, 2017). He edits The Mantle Poetry from Pittsburgh, PA.
IAN CROCKATT is a Scottish poet and translator. His Original Myths (Cruachan Publications) is a series of 12 poems re-imagining stories from the Old Testament, with etchings by Scottish artist Paul Fleming. Pure Contradiction, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (Arc Publications, 2012) won the Society of Authors Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German Translation in 2013, and Crimsoning the Eagles Claw: The Viking Poems of Rognvaldr Kali Kolsson, Earl of Orkney (Arc Publications, 2014), translated from Old Norse, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He lives in Aberdeenshire. [PSR 39]
ANDY CROFT has written over 80 books - poetry, novels, biography and children's fiction. He curates the T-junction international poetry festival in Middlesbrough and the Ripon poetry festival, and runs Smokestack Books. His books of poetry include Ghost Writer, Three Men on the Metro (with W.N. Herbert and Paul Summers), 1948 (with Martin Rowson), A Modern Don Juan (with Nigel Thompson), and Letters to Randall Swingler. He has given poetry readings in many places, including Paris, Sofia, Moscow, Novosibirsk, New York, and Basra. [PSR 34]
ALISON CROGGON (born 1962) is an Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist. Born in the Transvaal, South Africa, her family moved to England before settling in Australia. Collections: Theatre (Salt, 2008), November Burning (Vagabond, 2004), The Common Flesh: Poems 1980-2002 (Arc, 2003), Attempts at Being (Salt, 2002), Mnemosyne (Wild Honey Press, 2001), The Blue Gate (Black Pepper Press, 1997), andThis is the Stone (Penguin Books Australia, 1991). [PSR 15]
LISA M. CRONKHITE has published work among others in Clark Street Review, The Penwood Review, Soul Fountain, and Fighting Chance Magazine. She suffers from Bipolar Disorder and writes as a coping skill. [PSR 16]
SETH CROOK lives on Mull and has taught philosophy at various universities. His poems have appeared in The Rialto, Magma, Pennine Platform, Poetry Scotland, The Interpreter's House, Northwords Now, Poetry Scotland, and Gutter, and in the anthologies A470 (Arachne Press, 2022), All Becomes Art (Speculative Books, 2022), Sea Change (New Voices Press, 2021), Heart/h (Fragmented Voices, 2021), and The SHOp: An Anthology (Liffey, 2020). He has a pamphlet of visual poems Chalked on the Path (Dreich, 2021). [PSR 38] [PSR 41]
CHARLES CROS (1842-1888) is the author of two major collections of poetry: Le Coffret de santal (1873) and Le Collier de griffes (published posthumously). A member of the avant-garde of French poetry, he enjoyed the acquaintance of Mallarmé, Rimbaud and Verlaine, had connexions with the Impressionists, published in Parisian literary journals, and was very much at home in the world of the Parisian bohéme. At the same time he was a distinguished scientist and inventor. He exhibited an automatic telegraph at the Paris Exhibition (1867), invented colour photography, and has, at least, claims to be considered the inventor of the phonograph, though he was unable in this last regard to oppose, according to one of his editors, the "puissant offensive" of Edison. By no means overlooked in his own day, his reputation has since been constantly on the increase, with René Char and André Breton among his modern admirers. [PSR 35]
CLARE CROSSMAN won the Redbeck Poetry Competition in 1996. Since then she has published two collections with Shoestring: Vanishing Point (2013) and The Shape of Us (2010). [PSR 30]
ANAMARÍA CROWE SERRANO is Irish and lives in Dublin. She has worked as a freelance translator from Italian and Spanish, reader for the blind, teacher of Spanish language and translation at Dublin City University andTrinity College Dublin. Her publications include Femispheres (Shearsman, 2008) and one columbus leap (corrupt press, 2011). [PSR 15] [PSR 21]
MICHAEL CROWLEY's first full collection of poetry, First Fleet, was published by Smokestack Books in 2016; his pamphlet, Close to Home, by Prole Books in 2012. He has also written drama for stage and radio, non-fiction, and recently a novella. He lives in West Yorkshire. [PSR 31]
CLAIRE CROWTHER lives in Somerset and has a PhD in Contemporary English Poetry from Kingston University.Her work has appeared in many journals including The TLS, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, and Shearsman.Shearsman published her collections Stretch of Closures (2007) and The Clockwork Gift (2009).[PSR 6][PSR 9][PSR 23]
ANTONIO CUADRADO-FERNÁNDEZ currently lives in the UK, where he has recently finished his PhD onpostcolonial poetry in the School of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where he has taughtliterary theory and is presently working on the ecopoetry project (http://www.uea.ac.uk/ams/ecopoetry).[PSR 18]
BARBARA CUMBERS is a retired geologist and librarian who lives in London. [PSR 26]
MARTYN CRUCEFIX - Between a Drowning Man will be published by Salt in 2023. Recent publications: Cargo of Limbs (Hercules Editions, 2019); These Numbered Days, poems by Peter Huchel (Shearsman, 2019), won the 2020 Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize. Translations of essays by Lutz Seiler, In Case of Loss, is due from And Other Stories in 2023. A major Rilke Selected, Change Your Life, will be published by Pushkin Press in 2024. Royal Literary Fund Fellow at The British Library. [PSR 40]
JAMES CUMMINS was born in the Middle East but because of his pale colouring could neverbe mistaken for anything but Irish. He attended Dartington College of Arts in the UK and got a Degree in Performance Writingfor his trouble. In 2005 he set up DEFAULT publishing in order to promote the kinds of poetry he enjoys to read. [PSR 15]
SIMON CURRIE was born in Leeds in 1938. He became a consultant neurologist, retired early to do medieval landscape study as botanist. He did a PhD on the interaction between European and indigenous medical practitioners in British and other colonies. His first collection, The Isle of Lewis Chessman, was published by smith/doorstop in 2013. [PSR 31]
MICHAEL CURTIS grew up in Liverpool, attended Oxford and Sheffield universities, and now lives in Kent. He has worked in library and cultural services and events management, including running international poetry tours. His latest collection, The Fire in Me Now, was published by Cultured Llama in 2014 and his pamphlet sequence, Lullaby Days, was published by Indigo Dreams in 2015. [PSR 11] [PSR 27] [PSR 30] [PSR 32]
TONY CURTIS was born in west Wales in 1946. He studied at Swansea University and Goddard College, VT, and is the author of several collections of poetry, including Crossing Over (2007) and Heaven's Gate (2001; both Seren). He has also written books of criticism, including How Poets Work (1996) and The Art of Seamus Heaney (1982; both Seren). Tony Curtis is Emeritus Professor of Poetry atthe University of Glamorgan where he established Creative Writing in the 1980s and directed the MPhil in Writing for many years. He won the 1993 Dylan Thomas Award and a Cholmondeley Award in 1997. He lives in Barry, Wales. [PSR 27]
CHRISTOPHER CUSACK received his MA in English from University College London. He is currently a postgraduate student at Radboud University Nijmegen, where he is working on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Irish and Irish-American literature, and European and American Modernism. [PSR 18]
ALEXANDER J. CUTHBERT. Originally from the East Neuk of Fife he is currently at the University of Glasgow. In 2003 and 2004 he was short-listed for the RSAMD Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize. [PSR 8]