DAVID HACKBRIDGE JOHNSON is primarily a composer; his first two volumes are Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 (2017) and Vol. 2 (2018, both Toccata Classics). He maintains a busy teaching practice in addition to writing, composing, and performing as a jazz pianist and violinist. “Hairstyles of the Tyrants: A Short History” is his first published poem. [PSR 33]
MARILYN HACKER was born in New York City in 1942. She is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, most recently Essays on Departure: New and Selected Poems 1980-2005 (Carcanet, 2006), Names: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2009), and A Stranger’s Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994-2014 (W. W. Norton, 2015). She also translated Venus Khoury-Ghata’s poetry, Alphabets of Sand (Carcanet, 2009). She was editor of The Kenyon Review (1990-1994) and has received numerous honours, including the American PEN Voelcker Award (2010), the American PEN Award for Poetry in Translation (2009), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature (2004), the Poets’ Prize (1996), and the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets (1995). She lives in Paris. [PSR 33]
JEN HADFIELD spent the summer of 2002 inShetland and Skye finishing the manuscript of her first collection Lorelei'sLore, thanks to a bursary from the Scottish Arts Council. She is currently working as a picture-framer. [PSR 5]
The Persian lyric poet HAFIZ was born around1320 in Shiraz, Iran and died there around 1390. Shams Al-Din Muhammadacquired the name Hafiz through memorizing the whole of the Qur'anat an early age. His love lyrics (ghazals) are acclaimed as thefinest ever written in Persian. He has also written other forms of poetry of which samples are translated here. His poetry survives in his Divan/ Diwan (collected poems). It inspired Goethe's Westöstlicher Diwan (1819). [PSR 3]
MIRIAM HALAHMY has published fiction for adults and two poetry collections. Her cycle of three young adult novels has been taken by Meadowside Books.The first title, Hidden, will be published in March 2011. She runs writing workshops and is a member of the Highgate Poetry Society. [PSR 8] [PSR 12] [PSR 16] [PSR 17]
Born in Scotland, DAVID HALE now lives in Gloucestershire, and works at a land andcraft-based college for students with learning differences. His work has been published in Agenda, The Interpreter's House, Other Poetry, Seam, The SHOp, Smiths Knoll, andWarwick Review. In 2012 his pamphlet The Last Walking Stick Factory appeared from HappenStance Press. [PSR 26]
CATHERINE HALES lives in Berlin, where she works as a translator. Her books of poetry includehazard or fall (Shearsman, 2010) and a bestiary of so[nne][r]ts (Oystercatcher Press, 2010) and translations of German poetNorbert Hummelt in Berlin Fresco (Shearsman, 2010). Her poems have been translated into German and Czech.She is co-ordinator of Poetry Hearings, Berlin's festival of poetry in English. [PSR 14] [PSR 16] [PSR 20]
JUNE HALL, a former book editor with Faber and Faber, lives and works in Bath. Her work was published in, among others, Acumen, Agenda, Equinox, French Literary Review,and Interpreter's House. She has two published collections from Belgrave Press: the now of snow (2004)and bowing to winter (2010). [PSR 19]
ALYSON HALLETT was brought up in Street, Somerset, and currently lives in Falmouth, Cornwall.Her first collection of poems is The Stone Library (Peterloo Poets, 2007). Her latest book is Six Days in Iceland(Dropstone Press, 2011), which arose from a field trip to Iceland as part of a year-long poetry residency with the Universityof Exeter's Geography Department. [PSR 13] [PSR 14] [PSR 22] [PSR 23]
IAIN HALLIDAY was born in Scotland but now lives in Sicily where he teaches and researches English language andtranslation at the University of Catania. His translations from Italianinto English include: Giovanni Verga's A Mortal Sin [Una peccatrice] (Quartet, 1995); Claudio Magris's Microcosms (Harvill, 1999); Valerio Manfredi's Alexander (Macmillan, 2001-2002); Pierluigi Collina's The Rules of the Game (Macmillan, 2003). [PSR 6]
MICHAEL HALLS researched and taught English Literature in Cambridge and for many years was the Archivist of King's College's large collection of modern literary and scientific manuscripts. He founded a charity for the support of rural LGBT people in the South West of England, which he ran for over twenty years before retirement. He really must get round to seeing if either of his novels might find a publisher. [PSR 37]
ROBERT HAMBERGER's poetry has been broadcast on Radio 4, featured as a Guardian Poem of the Week, and has appeared in The Observer, The Spectator, New Statesman, Gay Times, Ambit, Poetry London, The Rialto, The London Magazine, The Poetry Review, Stand, The North, Magma, and Agenda. His fourth collection, Blue Wallpaper, as published by Waterloo Press in 2019. His memoir A Length of Road: Finding Myself in the Footsteps of John Clare was published by John Murray in summer 2021. [PSR 38]
MICHAEL HAMBURGER was born in Berlinin 1924 to a German-Jewish family that emigrated to England in 1933. Heserved as an infantryman from 1943-47 and read Modern Languages at Oxford. After an academic career in England and America, he settled in Suffolk.He has won many prizes and awards for his translations, including the Schlegel-Tieckprize three times, and has translated - among others - from Baudelaire, Celan, Hölderlin and Enzensberger. His acclaimed critical study TheTruth of Poetry (Penguin) was published in 1969. His Collected Poems(Anvil, 1995), drawing on some twenty earlier books, has been followed by four more, most recently Wild and Wounded (Anvil, 2004). In 2004 Anvil Press also reissued his Hölderlin: Poems and Fragmentsand Peter Huchel: The Garden of Theophrastus. He died in 2007. [PSR 9]
