ROSIE JACKSON lives in rural Somerset, writes, paints, and runs workshops. Her poetry has been published in Acumen, Ambit, The Interpreter's House, and Tears in the Fence. Poetry Salzburg published her pamphlet What the Ground Holds in September 2014. In 2016 Cultured Llama published her first collection The Light Box and Unthank Books her memoir The Glass Mother. She is a Hawthornden Fellow 2017. [PSR 24] [PSR 26] [PSR 28] [PSR 30] [PSR 33]
SIMON JACKSON, born in Manchester, worked as an itinerant musician and teacherin Eastern Europe, North Africa and South America during the 1990s and now lives in Edinburgh. Reflections of Moonlightwon the British Gas Young Playwright Award, Frankenstein, the Monster's Story for Theatre of Fire toured Britain, Ireland, and Belgium. His latest play, Shooting at the Balcony, is currently being produced for BBC Radio 4. [PSR 16]
W. D. JACKSON's four books – Boccaccio in Florence and Other Poems, Afterwords, Opus 1 and Opus 3 – and two pamphlets are all parts of his work-in-progress, Then and Now, on the subject of the individual and his or her place in history. His most recent book is Opus 1 (2023). Opus 3 (both Shoestring Press), was one of Frederic Raphael’s TLS Books of the Year (2019). A pamphlet, Aesopean, with woodcuts by Alan Dixon, was published by Shoestring in November 2022. He lives in Munich. [PSR 30] [PSR 34] [PSR 39] [PSR 41]
NICOLAS JACOBS was born in 1942 and for many years taught mediaeval English at Jesus College, Oxford. By origin a Wessex man, he now lives in North Wales. He has published on Old and Middle English and Mediaeval Welsh literature and on the theory and practice of textual criticism. [PSR 29]
HARRIET JAE grew up in Scotland and now lives in Ghent, Belgium. Her poems and translations have been published in Poetry Wales, Stand, The Rialto, Mslexia, Modern Poetry in Translation, and Acumen. She was awarded the 2021-22 Poetry School scholarship for a poet with a disability. [PSR 38]
NICHOLAS JAGGER is a poet and artist who lives in Yorkshire. His artwork includes painting and sculpture which, like his poetry, draws on historical and mythic subjects. His first book of poetry, Zarathustra, was published by Agenda Editions in 2010.His poetry has also been published in Agenda, Stand, and The Warwick Review, and a group of his translations from Horace, Ovid, Petrarch, and Paz appeared in the journal Translation and Literature in 2008. [PSR 19]
CATHERINE JAGOE is a translator, poet and essayist. Her more recent books include Bloodroot (Settlement House, 2016), which won three poetry awards, and two bilingual volumes by Uruguayan poets: Reborn in Ink by Laura Cesarco Eglin (Word Works, 2019), and Voice & Shadow: New & Selected Poems by Luis Bravo (Lavender Ink Press, 2020), co-translated with Jesse Lee Kercheval. She won a Pushcart Prize in 2016. [PSR 40]
DONA JALUFKA was born in Houston, Texas, USA, where she studied Fine Arts, Photography, and Graphic Design at the University of Houston. In 1990 she moved to Vienna, Austria, where she continues to pursue her art and has had multiple art exhibits in Europe and the USA. Her poetry has appeared in Möbius, Peregrine, and Poetry Salzburg Review. [PSR 17] [PSR 34]
CHRISTOPHER M. JAMES is a British/French poet, born in 1952. He has a degree in Philosophy & English and a Masters in Applied Linguistics (Kent). A former HR professional, he has lived and worked in France, Italy and Thailand, and currently in the Périgord, France. He has published three books in French, notably on personal development, and since retirement has devoted himself to writing poetry in English. Recent poems have appeared in Aesthetica, Magma, Orbis, London Grip, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Dream Catcher, French Literary Review, and Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021. [PSR 39]
DOMINIC JAMES lives in the South West England and attends poetry meetings along the Thames River Valley. His collection, Pilgrim Station, was published by SPM Publications in 2016. [PSR 36]
