JONATHAN FALLA. Born 1954, resident in Fife, Scotland. Novelist, dramatist and essayist. Plays: Topokana Martyrs Day (1981) and The Hummingbird Tree (1991). Fiction: Blue Poppies (11/9, 2001) and Poor Mercy (Polygon, 2005).[PSR 8]
GYÖRGY FALUDY (1910-2006) left Hungary in time to fight the Second World War with the American Air Force, returned to beimprisoned by the Communists on trumped-up charges and went into his second exile after the 1956 rebellion against Soviet rule. In 1989 he returned home after morethan three decades of self-imposed exile to receive a tumultuous welcome. He edited the Hungarian literary journal Irodalmi Ujság [Literary Gazette] inLondon (1957- 1960), taught at Columbia University and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto for services to literature. His most important works,some of them published in up to 45 editions: Francois Villon balladái [The Ballads of Francois Villon] (1937), My Happy Days in Hell(autobiography, trans. Kathleen Szasz, 1962), Test és lélek [Body and Soul] (1988), 200 szonett [200 Sonnets] (1990), 100 könnyü szonett [100 Light Sonnets] (1995), and Viharos évszázad [Turbulent Century] (2002). English translations of his poetry havebeen collected in East and West, ed. John Robert Colombo, and Selected Poems, trans. Robin Skelton (both Hounslow Press, Toronto, 1985). He died on 3 September 2006,just two weeks short of his 96th birthday.[PSR 6][PSR 11]
Born and educated in Hong Kong, KIT FAN now lives in the UK. He studied at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and completed a PhD in English at the University of York. His poems have appeared in Poetry London, Poetry Review, and Poetry Wales. His first book of poems, Paper Scissors Stone, was published by the Hong Kong University Press in 2011 and won the inaugural HKU Poetry Prize.[PSR 27]
MASSIMO FANTUZZI is an Italo-British dual national, born in Milan. Author of a collection of poems and prose poems, Marcia Gioie (Alkalea, 1999). Degree in Education. Since 2001, works in supporting SEND individuals of all ages in schools and residential settings. Lives in Leicestershire. Recently his poems have appeared in Alba, Morphrog, Poetry wtf?!, Grey Sparrow Journal, LiteLitOne, Triggerfish Critical Review (where, since publication, he has joined the editorial board) and Bombay Gin.[PSR 37]
LIVIO FARALLO is co-editor of Slipstream and Professor of Biology at Niagara County Community College in Sanborn, New York, USA. His work has appeared in The Cordite Review, The Cardiff Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Otoliths, Misfit, and Ranger.[PSR 41]
REBECCA FARIVAR is the author of Correct Animal (Octopus Books, 2011) and the chapbook American Lit (Dancing Girl Press, 2011). Her poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, 6x6, Octopus Magazine, SIR!, cold-drill, and elsewhere. A California native, she currently lives in Bonn.[PSR 21]
MARK FARRELL is a Canadian from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, who has been living in the Czech Republic for over ten years. At present he is teaching atCharles University in Prague. His work has appeared in many journals including Poesy, Rockhurst Review, Other Poetry, Keystone, Pennine Platform, and Erbacce.[PSR 11]
MICHAEL FARRELL was born in Bombala, New South Wales, and has lived in Melbourne since 1990. His latest book is Family Trees (Giramondo, 2020); he has also published an academic book, Writing Australian Unsettlement: Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and edited a tribute anthology to John Ashbery, Ashbery Mode (Tinfish, 2019). He edits the small magazine Flash Cove. His artwork can be seen on Instagram, id: limechax. [PSR 38]
MIKE FARREN is a writer and editor, 'canto' winner for Poem of the North (2018), winner of both the Saltire Festival and the Ilkley Literature Festival poetry competitions in 2020, and winner of the Red Shed Poetry Competition (2023). His pamphlets are Pierrot and His Mother (Templar, 2017), All of the Moons (Yaffle, 2019) and Smithereens (4Word, 2021). He is part of the Yaffle publishing team and one of the hosts of Rhubarb open mic in Shipley.[PSR 40]