MARK B. HAMILTON is an American poet, editor, and retired academic. His poetryincreasingly centers upon the environment, especially along the Lewis and Clark Expedition route, 1803-1806.Previous titles include: Confronting the Basilisk (Ball State, 1994) and Earth Songs (U of West Florida, 1993). [PSR 26]
Since graduating from the University of East Anglia in Norwich in 1989 SHEILA HAMILTONhas lived in Hungary and Scotland and has three children. Her first pamphlet is entitled The Monster in the Rose Garden(Flarestack, 2001). She has had poems published in The Rialto and Poetry London, among others. Poetry Salzburg published her first collection, Corridors of Babel, in 2007. [PSR 3] [PSR 5] [PSR 13]
CHRISTINE HAMM is a PhD candidate in English Literature and teaches English at CUNY.She won the MiPoesias Chapbook Competition with her manuscript, Children Having Trouble with Meat.Her poetry has been published in Failbetter, Pebble Lake Review, Women's Studies Quarterly,Lodestar Quarterly, Blue Earth Review, Rattle, and many others. Two collections:The Transparent Dinner (Mayapple Press, 2006) and Saints & Cannibals (Plain View Press, 2010).[PSR 20]
ROBERT HAMPSON is Professor of Modern Literature in the English Department at Royal Holloway, where he ispart of the Poetics Research Group and teaches on the MA in Poetic Practice. He has been actively involved in poetry – as poet, editor,critic and facilitator – since the early 1970s. He co-edited (with Peter Barry) New British Poetries: The Scope of the Possible(Manchester UP, 1993) and (with Will Montgomery) Frank O'Hara Now (Liverpool UP, 2010), and (with Ken Edwards) Clasp: Late Modernist Poetry in London in the 1970s (Shearsman, 2016), and and Allen Fisher (Shearsman, 2020), co-edited with cris cheek. His most recent poetry publications are a new edition of Seaport (Shearsman, 2009), an explanation of colours (Veer, 2010), Reworked Disasters (ksf, 2012), and (with Robert Sheppard) Liverpool (Hugs &) Kisses (ship of fools / pushtika, 2015). [PSR 21] [PSR 31] [PSR 35]
STUART HANDYSIDES lives in south east England. His poems have appeared in Acumen, Dream Catcher, The French Literary Review, The Frogmore Papers, London Grip, The North, Pennine Platform, Presence, and South. His play Gleaming for an Instant was performed online in 2020. He has run the Ware Poets competition since 2013. [PSR 35] [PSR 40]
KERRY HARDIE has published five collections and a Selected Poems (2011) withthe Gallery Press in Ireland. The Selected Poems was also published by Bloodaxe in the UK. Her work has been included in the Penguin Book of Irish Poetry and in both editions of The Wake Forest Book of Irish Women's Poetry. [PSR 22] [PSR 26]
J. SCOTT HARDIN is an analyst for a health management company in Phoenix, Arizona.He graduated from San Jose State University in Modern European History before studying and teaching asa Doctoral Fellow at Tulane University and the Freie Universität Berlin. His poetry recently debuted in The Café Review. [PSR 19]
EMMA HARDING is 28 and lives in London,where she is a radio producer for the BBC. Her poems have previously been published in Acumen, Orbis, Mslexia and Iota. [PSR 7]
DANIEL HARDISTY was born in Bradford in 1978. He studied English and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His poems have appeared in New Welsh Review, Poetry Ireland Review,Poetry London, The Rialto, The SHop, Smiths Knoll, The Spectator, and elsewhere. [PSR 25]
OZ HARDWICK is a writer, photographer, music journalist, and occasional musician, based in York (UK). He is also Professor of English at Leeds Trinity University, and has written extensively on misericords and animal iconography in the Middle Ages under the pseudonym of Paul Hardwick. The House of Ghosts and Mirrors (Valley Press, 2017) is his sixth poetry collection. [PSR 32]
ALAN HARDY is a director of an English language school for foreign students.He had poems published in Envoi, Iota, Orbis, Poetry Monthly, Poetry Nottingham,and The Interpreter's House. Poetry pamphlets: I Went with Her (Poetry Monthly Press, 2007) and Wasted Leaves (Aramby, 1996).[PSR 10][PSR 17][PSR 21][PSR 26]
BARBARA HARDY was born in Swansea and educated at Swansea and University College London. She is an Emeritus Professor at Birkbeck, University of London, and Hon. Professor of English at University of Swansea.She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy. She specializes in the work of Jane Austen,Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, George Eliot, Shakespeare, Thackeray, and Dylan Thomas. Poetry collections: London Lovers(Peter Owen, 1996, Sagittarius Prize), Severn Bridge: New and Selected Poems (Shoestring Press, 2001),The Yellow Carpet (Shoestring Press, 2006), and Dante's Ghost (Paekakariki Press, 2013). [PSR 25]
CHRIS HARDY lives in Sussex and has travelled widely. He is in LiTTLe MACHiNe www.little-machine.com performing settings of well known poems. His poems have been published in Acumen, Stand, The North, The Rialto, and Poetry Review. His latest collection is Key to the Highway (Shoestring Press, 2021). He won the Live Canon and the National Poetry Society competition. [PSR 32] [PSR 37] [PSR 41]
DANIEL Y. HARRIS is Adjunct Professor of Holocaustand Genocide Studies in the Department of Sociology at Sonoma State University. He has been Poetry Editor of the Internet literary journal Muse Apprentice Guild.His chapbook, Unio Mystica, will be published by Cross-Cultural Communications in 2007.His recent publication credits include The Pedestal Magazine, Exquisite Corpse,Convergence, The Denver Quarterly, Panoply, and Shampoo. The Jewish Community Library of San Francisco, Market Street Gallery, The Euphrat Museum and The Center for Visual Arts are among his art exhibition credits. [PSR 11]
LYDIA HARRIS has made her home in the Orkney island of Westray. Her first full collection, Objects for Private Devotion, was published by Pindrop in 2022. [PSR 41]
WILLIAM WRIGHT HARRIS is a student at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, where he has studied poetry in workshop settings. His poetry has appeared in literary journals such as The Cannon's Mouth,Ascent Aspirations, generations, and Write On!. [PSR 22]