After earning a Bachelor's degree in Communication Arts from California Lutheran University, MARC JANSSEN has worked as a copywriter for the world's largest tool catalog company. In 1998, he relocated to Oregon. He coordinates the Salem Poetry Project and Salem Poetry Festival. His poetry has appeared in Penumbra, Slant, Cirque Journal, and Off the Coast. [PSR 37]
JERZY JARNIEWICZ is a poet, translator, and literary critic. He is the author of ninecritical books and eleven volumes of verse. The latest are Oranżada ("Orangeade"; 2005), Makijaż ("Make-up"; 2009),and Na dzień dzisiejszy i na chwilę obecną ("Today and at this moment in time"; 2012). He is a professor of English Literature at the University of Łódż and has for many years been associated with Literatura na świecie("Literature and the World"), Poland's most important journal of translation. [PSR 25]
NIGEL JARRETT is a journalist, poet andshort-story writer. In 1995, he won Rhys Davies Memorial Prize for contemporary short fiction; his winning entry Mrs Kuroda on Penyfan, has twice been broadcast by the BBC. His work has appeared in many internationaljournals. Since the 1980s, he has been music critic of the South Wales Argus. [PSR 3]
MARIA JASTRZĘBSKA was born in Warsaw, Poland and came to England as a child. She now lives in Brighton. She has published three full-length collections: Syrena (Redbeck Press, 2004), Everday Angels (2009), andAt the Library of Memories (2013; both Waterloo Press). She co-translated Elsewhere by Iztok Osojnik with AnaJelnikar (Pighog Press, 2011). Her literary drama Dementia Diaries toured nationally in 2011 with Lewes Live Literature. [PSR 24]
KEITH JEBB's last two publications were tonnes (2008) and hide white space (2006), both from Kater Murr's Press. He runs the Creative Writing course at the University of Bedfordshire,is editor of Divergence, a new online journal of innovative writing and text-art, and is co-organizer ofthe Blue Bus poetry reading series in London. [PSR 7] [PSR 10] [PSR 16]
PAUL JEFFCUTT lives in the Brontë Country of County Down, near the Mountains of Mourne. Latch (Lagan Press, 2010), his debut collection, was selected as The Book of the Month (July 2011) by the Ulster Tatler. His poetry has appeared in Abridged, Aesthetica, Crannóg, The Frogmore Papers, The Honest Ulsterman, Ink, Sweat & Tears, The Interpreter’s House, Magma, Obsessed with Pipework, Orbis, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, and Vallum. In 2018 he was invited to read in the Scottish Poetry Library at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. His work has been featured four times on BBC Radio. [PSR 35]
HONORÉE FANONNE JEFFERS is the author of four books of poetry, most recently The Glory Gets (Wesleyan UP, 2015). Her poetry and stories have appeared in American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, and Poetry. She has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation through the Library of Congress. A native southerner, she now lives on the prairie, where she teaches at University of Oklahoma. [PSR 29]
SARITA JENAMANI was born in Cuttack, Orissa and studied Economics and Management Studies in India and Austria. She writes in English, Hindi as well as in her mother tongue, Odia. She has published four books of poetry, most recently Till the Next Wave Comes (Dhauli Books, 2019). She translated Rose Ausländer from German into Hindi under a scholarship received by The Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Chancellery of Austria. She received many literary fellowships in Germany and in Austria (Heinrich Böll Foundation, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen). In 2006, she was awarded the literary prize of Kulturverein Inzing, Austria. She is a member of Austrian chapter of PEN international, lives and works in Vienna. She is the co-editor and publisher of the bilingual magazine Words and Worlds. [PSR 34]