KENNETH D. FARROW (b. 1963) is a graduate of Stirling and Glasgow Universities. He completed a Ph.D. in Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Literature at Glasgow in 1989. In 1991, he became a post-doctoral research Fellow of the British Academy and carried out his studies on Scottish historiography. From 1994-96 he was British CouncilLecturer in Modern English Philology at the Jagiellonian University of Kraków. He is currently Reviews Editor of Lallans Magazine and a Ph.D. mentor for Warnborough University. In 1998 he completed a full-length translation into Scots of Homer’s The Iliad.[PSR 4]
MICHAEL FARRY writes poetry and history. His latest poetry collection, Troubles (2020), was published by Revival Press, Limerick. Previous collections were Asking for Directions (Doghouse, 2012) and The Age of Glass (Revival, 2017). He has published widely on the history of the Irish war of independence and civil war.[PSR 38]
CLIVE FAUST was born in Melbourne before WW2 and lived in Japan for some years. Featured in Origin in 1978, 4th Series No. 4, and has published 5 volumes of verse since, 3 with Origin Press and a Selected entitled Cold's Determination (University of Salzburg Press, 1996). Worked as pay clerk, but settled down back fromJapan aged forty, as a sub-academic in Bendigo not teaching literature, in an institution much like the one Zukofsky taught at. Retired and vegetating like a noxious weed, though no longer casting seed.[PSR 3][PSR 4][PSR 9]
ELAINE FEINSTEIN is a poet, novelist, translator, and biographer. She has received many prizes, including a Cholmondeley Award for Poetry, Society of Authors’ and Arts Council Awards, and an Honorary D.Litt. from the University of Leicester. Her versions of the poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, a New York Times Book of the Year, have remained in print since 1971. Her latest collections of poetry are Portraits (2015), Cities (2010), Talking to the Dead (2007), and Collected Poems and Translations (2002; all Carcanet). [PSR 29] [PSR 31]
ALAN FELDMAN is the author of a monograph on Frank O'Hara (Twayne United States Authors Series, 1978), and several volumes of poetry: The Happy Genius (Sun) won the 1978 George Elliston Book Award for the best collection published that year by a small, independent press in the United States; A Sail to Great Island (2004) received the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry; and Immortality (2015) won the 2016 Massachusetts Book Award for poetry. His most recent collection is The Golden Coin (2018; all U of Wisconsin P), winner of the Four Lakes Prize. [PSR 39]
GERRIE FELLOWS has published five collections of poetry, among them Uncommon Place (2019), The Body in Space (2014, both Shearsman), and Window for a Small Blue Child (Carcanet, 2007). A New Zealander by birth, she has lived in Scotland since the early 1980s. [PSR 36]
ALAN FELSENTHAL is the author of Lowly (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017). His writing has appeared in BOMB , The Brooklyn Rail , Critical Quarterly , jubilat , Harper's , and the New York Times Magazine . With Ben Estes he runs a small press called The Song Cave. They co-edited A Dark Dreambox of Another Kind: The Poems of Alfred Starr Hamilton (The Song Cave, 2013).[PSR 40]
JESSE PATRICK FERGUSON has published poems and reviews in, among others, Canadian Literature, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, Poetry Ireland Review,The Walrus, Poetry, and Harper's. He has helped to edit several Canadian literary journals including The Fiddlehead, and in Fall 2009 he published his first full-length poetry collection, Harmonics (Freehand Books).[PSR 22]
ROBERT FERNANDEZ is the author of the poetry books We Are Pharaoh (Canarium, 2011), Pink Reef (Canarium, 2013), and Scarecrow (Wesleyan, 2016). He is also co-translator of Azure, a translation of the work of Stéphane Mallarmé (Wesleyan, 2015). He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. [PSR 41]