DAVID HARSENT has published twelve volumes of poetry. Legion won the Forward Prize. Night (2011) won the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Fire Songs (2014) won the T. S. Eliot Prize. A new collection, Loss, appeared in January 2020 (all Faber & Faber) and was The Guardian's Poetry Book of the Month. A Broken Man in Flower, his versions of the poems written by Yannis Ritsos while in prison camps and under house arrest, will be published by Bloodaxe in March 2023. He has collaborated with several composers, though most often with Harrison Birtwistle. Birtwistle/Harsent collaborations have been performed at major venues worldwide, including the Royal Opera House, the Salzburg Festival, the Concertgebouw and Carnegie Hall. He holds a number of fellowships, including Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Fellow of the Hellenic Authors Society. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Roehampton. [PSR 39]
MARC HARSHMAN's collection of poems, Woman in a Red Anorak (Lynx House/University of Washington Press, 2018) won the 2017 Blue Lynx Prize. His fourteenth children's book, Falling Water, co-written with Anna Smucker, was published by Roaring Brook/Macmillan in 2017. His poetry collection, Believe What You Can (West Virginia University, 2016), won the Weatherford Award from the Appalachian Studies Association. He is the seventh Poet Laureate of West Virginia. [PSR 25] [PSR 33]
JIM HART was raised in Brooklyn where he still resides. In the New York City Sanitation Department he served as Deputy Director of Public Affairs and Director of Correspondence for the Sanitation Police for thirty years. Recently his work as appeared in Pulsar Poetry Magazine,The Blind Man's Rainbow, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Red Owl Magazine, and Iconoclast. [PSR 13]
LIBBY HART was born in 1971. Her first collection of poetry,Fresh News from the Arctic (Interactive Press, 2006), received the Anne Elder Award and was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Prize. She lives in Melbourne, Australia. [PSR 7] [PSR 17]
DEBORAH HARVEY is co-director of The Leaping Word poetry consultancy. She has published four poetry collections – The Shadow Factory (2019), Breadcrumbs (2016), Map Reading for Beginners (2014), and Communion (2011) – and her fifth, Learning Finity, is forthcoming in late 2021 (all Indigo Dreams). Her historical novel, Dart (2013), appeared under the Tamar Books imprint. Her poems have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4's "Poetry Please". She won the 2018 Plough Prize Short Poem Competition. [PSR 37]
JAMES HARVEY (1966-2012) lived in London. After leaving school, he studied with the Open University,and then went to University College London to study Biology. After leaving university, he took up poetry full time, with Ecologyinspiring much of his poetry. His publications are the one-poem book Mackerelling (Intercapillary Editions, 2009), the epamphletParts Composers (Openned, 2009), the broadsheet From Marx's Capital (Kater Murr's Press, 2009), and the chapbook Temporary Structures (Veer, 2009). He died from complications of liver cancer on 28 June 2012. [PSR 3] [PSR 6] [PSR 10]
ROGER HARVEY is a poet, novelist and radio writerborn in 1953 and living in the North of England. His published novels include Percy the Pigeon (1987), The Silver Spitfire (1991) and A Woman Who Lives by the Sea (all Ulverscroft, 1992). Poetry collections: Northman's Prayer (Soundings, 1988), Raising the Titanic (Plowman, 1994), and Divided Attention (Grevatt & Grevatt, 1998). His plays Guinevere-Jennifer and Money! Money! Money! have been on tour in England andhis screenplay of Guinevere-Jennifer was filmed. His latest book Poet on the Road(Bluechrome, 2006) is the intimate travelogue of his U.S. tour. [PSR 11]
SIOBHAN HARVEY is a writer, reviewer and lecturer based in New Zealand.She is the author of two collections of poetry, and her work has appeared in magazines and anthologies in New Zealand, Australia, US, UK and Europe. She currently lectures and tutors Creative Writing atThe University of Auckland. [PSR 12]
SUZANNE R. HARVEY lectured for 19 years in the English Department atStanford University in California. Upon retirement, she taught at Emeritus College in the San Francisco Bay Area for 7 years. Her poetry has appeared in Nth Position, Ascent Aspirations Magazine, SpeedPoets,and Concho River Review. [PSR 12] [PSR 14]
LEE HARWOOD, born 1939, lives by the seain Brighton & Hove. A now redundant Post Office worker. Relatively recent books of poems - Morning Light (Slow Dancer Press, 1998); In the Mists: Mountain Poems (Slow Dancer Press, 1993); Rope Boy tothe Rescue (North and South, 1988); Crossing the Frozen River: SelectedPoems (Paladin, 1988). [PSR 2]
ALAMGIR HASHMI is Pakistan's premier English-language poet.He has been writing poetry for the last forty years. Equally well-known as author of several scholarly books, he has been Professor of English and Comparative Literature in Pakistan,Europe and the United States. [PSR 11]
EMILY HASLER was born in Felixstowe, Suffolk, UK in 1985. She studied English and Creative Writing at the University of Warwick where she completed an MA in Pan-Romanticism. This is her first publication in an international literary magazine. [PSR 15]
MATT HAW is a poet, critic, librettist, and gardener. He was the recipient of anEric Gregory Award in 2013 for Saint-Paul-de-Mausole, a book-length sequence after the life and work of Van Gogh. [PSR 23] [PSR 25] [PSR 26]