ALAN JENKINS was born in 1955 and has lived for most of his life in London. Apart from Marine (Enitharmon Press, 2015) his collections of poetry include, most recently, Paper-Money Lyrics (Grey Suit Editions, 2014), Revenants (Clutag Press, 2013), and A Shorter Life (Chatto & Windus, 2005). He is Deputy Editor and Poetry Editor of the Times Literary Supplement and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. [PSR 29]
MIKE JENKINS (born 1953) is a Welsh poet, story writer, and novelist. He has publishedmany books of poetry in Wales, including Red Landscapes (Seren, 1999). He won the Wales Book of the Year Award in1998, an Eric Gregory Award, Welsh Arts Council Young Writers' Prize, and the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry.Jenkins edited Poetry Wales for 5 years and has co-edited Red Poets for 21 years.[PSR 26][PSR 28]
PHILIP JENKINS lives in Cardiff, Wales. His publications include The Fantasy ChildhoodReset (Second Aeon, 1971), The Birth of Venus (Transgravity, 1973), A Sailor's Suit and Cap(Joe di Maggio, 1976), On the Beach with Eugène Boudin (Transgravity, 1978), Cairo (Books 1 & 2:Editions Grand Hôtel de Palme à Palerme, 1981; Book 3: Shearsman 63/64 (April 2005)), Travels with Kandy(Rigmarole, 1982), Lost Toys (Burnt Alaska, 1998), The Annotated Edition (Baked Alaska, 2009),and Eskimos at Two O' Clock (Fell Swoop, 2009).[PSR 10][PSR 17]
MARTIN JERVIS lives in Leeds, England. His poetry has been published inthe UK, the United States, Canada and Australia. He spends part of the year in India and has writtena series of poems with an Indian theme. [PSR 8] [PSR 11]
CAROLYN JESS-COOKE's poetry has been published in Magma, Poetry London,Poetry Review, The SHOp, The Stinging Fly, and others. Her international bestselling prosehas been translated into 22 languages. [PSR 25]
ANTONY JOHAE has published three collections: Poems of the East (Gipping Press, 2015), After-Images: Homage to Éric Rohmer (Poetry Salzburg, 2019), and Ex-Changes (The High Window, 2020). He divides his time between Lebanon (his wife's country of origin) and the UK. Lines on Lebanon , from which the poems in this issue have been drawn, is in preparation. [PSR 18] [PSR 20] [PSR 23] [PSR 24] [PSR 25] [PSR 29] [PSR 32] [PSR 38]
ROLAND JOHN was born in South London. After travelling widely in Europe and the Middle East he returned to the UK and founded the Hippopotamus Press, a small poetry publishing house. His A Beginner's Guide to The Cantos of Ezra Pound was published by the University of Salzburg Press in 1995. His latest poetry collection is A Lament for England and Other Poems (bluechrome, 2005). [PSR 27] [PSR 36]
TERENCE JOHN lives in Scotland. His poems have been published in Acumen, Orbis, Southlight, The London Magazine, The North, Glasgow Review of Books, Poetry Review, Stand Magazine, and The Nonconformist. [PSR 36]
ADAM JOHNSON (1965-1993). Born in Stalybridge,Cheshire. Moved to London in 1984. Worked for the BBC, a theater booking agency, and a reference book publisher. Died in 1993 from an AIDS-relatedvirus. Poems (Hearing Eye, 1992), The Spiral Staircase (Acumen,1993), The Playground Bell (Carcanet, 1994). Forthcoming: CollectedPoems (Carcanet, May 2003).[PSR 4]
JENNIFER JOHNSON. Born in Bakht-er-Ruda,Sudan. Came to England as a child. Has worked as an agriculturalist inZambia. Now a publications assistant at the History of Parliament Trust.Poems in Stand, Rialto, Interpreter's House,Other Poetry, The Journal, The New Writer, The Yellow Crane, Pulsar, and others.[PSR 6]
JENNY JOHNSON was born in 1945 in Bristol, England. She was a "war babe", her father being an American naval officerand her mother an Anglo-Russian Jew. She was adopted and educated at The Red Maids' School, Bristol - the oldest girls' school in the country. Hermain books are The Wisdom Tree (Collected Poems 1975-1993, University of Salzburg Press, 1993), Neptune's Daughters (Expansions Unlimited,1999), and and Selected Poems: Revised & New (Brimstone Press, 2013). Recent work has been published in The Journal, Orbis, Poetry Salzburg Review, Sarasvati, and Stand. She is also a circle dance choreographer and a Reiki therapist. She lives in Nottingham.[PSR 3][PSR 5][PSR 7] [PSR 30] [PSR 32] [PSR 34]