ITALO FERRANTE earned a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Warwick. He is currently undertaking an MA in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. To date, his work has been published by Train River, Nymphs & Thugs, Dreich, Queer Zine, Flash Journal, Reinvention, and Orchard Lea Press.[PSR 40]
JÉANPAUL FERRO is a novelist, short fiction author, and poet from Providence, Rhode Island.His work has appeared in Columbia Review, Emerson Review, Connecticut Review, Contemporary American Voices,Hawaii Review, Review Americana, and Sierra Nevada Review. He is the author of All the Good Promises(Plowman Press, 1994), Becoming X (BlazeVOX [books], 2008), You Know Too Much about Flying Saucers(Thumbscrew Press, 2009), Hemispheres (Maverick Duck Press, 2009), and Essendo Morti - Being Dead (Goldfish Press, 2009).[PSR 18]
ARNOLDO FEUER is the pen name of a French national, a former European diplomat with assignments in the North-Caucasus and the Balkans. He was trained as a journalist and later taught communication theories at the University of Syracuse (New York/Strasbourg). Early poetry was published under his birth name. In recent years, published in French: Couleur de roses mortes, Chemins de forêts et de champs, Formes de la lumière, each volume 47 seven-verse poems (Les Lieux-Dits Publisher, Strasbourg), now all available in their English version. “Shapes of Light” is the first tentative transliteration by the author into one of his working languages: English, German, Italian, Russian. [PSR 34]
ADAM FIELED is a poet based in Philadelphia. He has released several books and chapbooks,including Posit (Dusie Press, 2007) and Chimes (BlazeVOX [books], 2009). His work has appeared in journalslike Great Works, The Argotist, Jacket, PennSound, Tears in the Fence, andUpstairs at Duroc. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he also holds an MFA fromNew England College and an MA from Temple University.[PSR 18]
ANNIE FINCH is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, plays, translation,literary essays, textbooks, and anthologies, most recently A Poet's Craft: A Comprehensive Guide to Making and Sharing Your Poetry(U of Michigan P, 2012), Villanelles (Random House, 2012), and Spells: New and Selected Poems (Wesleyan UP, 2013).She is the winner of the Sarasvati Award for her poetry and the Robert Fitzgerald Award for her work in versification.[PSR 25]
PETER FINCH is a poet and psychogeographer who lives in Cardiff. His work is collected inZen Cymru (2010) and Selected Later Poems (2007; both Seren). His book about the Severn Estuary,Edging the Estuary, appeared from Seren in 2013. He is currently working on From the Bay to the Delta,a book about roots music, Britain and America, due from Seren this year.[PSR 2][PSR 3][PSR 27]
JOHN TEMPLE FINNIGAN was born in 1953 and raised in South Shields, on the North East Coastof England. He moved to London in 1977 and since then he has been published in magazines like The London Magazine,Orbis, and Sentinel Poetry Quarterly.[PSR 25]
JENNIFER FIRESTONE currently teachespoetry workshops at Hunter College in New York City. Her work has recentlyappeared in numerous literary journals, and her chapbook, snapshot,has just been published by Sona Books.[PSR 7]
ELSA FISCHER grew up in Holland where her first collection was published in 2002.She now writes mainly in English. She lives in Switzerland and hosts a monthly poetry workshop with the Irish poet Padraig Rooney.[PSR 26]
ALLEN FISHER is a poet, painter, publisher, and an art historian, lives in Hereford, UK. Emeritus Professor of Poetry & Art at Manchester Metropolitan University; over 150 single-authored publications of poetry, graphics, aesthetic theory and art documentation; exhibited in many shows from Tate Britain to King’s Gallery York. Examples of his work in the Tate Collection, The King’s Archive London, the Living Museum, Iceland and various British and international private collections. Last single-artist show was at the Apple Store Gallery Hereford in 2013. Two recent books of poetry and image: Gravity as a consequence of shape (Reality Street, 2016) and SPUTTOR (Veer, 2014) A second edition of the collected PLACE books of poetry (Reality Street) and IMPERFECT FIT (U of Alabama P), a book of essays on poetry and art, were published in 2016. [PSR 3] [PSR 30]