RALPH HAWKINS's work has been published in the anthologies A Various Art (Carcanet, 1987) and The New British Poetry (Paladin 1988). His books include The MOON, The Chief Hairdresser (highlights) (2004), Gone to Marzipan (2009), and It Looks Like an Island But Sails Away (2015) – all by Shearsman Books. In the early 2000’s he worked in collaboration with Bob Cobbing on a series of image and word based texts published by Writers Forum. The most recent publications to include his work are The Edge of Necessity: An Anthology of Welsh Innovative Poetry 1966 – 2018 (Aquiver Press, 2018) and leaf o little leaf (Oystercatcher 2019). Some of his recent image based work can be found online at Mollybloom and Stride Magazine. [PSR 35]
OLI HAZZARD was born in Bristol in 1986. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming inPN Review, Horizon Review, The Forward Book of Poetry 2010, The Best British Poetry 2011,The Salt Book of Younger Poets, and New Poetries V (Carcanet, 2011). He graduated with a First inEnglish from University College London in 2008, and is currently a graduate student at the University of Bristol.[PSR 20]
RANDOLPH HEALY (born 1956 in Scotland) studied Mathematical Sciences atTrinity College, Dublin. Beau Press published 25 Poems, edited by Maurice Scully, in 1983.The pamphlet Envelopes was published in 1996 by Cambridge Poetical Histories. He has published work inThe Beau Magazine, Gargara, Angel Exhaust, West Coast Line, and The Poet's Voice.He runs Wild Honey Press.[PSR 15] p>After 25 years as a psychotherapist, ANN HEATHCOTE was ensnared by poetry in 2015 and has been writing on a serious basis since. Her first poems were published in the anthologies Gazing at Gaia (Manchester Buddhist Centre, 2017) and Watch the Birdie (Beautiful Dragons Press, 2018). [PSR 35]
BOB HEFFERNAN lives in Cork with his wife Marie and is currently studying toward a PhD in Mathematics.[PSR 15]
MICHAEL HELLER, born in 1937, is an American poet, essayist and critic. He is recognized as a leading expert on Objectivist poets, poetry, and poetics.Among his many books are Accidental Center (Sumac Press, 1972), Knowledge (Sun Books, 1979), In the Builded Place (Coffee House Press, 1989), Wordflow (Talisman House, 1997),and Exigent Futures (Salt, 2003). His most recent collection is Eschaton (Talisman House, 2009). He wrote the libretto for the opera Benjamin, based on the life of Walter Benjamin. [PSR 17] [PSR 35]
GUDRID HELMSDAL was born in Torshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, in 1941. She became the first Faroese woman to publish a volume of poetry written in the Faroese language when her book, Lytt lot, appeared in 1963. Her debut collection’s uncanny precision of image, and shift to a more personal poetics, signaled a modernist breakthrough in Faroese literature. [PSR 30]
AMANDA HEMPEL was born in Stockholm, Sweden, and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she currently lives.Her poetry appeared in several places, including Regarding Arts and Letters, Fogged Clarity, Quantum Poetry Magazine, The Mochila Review,Arsenic Lobster Poetry Journal, and Zouch Magazine & Miscellany. She received her MFA in Creative Writing at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and servesas Poetry Editor for Flywheel Magazine.[PSR 21]
BARBARA HENNING is the author of three novels and nine books of poetry, her mostrecent are two collections of poetry and prose, A Swift Passage (Quale Press, 2013) and Cities & Memory(Chax Press, 2010), a novel, Thirty Miles to Rosebud (BlazeVox, 2009), and a collection of object-sonnets,My Autobiography (United Artists, 2007). Born in Detroit in 1948, she has lived in New York City since 1983.She teaches for Naropa University and Long Island University in Brooklyn where she is Professor Emerita.[PSR 27]
PAUL HENRY was born in Aberystwyth in 1959 and currently lives in Gwent.In 1989 he received an Eric Gregory Award. He is the author of six collections of verse, the most recentof which is Ingrid's Husband (Seren, 2007). He has guest-edited Poetry Wales and is a popularCreative Writing tutor. He currently presents the Inspired series of arts programmes for BBC Radio Wales.[PSR 13]
GEOFFREY HEPTONSTALL is a poetry reviewer for The London Magazine where some of his poetry has appeared. A number of stories published and short plays performed and/or broadcast, including Radio 3.Essays and reviews published, including the TLS. He is the author of the novel Heaven’s Invention (Black Wolf, 2017) and two poetry collections, The Rites of Paradise (2020) and Sappho’s Moon (2021, both Cyberwit). [PSR 26] [PSR 39]
RAMONA HERDMAN lives in Norwich. She has an MA in Creative Writing: Poetry from the University of East Anglia and was one of the Poetry Trust’s ‘Aldeburgh Eight’ in 2011. Her pamphlet, Bottle, was published by HappenStance Press in 2017 (Poetry Book Society Spring 2018 Pamphlet Choice) and is one of The Poetry School’s ‘Books of the Year 2017’. It won the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Prize 2017. [PSR 32]
DENNIS HERRELL is from Houston. His poems were recently published in Atlanta Review, Aurorean, Blue Unicorn, Bogg, Boston Poetry Magazine, Pearl, Pennine Ink, and Poet Lore. [PSR 27]
D. G. HERRING's poems have appeared in South Poetry Magazine, Dreich and Nangle's The Occasional Poetry Magazine. His chapbook, The Sheliand, was published in March 2023 by Dithering Chaps. [PSR 41]
AMY MARIE HESS is 23 years old and lives in the smallest town of West Virginia.Her poetry has appeared recently in The Taj Mahal Review, Down in the Dirt, and Feelings of the Heart. [PSR 13]
SEÁN HEWITT was born in 1990 and studied English at Girton College, Cambridge. He is now doing an MA in Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool. [PSR 26]
ROLAND H. HEYDER was born in 1956 in Singen, Germany. Since 1983 he has worked as a freelance artist. His work was exhibited in many places in Europe and the USA. His work, which was initially influenced by Salvador Dalí and the Fantastic Realists, reflects his great love for expressive autonomy and showsa lot of attention to detail. Heyder currently lives and works on the Canary Island Tenerife. [PSR 14] [PSR 27] [PSR 29] [PSR 33]
