GRANT TABARD lives in Laindon, Essex. He is the former editor of The Screech Owl and co-founder of Resurgant Press. His latest publications are Loneliness Is the Machine That Drives the World (Platypus Press, 2016), Rosary of Ghosts (Indigo Dreams, 2019), This Is the Carousel Mother Warned You About (Three Drops Press, 2020), and dog (Gatehouse Press, 2020). [PSR 36]
DAVID TAIT’s debut collection Self-Portrait with The Happiness was published by smith|doorstop in 2014. His pamphlet Three Dragon Day (2015) won the Poetry Business Pamphlet Prize. Poems have appeared in Ambit, Magma, Poetry Review, and The Rialto. He received an Eric Gregory Award (2014) and was a Clarissa Luard Poet-in-Residence at The Wordsworth Trust. He lives in Nanjing, China and has a second collection, The AQI, was published in 2018. [PSR 32]
SCOTT TALBOT EVANS is a winner of the 2021 Script Studio & RAFAS present Scriptitude competition and the 2021 GEVA Theater/Writers & Books 2 Pages/2 Voices competition. His worked has appeared in Shoreline of Infinity and Straight on Till Morning. He is currently working on his fifth book, The Special Dogs’ Adventure in Rio. [PSR 39]
KAMIL TANGALYCHEV is an award-winning Russian poet and editor, living in Saransk. The author of 16 books of poetry and essays, he is a regular contributor to <Literary Russia. In 2015, he was conferred the honor People’s Poet of Mordovia. His eight poetry collections include Rowan Bells, 1992 and Verb Flicker, 2019. An ethnic Tatar, Tangalychev draws from the deep roots of Russian historical and literary traditions. His poetry has been translated from Russian into several languages of the peoples of Russia: Moksha, Erzya, and Tatar. The poet draws inspiration from the natural world of his homeland on the Russian steppe. [PSR 36]
HARRIET TARLO wrote her PhD on the modernist poet H.D. She now teaches English and CreativeWriting at the University of Leeds. Her books of poetry include Nab (Etruscan, 2005), Poems 1990-2003(Shearsman, 2004) and LoveLand (REM Press, 2003). She also writes critical and review essays on modernist and contemporary poets. [PSR 11]
NATHANIEL TARN, born Paris 1928, educated Cambridge, Sorbonne, Yale, Chicago, L.S.E. & S.O.A.S (London) is a poet, translator (Neruda, Segalen, etc.), critic, editor (Founding Editor Cape Editions & Cape Goliard, London, the Sixties), anthropologist (Highland Maya, S.E. Asia, etc.), and Professor Emeritus with some 35 books and lesser publications in his various disciplines. Recent are: Selected Poems 1950-2000 (Wesleyan UP, 2002), The Embattled Lyric: Essays & Conversations in Poetics & Anthropology (Stanford UP, 2007), and Ins & Outs of the Forest Rivers (New Directions, 2008). [PSR 17]
ALEC TAYLOR left his native Liverpool to read Classics at Leeds University. He spent his working life teaching Latin and related subjects. Now retired, he and his wife live in Paignton, Devon. His verse has appeared in several poetry journals, in particular in Acumen, which has also published a pamphlet of his shorter poems, Identity Theft, in 2012. Poetry Salzburg published his first collection, Fool If They Weren’t, in September 2021. [PSR 21] [PSR 24] [PSR 35] [PSR 38]
ANDREW TAYLOR is the author of two collections of poetry published by Shearsman Books: Radio Mast Horizon (2013) and March (2017). Recent publications include at first it felt flying (with Charlie Baylis) (Indigo Dreams Pamphlets) which was a Poetry Book Society summer selection 2019 and Lowdeine Chronicles (with Nick Power, erbacce-press, 2019). He is the author of Adrian Henri: A Critical Reading (Greenwich Exchange, 2019). He lives and works in Nottingham where he is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing and English at Nottingham Trent University. [PSR 36]
MARIA TAYLOR’s latest pamphlet Instructions for Making Me came out in 2016 with HappenStance Press. Her first collection, Melanchrini, was published by Nine Arches Press in 2012. She has had poems published in Magma, The North, and The Rialto. She is Reviews Editor for Under the Radar. [PSR 32]
RICK TAYLOR keeps his head down in Canada.His work has appeared in many magazines, among them The Journal, Canadian Literature, The Dalhousie Review and The Malahat Review. The Proximity of Thieves, a chapbook, will be released this year. [PSR 6]
ROSAMUND TAYLOR won The London Magazine Poetry Prize in 2020 and the Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry in 2017. Her work has recently appeared in Banshee, Channel, Poetry Ireland Review, and on LambdaLiterary.Org. [PSR 37]
SUSAN TAYLOR lives on Dartmoor. Her recent collections are This Given (Paper Dart Press, 2015) and A Small Wave for Your Form (Oversteps Books, 2012). She co-edits the poetry journal The Broadsheet and runs Café Culture, a monthly cabaret of spoken word and music in Totnes. [PSR 28]