DOMINIC FISHER is based in Bristol, UK. He studied Art and English then trained as a teacher at Aberystwyth University. He taught English language in Turkey, Spain, and the UK for 33 years. His poems have recently appeared in Magma, Brittle Star, Raceme, and South Bank Poetry. [PSR 32]
ANN FISHER-WIRTH was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Germany, Pennsylvania, and Japan before her family settled in Berkeley, CA. She received a BA from Pomona College in 1968 and a PhD from Claremont Graduate School in 1981. She is the author of several poetry collections, including Mississippi (Wings Press), which is forthcoming in 2018; Dream Cabinet (Wings Press, 2012); Carta Marina (Wings Press, 2009); and Blue Window (Archer Books, 2003). Known for her interest in environmental literature, she is also the co-editor, with Laura-Gray Street, of The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity UP, 2013). She teaches English and Environmental Studies at the University of Mississippi. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi. [PSR 31]
LISA FISHMAN's newest book is World Naked Bike Ride, a collection of stories (Gaspereau Press, 2022). She is also the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition (Wave Books, 2020). Her work is anthologized in Best American Experimental Poetry 2014 (ed. Cole Swenson, Omnidawn) and The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity UP, 2020). She divides her time between Wisconsin and Nova Scotia and teaches at Columbia College Chicago. [PSR 1][PSR 2][PSR 3][PSR 6][PSR 38][PSR 39]
JANICE FIXTER was born in Kent and had lived in South East London ever since.She had an MA in Creative Writing, the Arts and Education, and a D.Phil. in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Sussex University.She had been published in Agenda, Smiths Knoll, Tears in the Fence, Staple, and Iota.In 1997 Poets Anonymous published her chapbook Walking Away from the Shadows. tall-lighthouse publishedher pamphlet walking the hawk (2005) and her collection a kind of slow motion (2007). Janice died of Burkitt's Lymphoma on 24 July 2012.[PSR 10][PSR 13][PSR 18]
S. P. FLANNERY lives in Madison, Wisconsin.His poetry has appeared in Mobius, Hummingbird, Avocet,Sidereality, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry, Lily, SpillwayReview, Electric Acorn, Free Verse, and Plum RubyReview.[PSR 9]
ANDY FLETCHER lives in Hull. His poems have appeared in Bête Noire, Butcher’s Dog, Strix, Fire, Iota, Iron, and Tears in the Fence. His collection the mile long piano was published by Ragged Raven Press in 2007. A second collection, how to be a bomb, appeared from Wrecking Ball Press in 2016.[PSR 17][PSR 21][PSR 27][PSR 41]
SIMON FLETCHER lives in Shropshire and is a widely published poet who's performed across Britain and in Pakistan, Norway and Germany. He is manager of Offa's Press (www.offaspress.co.uk) and runs poetry writing workshops in green spaces/places. An ACE-funded 'poet on loan' in West Midlands' libraries, he's read his work on BBC Radio Shropshire and the BBC Asian Network. He tutors for the Workers' Educational Association. He also organises the monthly "Virtual Voices" on Zoom and "Country Voices" at the Water Rat in Ironbridge, Telford. Author of three pamphlets and four poetry collections, his most recent is Close to Home (Headland, 2015). [PSR 37][PSR 39]
ADAM FLINT was born in North London and lives in Potsdam, Germany. Poems have appeared in Critical Documents, Shearsman Magazine, Blackbox Manifold, Stand, and Reliquiae. A chapbook, Glade Parts, appeared from Bitterzoet Press in 2015.An album, Seen Through Cirrus (2022), in collaboration with The Cube Of Unknowing, is available from the Irish record label Fort Evil Fruit.[PSR 34][PSR 40]