BARBARA HICKSON lives in Lancaster and is in her final year of study for an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poems have appeared in The Dawntreader, Poetrybay, Stravaig, and Zoomorphic, and in 2016 she was a prize winner in the Magma Editors’ Choice competition. She is a member of Brewery Poets (Kendal) and acts as rep for the Poetry Society’s Lancaster Stanza group. [PSR 32]
RITA ANN HIGGINS published her first five collections of poetry with Salmon Poetry.In 2010 Salmon published Hurting God (part essay, part rhyme). Bloodaxe published her next four, includingThrow in the Vowels: New and Selected Poems (2005) which was reissued in 2010 with audio CD, andin 2011 a new collection of poetry Ireland is Changing Mother.[PSR 22] [PSR 24]
GRAHAM HIGH is a poet, painter and sculptor based in South East London.He also works as a sculptor/effects designer for the film industry and is currently working on theforthcoming Dark Materials trilogy based on the Philip Pullman novels. He edits Blithe Spirit,the Journal of the British Haiku Society, and runs a small poetry publishing outfit, RAM Publications.His latest collection of poetry, Wolf on the Third Floor (New Hope International, 2000),contains poetry written in Russia where he lived for some time.[PSR 3][PSR 4][PSR 5][PSR 9][PSR 11][PSR 15]
LEONORE HILDEBRANDT is a native of Germany, who moved to the USA in the wake ofthe back-to-the-land movement. She lives "off the grid" on the rugged coast of easternmost Maine. She teaches writingat the University of Maine and also serves as an editor for the Beloit Poetry Journal.[PSR 17][PSR 19]
ROWENA HILL was born in England in 1938. Since 1974 she has lived in Venezuela, where she taught English Literature at the Universidad de Los Andes in Mérida.She has published four books of poems (in Spanish), as well as poems, essays and translations in periodicals in Venezuela, Colombia, India and USA. She has translated into English someof Venezuela's best known poets; her bilingual anthology of Venezuelan women poets, Perfiles de la Noche / Profiles of Night, was published by bid@co, Caracas, in 2006.[PSR 17]
JEFF HILSON teaches Creative Writing at Roehampton University. His most recentbook is stretchers (Reality Street Editions, 2006). The poems in this issue are part of a longer sequence called "Birds birds", selections of which can be found online in Robert Sheppard's Pages and in issue 4 of onedit as well as in print in Skald 24 (2007). Editor of The Contemporary Free Verse Sonnet (RSE, 2006). [PSR 2] [PSR 12]
JEREMY HILTON was born near Manchester in 1945. He took degrees in English and Social Work. Between 1972 and 1998 he worked in various social work posts. He has published twelve collections, most recentlySlipstream (Ripostes, 2003) and Lighting Up Time: Selected Poems 1991-2004 (Troubadour, 2006). Since 1995he has edited the poetry magazine Fire. [PSR 12] [PSR 13]
DANIEL HINDS won the Poetry Society's Timothy Corsellis Young Critics Prize. His poetry has been published in The London Magazine, The New European, Wild Court, Stand, The Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021, Blackbox Manifold, The Honest Ulsterman, New Contrast, and Southword. He was commissioned by New Creatives, a talent development scheme supported by Arts Council England and BBC Arts and delivered by Tyneside Cinema, to produce an audio piece based on his poetic sequence The Stone Men of Newcastle. [PSR 39]
NORBERT HIRSCHHORN is an Austrian-born public health physician. For his work in oral rehydration therapy, he was commended by President Bill Clinton as an “American Health Hero” in 1993. His first pamphlet, Renewal Soup, and his first full collection, A Cracked River, were published by Slow Dancer (London) in 1996 and 1999. Two pamphlets followed resulting from competitions: The Empress of Certain (Poet’s Corner, 2005) and Sailing with the Pleiades (Main Street Rag, 2007). A fourth pamphlet, The Terrible Crystal, was published in 2008 by Hearing Eye. His second and third collections, Mourning in the Presence of a Corpse and Monastery of the Moon, appeared in 2008 and 2012 from Dar al-Jadeed, Beirut, Lebanon. Two further collections, To Sing Away the Darkest Days – Poems Re-imagined from Yiddish Folksongs (2013), and Stone. Bread. Salt (2018) were published by Holland Park (London). His poems have appeared in Acumen, Agenda, Dream Catcher, Magma, Modern Poetry in Translation, PN Review, Poetry (Chicago), and Salmagundi. He lives in London. [PSR 29] [PSR 33]
JACK HIRSCHMAN is the Poet-in-Residence with the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. He has published more than 100 books of poetryincluding some 60 of them as translations of poets from eight languages. His major work is The Arcanes, published in the American language by Multimedia Edizioniin Salerno, Italy in 2006. He lives in San Francisco where he has served as the 4th Poet Laureate of that city.[PSR 18]
DENIS HIRSON was born in 1951, and lived in South Africa until the age of 22. He is a graduate of the Universityof the Witwatersrand, where he studied Social Anthropolgy, and the University of East Anglia, where he obtained a Doctorate in Creative Writing.Since 1975 he has lived in France, and teaches at the École Polytechnique. He has published seven books, all of them concerned with the memoryof the apartheid years in South Africa, all of them crossing the frontier between prose and poetry: The House Next Door to Africa (David Philip, 1986), I Remember King Kong (the Boxer) (2005), White Scars (2006), We Walk Straight So You Better Get Out the Way (2007),and Gardening in the Dark (2007; all Jacana). [PSR 22]
LYNNE HJELMGAARD grew up in New York City and is presently based in London. Her first book, Manhattan Sonnets, was published by Redbeck in 2003. [PSR 3] [PSR 10]
CHARLES HOBDAY is the author of Edgell Rickword: A Poet at War (Carcanet, 1989)and A Golden Ring: English Poets in Florence from 1373 to the Present Day (Peter Owen, 1998), and the editor of The Collected Poems of Edgell Rickword (Carcanet, 1991). He published four collections of poems, notably How Goes the Enemy? Selected Poems 1960-2000 (Mammon Press, 2000). His long dramatic poem, Elegy for a Sergeant (Lapwing, 2002), was his final collection. He died in London on 2 March 2005. [PSR 1] [PSR 12]