KRIS JOHNSON is from America's Washington state but has lived in the UK since 2007. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Newcastle University and in 2019 was awarded a Developing Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council England. Her poems have appeared in Ambit, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Northwest, and Poetry London. Her debut pamphlet, Skinny Dip, was published in 2022 by Enchiridion. Ghost River is her first book-length collection (Bloodaxe Books, 2023). [PSR 40]
WILL JOHNSON has published poems in Agenda, Magma, Poetry Wales, and The SHOp, and a pamphlet (forthcoming) from Eyewear Publishing. He has also published six India-related books (as W. J. Johnson), including two verse translations from the Sanskrit in the Oxford World’s Classics series. He was founder-editor of the Cardiff University electronic journal, Asian Literature and Translation. [PSR 32]
FRED JOHNSTON was born in Belfast in 1951 and lives in Galway. He is a novelist, short story writer, dramatist, and poet. In 1972 he received a Hennessy Literary Award for prose. In the mid-1970s he, along with Neil Jordan and Peter Sheridan,founded the Irish Writers' Co-operative, based in Dublin. In 1986 he founded Galway city's annual Cúirt International Festival of Literature and in 2002, the Western Writers' Centre in Galway, Ireland. In 2004 he was appointed writer in residence to the Princess Grace Irish Library in Monaco. His work has appeared in The Edinburgh Review, The Financial Times, The Irish Times, The London Magazine, The Spectator, Stand, andThe Sunday Times. His most recent collection of poems is Rogue States (Salmon, 2018). [PSR 4] [PSR 27] [PSR 38]
BRIAN JOHNSTONE is a poet, writer and performer. He has published six collections, most recently Dry Stone Work (Arc, 2014). He is the founder and former Director of StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival. [PSR 30]
JIM JOHNSTONE is a Canadian poet, editor, and critic. He is the author of six books of poetry including Infinity Network (Signal Editions, 2022), and is the editor of The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry (Palimpsest Press, 2018) In 2016, he was awarded POETRY's Editors Prize for Book Reviewing. [PSR 39]
DEDWYDD JONES is a Welsh playwright, novelistand journalist. He has been writing for over thirty years and has produceda large body of work. His many plays range from the epic to the monologue,from satires to apocalyptic romps to historical dramas and domestic tragedies. [PSR 7]
DOUG JONES is 34 years old and has lived in east London since 1991. Currently studying under Clive Bush at KingsCollege London, doing a post graduate research project on the poet Bill Griffiths. His poems are heavily influenced by Griffiths and the late BobCobbing, also the group gathered around Writers Forum, which published Jones's bluegreen-grey. [PSR 4]
EVAN JONES was born in Toronto, Canada, and now lives in Manchester, England, where he has recently completed a PhD at the University of Manchester. His poems and translations have appeared in various journals, including Poetry Review, PN Review, Poetry Wales, Stand, Agenda, The SHOp, and The Wolf. His first collection Nothing Fell Today But Rain was published in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside in 2003. [PSR 17] Born in England,
JONATHAN JONES has lived and worked in Belgium since 1997. His D-I-Y publishing outfit roue des archives, based in Brussels, started issuing material earlier this year (https://rouedesarchives.blogspot. com).
PETER BEN JONES was born in Hampstead, London, read Science and Philosophy at King's College, London University. An Information Science career (medical research, nuclear power) coincides
with his poetry output. The Blue, the Leaning-Down Blue was publishedby Poetry Salzburg in 1995. Prizes include The New York Avant Garde Award,Scottish National Open, and Iolaire Chapbook Award.