PIOTR FLORCZYK's recent work appeared in The American Scholar,The New Yorker, Salmagundi, The Southern Review, West Branch, and World Literature Today.He is the editor and translator of six volumes of Polish poetry. He teaches at the University of California, Riverside.[PSR 28][PSR 29]
JULIO FLOREZ ROA (1867 - 1923) was a late Romantic Colombian poet, in his country perhaps the most popular of his time. One of his poems, Mis Flores Negras ("My Black Flowers"), which he set to music himself, is still sung both inside and outside Colombia. [PSR 40]
MARK FLOYER spent his early childhood in Calcutta between the years 1957-63. He lives in Devon, UK and teaches Creative Writing with the Workers' Educational Association (WEA). He recently completed a PhD on Anglophone Indian poetry. His work has appeared in Muse India, The Irish Literary Review, Kavya Bharati, Poetry of the British Underground, and The English Chicago Review. His pamphlet Crow Dusk was published by Paekakariki Press in early 2018. [PSR 33]
MATTHEW FLUHARTY completed his M.A. increative writing at The Poet's House in Falcarragh, County Donegal (Ireland).His poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Black MountainReview, Notre Dame Review, LIT, The Beloit PoetryJournal, and elsewhere. An earlier version of "Hibernia" was broadcast on BBC Radio Three.[PSR 3]
KATE FOLEY, born in London in 1938, was awarded an honorary doctorate by De Montfort University for her work in conservation education. Since 1997 she has lived in Amsterdam where she is a member of the writers' group Wordsinhere and co-edits its magazine Versal. Collections: A Fox Assisted Cure (2012), The Silver Rembrandt (2008), Laughter from the Hive (2004; all Shoestring), A Year without Apricots (Blackwater Press, 1999), and Soft Engineering (Onlywomen Press, 1994).[PSR 23][PSR 26]
CLIFF FORSHAW's collections include Vandemonian (Arc, 2013), Pilgrim Tongues (Wrecking Ball, 2015), Satyr (Shoestring, 2017), a verse biography of Rimbaud, RE:VERB (2022), French Leave: versions and perversions (2023, both Broken Sleep), and Elemental, due from Templar in 2024. He has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at York and Hull Universities, twice a Hawthornden Writing Fellow, and held residences at Djerrassi, California, and in France, Kyrgizstan, Romania, and Tasmania. RE:VERB, a narrative sequence about Rimbaud in Africa, is due as a chapbook from Broken Sleep in 2022, who will also publish a full-length collection, French Leave: Versions and Perversions in 2023. He is also a painter. [PSR 38][PSR 41]
ANDREW FORSTER was born in Yorkshire but has lived in Scotland since 1987. He hasbeen published in magazines like The Rialto, Acumen, Obsessed with Pipework, Lines Review,Cencrastus, and others. Flarestack published his pamphlet Dress Rehearsals in 2000. His first collectionFear of Thunder was published by Flambard in 2007.[PSR 13]
BELLA FORTUNE moved to Manchester from Bristol where she worked as a theatre practitioner and writer-in-residence for Theatre Bristol. She has recently finished an MA in Creative Writing at MMU. This is her first published poem. [PSR 32]
S. J. FOWLER is a postgraduate student of Philosophy and an employee of the British Museum.He has conducted poetry journalism for numerous magazines and is acting archivist for Peter Owen publishers. His poems havefeatured in over a dozen journals including Parameter, Cadaverine, Pomegranate, Nth Position,and Poetry Monthly International. [PSR 18]
KATE FOX was born in Bradford in 1975 and qualified as a radio journalist before becominga full time poet, performer, and creative facilitator in 2006. In 2012 her one-woman Edinburgh show Kate Fox Newstoured the UK. Her work has appeared in Aesthetica, Anon, Magma, and Under the Radar.Pamphlets include Why I (Zebra Press, 2005), We Are Not Stone (Ek Zuban, 2006), and Kate Fox News(New Writing North, 2010). Fox Populi (Smokestack Books, 2013) is her first collection. She is about tobegin a PhD researching solo stand-up performance. She lives in North Yorkshire.[PSR 25]