JENNY HOCKEY trained as an anthropologist and still takes an oblique view of the ups and downs of everyday lives, her own included. In 2013 she received a New Poets Bursary Award from New Writing North, Newcastle. In 2019 she launched her debut collection, Going to Bed with the Moon, published by Oversteps Books. [PSR 37]
GORDON HODGEON (1941-2016) was born in North-West England. He read English at Durham Universityand worked as teacher and lecturer in English before becoming a schools advisor in the North-East. Retirement gave himtime to work on the development of the Teesside-based Mudfog Press. Main publications: Talking to the Dead(Smokestack, 2015), Old Workings (Mudfog Press, 2013), Still Life (2012), and Winter Breaks (2006; both Smokestack). He died in late July 2016.[PSR 28] [PSR 30]
HANNAH HODGSON has had poetry published in Acumen, The North, and Under the Radar. Her first poetry pamphlet Dear Body (Wayleave Press, 2018) explores her life limiting chronic illnesses and disability. She also has a YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/c/HannahHodgson) where she discusses poetry, fiction, and illness. [PSR 32]
WENDY HOLBOROW's poems have appeared in magazines such as Agenda, Envoi,and Poetry Ireland Review. She has recently completed a poetry mentorship with Literature Wales and is startingan MA in Creative Writing at Swansea University in September.[PSR 25]
FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN (1770–1843) was a German poet and philosopher. Born in Lauffen am Neckar, he attended the Tübinger Stift, where he was friends with Hegel and Schelling. He graduated in 1793 but could not devote himself to the Christian faith, instead becoming a tutor. Two years later, he briefly attended the University of Jena, where he interacted with Fichte and Novalis, before resuming his career as a tutor. He struggled to establish himself as a poet, and was plagued by mental illness. He was sent to a clinic in 1805 but deemed incurable and instead given lodging by a carpenter, Ernst Zimmer. He spent the final 36 years of his life in Zimmer’s residence, and died in 1843 at the age of 73. He translated all his writing life. Through translation he reached a poetic language of his own, so that much of his best poetry reads like a translation from elsewhere. He was intensely occupied with Sophocles in the winter of 1803-04. His versions of Oedipus Rex and Antigone came out in 1804. He translated in a radical and idiosyncratic way, cleaving close to the Greek yet at the same time striving to interpret these ancient, foreign and – as he thought – sacred originals, and so bring them home into the modern day and age. [PSR 33]
JODIE HOLLANDER, a poet and teacher originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was raised in a family of classical musicians. She currently resides in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and the rare, wild cassowary.[PSR 19]
PAUL HOLMAN is the author of The Fabulist(1991) and The Memory of the Drift (2000). He was co-editor of InvisibleBooks in the 1990s. The poems printed here are part of a larger ongoingproject made for the Field Study group.[PSR 4]
NIGEL HOLT has lived and worked in the United Arab Emirates for a number of years. He has been most recently publishedin The Raintown Review, The Recusant, and Snakeskin. He is the editor of The Shit Creek Review.[PSR 18]
KEITH HOLYOAK, born in 1950, was raised on a dairy farm in British Columbia, Canada. He is a poet and translator of classical Chinese poetry,as well as a Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His poems and translations have been published in The London Magazine,Envoi, Measure, Poetry NZ, and Two Lines. Facing the Moon: Poems of Li Bai and Du Fu (2007) was published by Oyster River Press, and hisspoken-word CDs are available through Broken Electric Records.[PSR 11][PSR 17]
RIC HOOL's recent publications include A Way of Falling Upwards (Cinnamon Press, 2014)and Selected Poems (Red Squirrel Press, 2013). He has organized the poetry reading series Upstairs atthe Hen & Chicks in Abergavenny for the past 21 years. He is from Northumberland but lives in Wales.[PSR 14][PSR 27]
JEREMY HOOKER's most recent books are Selected Poems 1965-2018 and Art of Seeing: Essays on Poetry, Landscape Painting and Photography (both Shearsman, 2020). His features for BBC Radio 3 include A Map of David Jones. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, and Professor Emeritus of the University of South Wales. [PSR 40] [PSR 41]
DANIELLE HOPE was born in Lancashire and now lives in London. She has had five books of poetry and one book of translated work published: Last Walk of Giovanni Pascoli: A dual language edition (English and Italian, 2018), Mrs Uomo's Yearbook (2016), Giraffe under a Grey Sky (2011), The Stone Ship (2004), City Fox (2004), andFairground of Madness (1992; all Rockingham Press). She took over as main editor of Acumen from issue 101 (May 2021). [PSR 12] [PSR 24] [PSR 28] [PSR 30] [PSR 41]
PENNY HOPE is a teacher and translator currently based in Berlin. Her poems and translations have appeared in Acumen, ARTEMISpoetry, Envoi, Iota, Mslexia, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Shearsman, Tears in the Fence, and Urthona. She has taken part in poetry residencies at the Red House Garden in Bexleyheath and Christchurch Greyfriars Garden in London. [PSR 39]
QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS (8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known as Horace, fought on the wrong side at the Battle of Philippi but was later befriended by Maecenas, Augustus's chief minister, and prospered under Augustus. He wrote many different types of poems in a variety of metres on a variety of topics. His Odes are remarkable for their elegance and their emotional detachment. [PSR 37]