TOON TELLEGEN, born in 1941, is one of Holland's best known poets. In 2007 he receivedthree prestigious prizes, two of which were for his entire œuvre. He is a prolific children's book writer and novelist,and his poetic animal stories are extremely popular among both children and adults. The poems printed in this issue are from the collection Raptors [Raafvogels] which will be published by Carcanet in February 2011. [PSR 9] [PSR 14] [PSR 18]
ROELOF TEN NAPELS, born in 1993, is a Dutch poet, novelist and essayist. His most recent collection, Dagen in huis (2022), won the prestigious De Grote Poëzieprijs. The Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant recently called him "the most exciting poet of his generation". The poems translated here are from his second collection, In het vlees (Hollands Diep, 2020). [PSR 39]
SUSAN TEPPER is a poet, fiction writer and essayist, with work appearing in American Letters & Commentary,Salt Hill, Green Mountains Review, Boston Review, New Millennium Writings and many other publications. In 2006, Cervena Barva Presspublished her poetry collection Blue Edge. [PSR 12]
MARK TERRILL shipped out of San Francisco as a merchant seaman to the Far East and beyond, studied and spent time with Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco, and has lived in Germany since 1984, where he has worked as ashipyard welder, road manager for rock bands, cook, and postal worker. His most recent collections of poetry areThe Salvador-Dalai-Lama Express (Main Street Rag, 2009) and Laughing Butcher Berlin Blues (Poetry Salzburg, 2010). [PSR 12] [PSR 17] [PSR 27]
CHRISTINA THATCHER is a part-time teacher and PhD student at Cardiff University where she studies how creative writing can impact the lives of people bereaved by addiction. She is the Poetry Editor for The Cardiff Review. Her poetry and short stories have featured in The London Magazine, Planet Magazine, and The Interpreter’s House. Her first collection, More than You Were, was published by Parthian Books in April 2017. [PSR 32]
CHARLES F. THIELMAN was raised in Charleston, S.C., and Chicago, educated atred-bricked colleges, and on Chicago's streets. He has worked as a youth counselor, truck driver, city bus driver,and enthused bookstore clerk. [PSR 21]
CASSANDRA QUINN THOMAS is a freelance writer whose poems appeared inPen Women Magazine and Riverrun. She holds an MAT in Southwest Studies from Colorado College. [PSR 25]
JAY THOMAS's poems have been published in New Welsh Review, Orbis, Planet, Poetry Wales, and Stand. He has worked as a lecturer and a brewer. [PSR 36]
MICHAEL W. THOMAS is the author of twelve titles, including poetry, novels and short fiction. His collections areGod's Machynlleth and Other Poems (Flarestack, 1996) and Port Winston Mulberry (Littlejohn and Bray, 2010). His latest poetry collection is Under Smoky Light (Offa's Press, 2020). His work has appeared in The Antioch Review, The Black Mountain Review, Critical Survey, Dream Catcher, Irish Studies Review, Irish University Review, Other Poetry, Stand. and Under the Radar. He reviews for the Times Literary Supplement and for a number of years was poet-in-residence at the Robert Frost Poetry Festival, Key West, Florida. A new collection of novellas and short fiction, Sing Ho! Stout Cortez, was published by Black Pear Press in December 2021. [PSR 17] [PSR 19] [PSR 24] [PSR 38]
R. C. THOMAS resides in Plymouth, UK. He graduated with a BA in Creative Writing from Plymouth University, and his poems have been published in Frogpond, Gutter, Modern Haiku, Orbis, Presence, and Tears in the Fence. He was selected as one of the "Top Creative Haiku Authors" in Europe in 2021 and 2022, received joint first place in the Sharpening the Green Pencil Haiku Contest 2022, first place in the Third Maya Lyubenova Haiku Contest, and had a “Selected Haiku Submission” in the 13th Yamadera Basho Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest. He has two poetry collections, The Strangest Thankyou (2012) and Zygote Poems (both Cultured Llama, 2015). Previously, he has edited the poetry journal Symmetry Pebbles, was Creative Writing Editor for Tribe and Thief, and was Managing Editor for the 2015 issue of Plymouth University's creative writing journal INK. [PSR 41]
ROBIN THOMAS completed the MA in Writing Poetry at Kingston University in 2012. He has had poems published in Agenda, Brittle Star, Envoi, Orbis, Paragram, Pennine Platform, The High Window, The Interpreters House, North, Orbis, Poetry Scotland, Pennine Platform, The Rialto, and Stand. His pamphlet, A Fury of Yellow, was published by Eyewear in November 2016. Cinnamon have published two collections of his poetry: Momentary Turmoil (2018) and A Distant Hum (2021). [PSR 31] [PSR 37]