NAOMI FOYLE is a British-Canadian poet and performer. Her first collection,The Night Pavilion, was an Autumn 2008 Poetry Book Society Recommendation, followed in 2010 by Grace of the Gamblers,an illustrated ballad pamphlet, and The World Cup, all from Waterloo Press. She is currently living in Brighton andcompleting a Creative Writing doctorate at Bangor University. [PSR 19]
MARILYN FRANCIS lives near Midsomer Norton in, what was once, the Somerset coal field. Her collection of poems, red silk slippers, was published by Circaidy Gregory Press in 2009. Her poems have been published in And Other Poems, Culture Matters, The Blue Nib, and The North.[PSR 38]
EDWIN FRANK was born in Boulder, Colorado and studied at Harvard College and Columbia University. He has lived in New York since 1988 where he edits the "Classics"-series for The New York Review of Books. He is the author of two small books of poetry, The Further Adventures of Pinocchio (Lo Specchio d'Arte, 2004) and Stack (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006).[PSR 17]
JANE FRANK is based in Brisbane, Australia, where she lectures in Cultural Studies and Creative Writing at Griffith University. Her chapbook Milky Way of Words was published by Ginninderra Press in 2016, and a collaborative work of poetry – Flotsam (with Scottish poet Hugh McMillan) – is forthcoming with Flarestack Poets in 2018. Palgrave Macmillan is publishing her monograph Regenerating Regional Culture: A Study of the International Book Town Movement in November 2017. [PSR 31]
ADELE FRASER lives in the mountains of Snowdonia, Wales. Her poems have been published in Envoi, The Interpreter's House, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Obsessed with Pipework, and Mslexia. [PSR 31]
ELISE CARNEY FRAZIER studies English Literature and History in Trinity College, Dublin. She spent the last few months at the University of Salzburg. She recently had her first publication in Trinity College Dublin's Icarus magazine.[PSR 40]
LEWIS FREEDMAN is the author of Residual Synonyms for the Name of God (2016) and I Want Something Other Than Time (2021; both Ugly Duckling Presse) as well as many chapbooks of poetry, including Am Perhaps Yet (Oxeye, 2018). In addition, he has authored several experiments on the form of the book including Solitude: The Complete Games (Troll Thread, 2013), a collaboration with Kevin Rydberg that will take several years for your computer to read, and the book within a book, Hold the Blue Orb, Baby (Well-Greased Press, 2013), which interleaves notebook facsimiles with poems on the practice of notebooking.[PSR 39]
ULLI FREER. Born in Lunenburg, Germany. Studiedat Hornsey College of Art and the Open University. He works as artist,performer, writer and erstwhile publisher, active since the late 1960s.His work is published widely in magazines and book publications includeBlvd.s (Equipage, 1994), Eyeline (Spanner, 1996), SpeakbrightLeap Passwood: Selected and New Poems (Salt, 2003). Works in anthologiesinclude - the new british poetry (Paladin, 1988), Other: Britishand Irish Poetry since 1970 (Wesleyan UP, 1999), Vanishing Points:New Modernist Poems (Salt, 2004). He has performed his work in theUK, Austria, France, Poland, Ukraine and the U.S.A. 2002-4 lead a poetryworkshop at Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck College, Universityof London.[PSR 9]
AMBER FRENCH grew up in Waitakaruru (Hauraki, Aotearoa New Zea-land), and lives in Auckland. She is a library worker, new poet, and previous student in Massey University's Master of Creative Writing programme. She has a BA/BFA (Hons) from the University of Auckland.[PSR 39]
MICHAEL FREY is a doctor of medicine and an associate professor atAlbert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in New York City. His recent publicationsinclude poetry and short stories in Blotter, Samsara, WestWard Quarterly, Illogical Muse,Always Looking, Foliate Oak, and Chantarelle's Notebook.[PSR 12]