JOSEPH HORGAN was born in England of Irish parents and now resides back in Ireland. In 2004 he was the winner of the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award. Published among others in Prop, Agenda,Southword, The SHOp, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Ireland Review, Fortnight, and The Sunday Tribune. Slipping Letters Beneath the Sea (Doghouse, 2008) is his first collection. He also writes a weekly column for The Irish Post. [PSR 15]
KATHERINE HORREX is currently an MA student at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing. Her poems have appeared in Morning Star, Poetry London, and The Times Literary Supplement. [PSR 29]
D. A. HOSEK's poetry has appeared in Meniscus, California Quarterly, Rat's Ass Review, and I-70 Review. He earned his MFA from the University of Tampa. He lives and writes in Oak Park, IL and spends his days as an insignificant cog in the machinery of corporate America. He was the editor of Serif: The Magazine of Type & Typography. [PSR 40]
TIMOTHY HOUGHTON's The Internal Distance (Selected Poems 1989-2012) appeared in a bilingual (Italian/English) edition from the Italian press Hebenon/Mimesis Edizioni (Milan) in 2015. The book was presented in Florence at the Museo Casa di Dante. He has worked at Yaddo, MacDowell, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and Hawthornden Castle. His recent book is Where the Lighthouse Begins (Salmon Poetry, 2020). His poems have been published in Chelsea, Malahat Review, Quarterly West, SNReview, and Stand.He is a field trip coordinator for Audubon. [PSR 29] [PSR 40]
ANDREW HOUWEN is a translator of Dutch and Japanese poetry and a JSPS post-doctoral fellow at Tokyo Woman’s Christian University. His translations, with Nihei Chikako, of Naka TarU+014D have so far been published in Shearsman and Modern Poetry in Translation and collected in Music: Selected Poems published by Isobar Press in July 2018. [PSR 33]
MATTHEW HOWARD is 32 years old and lives in Norwich. He works as a fundraiser for the RSPB. He recently completed a poetry MA at Manchester Metropolitan University. His poems were published in The Rialto, Magma,and The North. [PSR 20]
SEAN HOWARD is the author of six collections of poetry in Canada, most recently Trinity: Tribute Sequences for Robert Graves (2022) and Unrecovered: 9/11 Poems, Then as Now (2021, both Gaspereau Press). His work has been featured in The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English (Tightrope Books, 2017). He is adjunct professor of political science at Cape Breton University, and contributes a monthly "War & Peace" essay to The Cape Breton Spectator. [PSR 40] [PSR 41]
FANNY HOWE (born 1940 in Buffalo, NY) is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose. Her recent collections of poetry include The Lyrics (2007), On the Ground (2004, both Graywolf), Gone (2003), Selected Poems (2000, both U of California P), and Forged (Post Apollo, 1999). She has lectured in Creative Writing at Tufts University, Emerson College, Columbia University, Yale University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [PSR 15]
WENDY A. HOWE is an English teacher and free-lance writer who lives in Southern California. Her poetry has been published in Ariadne's Thread, The Tower Journal, Strange Horizons, The Interpreter's House, Goblin Fruit, and Yellow Medicine Review. Her work has been featured in several themed anthologies exploring myth, nature and dementia including Anna M. Evans's Forgetting Home: Poems About Alzheimer's (Bare Foot Muse Press, 2014). Most recently, her poem "Imani", featured in Coffin Bell Journal, has been nominated for the Best of the Net anthology (2020). [PSR 37]
ANTHONY HOWELL is a poet and novelist whose first collection of poems, Inside the Castle,was brought out in 1969. In 1986 his novel In the Company of Others was published by Marion Boyars. In 1997 he was short-listed for a Paul Hamlyn Award for his poetry. His latest book of poems is Silent Highway (Anvil, 2014). His versions of the poems of Henri Alain-Fournier were published by Carcanet in December 2016, and From Inside by The High Window in March 2017.[PSR 20] [PSR 30]
BAI HUA (born in 1956 in Chongqing) read English literature at Guangzhou Foreign Language Institute before graduating witha Master's degree in Western Literary History from Sichuan University. His first collection of poems, Expression (1988), found immediate critical acclaim. After a silence of more than a decade, he began writing poetry again in 2007. That same year, his work garnered the prestigious Rougang Poetry Award. A prolific writer of critical prose and hybrid texts, Bai Hua is also a recipient of the Anne Kao Poetry Prize.Currently living in Chengdu, Sichuan, he is a professor at the Southwestern Transportation University. He is considered the central literary figure of the post-Misty Poetry movement during the 1980s and is next to Bei Dao, the most influential poet in contemporary China. [PSR 19]
KATHY HUBBARD was born in Manchester and has been living in Shetland for over thirty years. Formerly Head of Development at Shetland Arts, she has been director of the agency's annual Film Festival, Screenplay, for thirteen years, a festival she co-curates along with Mark Kermode and Professor Linda Ruth Williams. [PSR 39]
TOM HUBBARD took his Ph.D. at AberdeenUniversity and qualified as a librarian at Strathclyde University. In 1984 he became librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library. He has taught Scottish, European and American literatures and cultures at US, mainland European, and Scottish universities. His articles, essays, reviews and poems have appeared in a wide range of magazines and books in Scotland and mainland Europe. He is currently editor of the Bibliography of Scottish Literaturein Translation (BOSLIT). His publications include Four Fife Poets(Aberdeen UP, 1988); The New Makars (ed., Mercat Press, 1991); Seeking Mr. Hyde (Peter Lang, 1995); The Integrative Vision: Poetry and the Visual Arts in Baudelaire, Rilke and MacDiarmid (1995). [PSR 4]