He now lives in Welshpool, Wales.
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Originally from Bradford in West Yorkshire, TERRY JONES studied Literature at UniversityCollege of Wales, Aberystwyth. He received a post-graduate qualification in teaching at Manchester University.
Afterwards he worked in the construction industries in Germany and Greece. He has since taught access and degreecourses at Carlisle College. He is married, with three grown-up daughters, and lives on the Cumbrian borders.
His poetry has appeared in many UK magazines and newspapers, including Agenda, Envoi, Iota,Obsessed with Pipework, Poetry Review, The Dark Horse, The London Magazine,
The Observer, and The Rialto. Poetry Salzburg published his pamphlet Furious Resonance in 2011.
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NORMAN JOPE was born in 1960 in Plymouth, where he currently lives and works as an administrator at the University College Plymouth St Mark & St John. Editor, Memes, 1989-94.
Collections include For the Wedding Guest(Stride, 1997), The Book of Bells and Candles (Waterloo, 2009), Dreams of the Caucasus (Shearsman, 2010), and Aphinar (Waterloo, 2012).
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ANDREW JORDAN lives in Southampton (UK). Edits 10th Muse magazine. Poems published in Angel Exhaust, Oasis, PN Review, Shearsman, and Stand.
His most recent collection of poems is Ha Ha (Shearsman, 2007).
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L. B. JØRGENSEN, born 1978 in Denmark, has a degree in English Literature from Aalborg University and works in translation.
She lives in Denmark but recently travelled in Asia for a year. When at home she works as a subtitler. She has had poems published in The North, Orbis, and Under the Radar.
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PIERRE JORIS has moved between Europe, the US & North Africa for over half a century now, publishing more than 60 books of poetry,
essays, translations & anthologies – most recently, a translation of Egyptian poet Safaa Fathy’s Revolution Goes Through Walls (SplitLevel, 2018), The Book of
U /Le livre des cormorans (poems; with Nicole Peyrafitte, 2017); The Agony of I.B.; An American Suite (early poems; inpatient press, 2016); Barzakh: Poems 2000-2012
(Black Widow Press, 2014); Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry of Paul Celan (FSG, 2014); A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly
(Contra Mundum Press, 2014) & The University of California Book of North African Literature (volume 4 in the Poems for the Millennium series, coedited with Habib Tengour, 2012).
[PSR 33] ANTHONY JOSEPH was born in Trinidad, moving to the UK in 1989. His publications include Teragaton(Poison Engine Press, 1997), the novel The African Origins of UFOs (2006), and Bird Head Son (2009; both Salt).He lectures in Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is an AHRC scholar and doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths College. He lives in London.[PSR 21] TREVOR JOYCE co-founded New Writers' Press with Michael Smith in Dublin. He moved to Corkin 1984, where, under the short-lived imprint Melmoth Press, he published Brian Coffey's last volume of poetry. He stilllives in Cork, where for many years he worked as a systems analyst for Apple Computer. Eight earlier books of poetry,along with much new material, were collected in the 2001 volume with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold (NWP/Shearsman).His most recent collections are What's in Store (NWP/The Gig, 2007), a gathering of new work since 2001, andCourts of Air and Earth (Shearsman, 2008), which contains all his translations from Middle and Early-Modern Irish.He co-founded SoundEye Festival in 1997, and has been a director of the festival since then. He is a member of Aosdána.[PSR 15] GARY JUDE comes from London and for the last seven years has been living in Switzerland.He works as a freelance Photoshop retoucher and English teacher. He has previously had poems published inAcumen, The Wolf, Iota, White Leaf Review, and Orbis.[PSR 19] JENNIFER JUNEAU's poems and fiction haveappeared in Seattle Review, Poetry International, OutsiderInk, and Writers' Journal. Currently, she is studying EnglishLanguage, Literature and Linguistics at the University of Zurich.[PSR 7]