CHRISTOPHE FRICKER is the German translator of a number of best-selling and highly-acclaimed authors, including Guardian columnist Owen Jones, science writer Hugh Aldersey-Williams, American poet Joshua Mehigan and Atlas of Prejudice internet sensation Yanko Tsvetkov. He teaches translation at the University of Bristol. His work also includes two volumes of poetry (Das schöne Auge des Betrachters and Meet Your Party) and 111 Gründe, England zu lieben. [PSR 16][PSR 36]
MATTHEW JAMES FRIDAY is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at Goldsmith College, London. He has had poems published in Dreamcatcher, Envoi, Ink, Sweat & Tears, The Journal, Orbis, Pulsar Poetry, South Bank Poetry Magazine, and Writing Magazine. [PSR 31]
PHILIP FRIED has published eight books of poetry, the most recently Among the Gliesians (2020) and Squaring the Circle (2017, both Salmon Poetry). He has recently published work in Poetry, Poet Lore, The Warwick Review, The Poetry Review, The Notre Dame Review, Literal Latte, and Plume. He has 26 poems in Four American Poets, a British anthology edited by Anthony Costello and published by The High Window Press in 2016. Carol Rumens twice selected his work for the "Poem of the Week" feature in The Guardian and chose one of those poems, "Yoga for Leaders and Others", for her new anthology Smart Devices: 52 Poems from The Guardian "Poem of the Week". In addition to writing poetry, he is the founding editor of The Manhattan Review (1980-present). [PSR 32][PSR 37]
LEAH FRITZ has had three volumes of her poetry published in the U.K. since moving there from New York in 1985: From Cookie to Witch Is an Old Story (1987), Somewhere en Route (1992), and The Way to Go (1999, all Loxwood Stoneleigh). In the United States she was mainly known for her essays and journalism, which culminated in two non-fiction books about American politics in the 1960s and 1970s. In Britain, her poetry and other writings have appeared in The Guardian, Acumen, Ambit, PN Review, and Poetry Review. [PSR 1] [PSR 9]
DU FU (also known in English as Tu Fu) lived from 712-770 at the height of the Tang dynasty in China. He is considered by many to be the greatest poet in Chinese literature. Du Fu's poetry was highly formal in style and directly personal in content. His work is filled with his concerns about his country, family, friends, and his own failures and tribulations. "Spring View" and "Grieving the Defeat at Green Slope" both describe events from the long civil war that beset China during Du Fu's later years. [PSR 11]
GRAHAM FULTON is a Scottish writer and performer. He has had 26 full-length collections produced by publishers including Polygon, Red Squirrel Press, Smokestack Books, Salmon Poetry, and Pindrop Press, among them Continue (Penniless Press, 2015), Photographing Ghosts (Roncadora Press, 2014), One Day in the Life of Jimmy Denisovich (Smokestack Books, 2014), Reclaimed Land (The Grimsay Press, 2013), Full Scottish Breakfast (Red Squirrel Press, 2011), Open Plan (Smokestack Books, 2011), Knights of the Lower Floors (1994), and Humouring the Iron Bar Man (1990; both Polygon).His most recent book is Angry at the Stars: Selected Poems 1986-2022 (Rymour Books, 2023).[PSR 27][PSR 41]
JO FURBER has recently completed an MPhil on Peter Redgrove's poetry at University of Wales, Swansea. She has workedas the Dylan Thomas Project Officer at Swansea's Dylan Thomas Centre for the last five years. [PSR 7]
DEAN FURBISH is a retired college biology professor, living in Raleigh, North Carolina. His poetry and translations have appeared in Chiron Review, Conduit, Metamorphosis, Poetry East, Poetry New York, Ponder Review, Quarterly West, Regarding Arts & Letters, Reunion Two Thirds North, and Xavier Review. [PSR 36]
JULIE FUSTER (b.1988) is a French poet and writer, currently living in Bristol, UK. Graduated in Philosophy and Art History. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions in Iceland (2015) and Denmark (2017). Her latest poetry collection was published in French in 2015 (Plus la neige tombe sur le ciment, éditions Mains-Soleil, Alès). [PSR 32]