RICARDA HUCH (1864-1947) was the leading German woman writer of her time. Her first novel, Reminiscences of Ludolf Ursleu the Younger (1893), anticipated Buddenbrooks in showing the decline of a mercantile family, like her own. As a historian she wrote at length on Romanticism, Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, the Thirty Years' War, the 1848 Revolution, and the Holy Roman Empire (a work the Nazis partly suppressed); shorter works on Confalonieri, Wallenstein, Luther, and Bakunin; and portraits of seventy German-speaking towns and cities. She wrote novels such as The Last Summer and The Deruga Case, and religious works, stories, and poetry. She had seven Nobel nominations. She was the first woman to receive the Goethe Prize, in 1931, and the only woman writer elected to the literary senate of the Prussian Academy of Arts, from which she resigned in 1933, defying the call for total subservience and denouncing the Nazis' brutal methods, slanders, and antisemitism as 'un-German'. She remained in Germany and was in Jena when the town was bombed. In 1947 she presided at the all-German Writers' Congress in Frankfurt am Main. Autumn Fire (1944) is virtually her last work. She had published three volumes of verse fifty years earlier. Poetry Salzburg is going to publish Autumn Fire later this year and launch the Poetry Salzburg Translation Series (PSTS) with it. [PSR 41]
ROSALIND HUDIS lives near Tregaron in West Wales. She has co-edited The Lampeter Reviewand is currently completing an MA in Creative and Script Writing at Trinity Saint David, Lampeter. Her pamphlet Terra Ignota was published by Rack Press in 2013 and her first full-length collection, Tilt, has just been published by Cinnamon. Her work has appeared in Agenda, Envoi, The Interpreters House, Magma, Poetry London, Poetry Review, and Stand Magazine. [PSR 26]
A. J. HUFFMAN is a poet and freelance writer in Daytona Beach, Florida. She has previously publishedfour collections of poetry: The Difference between Shadows and Stars (2011), Carrying Yesterday (2011),Cognitive Distortion (2011), and ... And Other Such Nonsense (2012; all CreateSpace). [PSR 23]
GLYN HUGHES is the author of 6 volumes of verse, 6 novels, plus autobiographies and 5 radio plays.Latest volumes of verse are Life Class (Shoestring, 2009) and Dancing out of the Dark Side (Shoestring, 2005).He is a past winner of the Guardian Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Whitbread and the James Tait Black prizes.He lives in the North of England. [PSR 19]
MICHAEL HULSE has translated more than sixty books from the German, among them works by W. G. Sebald,Nobel Prize winners Elfriede Jelinek and Herta Müller, Goethe and Rilke. He is a judge of the Günter Grass Foundation's biennialinternational literary award. His most recent collection of poetry is The Secret History (Arc, 2009) and his latestpublication the anthology The Twentieth Century in Poetry (Ebury, 2011), co-edited with Simon Rae.[PSR 22]
NORBERT HUMMELT was born in Neuss, Germany, in 1962 and lives in Berlin. His most recentbooks of poetry, all from Luchterhand, are Zeichen im Schnee [Signs in the Snow] (2001), Stille Quellen[Silent Springs] (2004), and Totentanz [Dance of Death] 2007. He has taught at the German Literature Institutein Leipzig and until 2007 was editor of the Lyrik 2000 edition series. He has co-translated and edited a new editionof the poetry of W. B. Yeats and translated T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets and The Waste Land into German.[PSR 16]
RAYMOND HUMPHREYS. Born in 1947 in Londonof Welsh family. Lived in Wales since 1972. Numerous magazine publications:Staple, Outposts, Gaelach Lan, Westwords, Odyssey,Panurge; non-fiction including a series of twenty essays on literarybiography published in Writers' Monthly and a regular review columnin Cambrensis. Books: Family Walks Around Swansea (Scarthin,1993), The Time Traveller (Porto Franco, 1997), Nietzsche's Children(Geneze, 1998), and Living Words (Porto Franco, 1998).[PSR 5]
JOSEPH HUTCHISON, Colorado Poet Laureate (2014-2018), has published 20 collections, most recently Under Sleep's New Moon (2021); The World As Is: New & Selected Poems, 1972-2015 (2016, both ?NYQ Books); and a collection of longer narrative poems, Marked Men (Turning Point Books, 2013). His poems have appeared in New York Quarterly, Adirondack Review, Naugatuck River Review, and Pedestal. He lives in the mountains southwest of Denver. [PSR 24] [PSR 32] [PSR 40]
KEITH HUTSON lives in Halifax, West Yorkshire. He has had poetry published in Butcher’s Dog, The North, The Rialto, The Interpreter’s House, and Stand. He delivers poetry and performance workshops for The Prince’s Trust and The Square Chapel Centre for the Arts. He co-edits the on-line journal Hinterland. Poetry Salzburg published his first pamphlet, Routines, in autumn 2016.He has an MA (Poetry) from Manchester Metropolitan University. His second pamphlet, Troupers (Smith|Doorstop, 2018), was followed by his first book-length collection, Baldwin's Catholic Geese, published by Bloodaxe in 2019. His second Bloodaxe collection will be published in 2021. [PSR 29] [PSR 31] [PSR 32] [PSR 35] [PSR 36] [PSR 37]
PHILIP HYAMS, born in 1954 in Montreal, Quebec is a Canadian/Israeli novelist,poet, artist, journalist and film producer. His first novel, Canaan Barred, was published in 1995 byTell Books. His poetry has been published in Isibongo Magazine (South Africa), Gravity Magazine,The Art Bin (Sweden), among others.[PSR 14]
SARAH HYMAS lives on Morecambe Bay. Her writing has appeared in single collections,magazines, anthologies, multimedia exhibits, dance videos, lyrics, theatre programmes, pyrotechnical theatre shows,and as an improvised opera. Her collection, Host, was published by Waterloo Press in 2010.[PSR 25]