SIÂN THOMAS is poet-in-residence for Ashdown Forest in Sussex, UK. Her pamphlet Ovid's Echo (2012) and collection Ashdown (2020) were both published by Paekakariki Press. She teaches creative writing both online and in Sussex and Kent, presents The Poetry Bath on Wildhart Radio, and is a founder-member of the writers' collective The Muse Agency. [PSR 40]
TONI THOMAS's poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, the minnesota review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Notre Dame Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Poetry East, Gingko Tree Review, Slipstream, and Lake Effect. She lives in Oregon. [PSR 18]
MEL C. THOMPSON is a retired security guard who was born in Los Angeles County, California, and got his BA in Philosophy from Cal State Fullerton. He was the publisher of Blue Beetle Press and Cyborg Productions. [PSR 18]
PAM THOMPSON is based in Leicester and has been published in Magma, Mslexia, The North, The Rialto, and The Interpreter’s House. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from De Montfort University and is one of the organisers of Word!, the longest running spoken-word, open-mic night in the Midlands which takes place at the Y Theatre. Her second collection, Strange Fashion, is forthcoming from Pindrop Press at the end of the year. [PSR 31]
DAVID THORNBRUGH, born in Japan in 1950, is an American poet based in Seattle, Washington.He has lived in Japan, Poland, and South Korea. He works as a freelance editor. [PSR 20]
MICHAEL THORP is an artist and writer, whoin 1987 founded the journal and small press CLOUD. He was born in Malvernin 1961 and now lives in Berwick upon Tweed. He has recently publishedtwo selections of prose poems written over a period of 12 years: PrayerPoems and Ghost Thoughts: or Reasons for Silence, both publishedby Desert Garden Samizdat, Berwick upon Tweed in 2007.[PSR 9][PSR 14]
SCOTT THURSTON lectures at the University of Salford and has publishedwidely on innovative poetry. He is editor of The Radiator, a journal of poetics, and editedThe Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk (Salt, 2007). His most recent book is Momentum (Shearsman, 2008). [PSR 3] [PSR 4] [PSR 5] [PSR 6] [PSR 7] [PSR 9] [PSR 15]
N. ANNE HIGHLANDS TILEY, born 1952 in the USA, is a poet whose work has or will be publishedin Art Times, Abiko, Orbis and elsewhere. [PSR 7]
LEON TITCHE, Professor Emeritus of Literature at Purdue University in West Lafayette,Indiana, USA, has published three books of poetry: Reflections from a Desert Pond (Century Press, 1998), Abishag's Lament (2000), and A Pavilion for the Sun (2001, both Edwin Mellen Press). [PSR 15]
HSIEN MIN TOH read English at Keble College, Oxford, where he was also President of the Oxford University Poetry Society. He has published four collections of poetry, most recently Dans quel sens tombent les feuilles (Paris: Éditions Caractères, 2016). He is the editor of Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. His work has been published in Acumen, Atlanta Review, London Magazine, LondonReview of Books, Oxford Poetry, 91st Meridian, Poetry Ireland Review, Magma, PN Review, Oxford Poetry, and SAND Journal. [PSR 9] [PSR 10] [PSR 12] [PSR 37]
JEANIE TOMANEK was born in 1949 in New York. She began painting full time in 2001 and nowlives in Marietta, Georgia. Her work is in private and public collections throughout the United States and has been used toillustrate many magazines and books. She is also a published poet. The collage elements in the work "My Sister's Keeper" were created by her sister, folk artist, Mary Ann Robinson. [PSR 12]
DAVID TOMS has had work published previously in Trespass, Default, Möbius, and Working Papers in Irish Studies. He has work forthcoming in past simple. He is in the final year ofhis BA at University College, Cork. [PSR 15]
RAYMOND TONG worked for many years for TheBritish Council in South America, India and the Middle East. He has published a number of educational books and a travel book about Nigeria. He has also produced nine collections of poems, the most recent being Crossing theBorder (Hodder & Stoughton), Selected Poems (Robert Hale),and Returning Home (University of Salzburg). [PSR 3]
RICHARD TOOVEY is an architect and translator living in Berlin, where he runs a writing group and assists with the city's 'Poetry Hearings' festival. His poetry has been published in Agenda, Fire, The Frogmore Papers, Iota, Orbis, Smiths Knoll, Staple, and Terrible Work. [PSR 16] [PSR 30]
ANGELA TOPPING writes poetry for both adults and children. She is the author of four solo collections, the most recent being The New Generation (Salt, 2010). In 2011, three chapbooks are out: I Sing of Bricks (Salt), Catching On, an elegiac sequence for Matt Simpson (Rack Press), and The Lightfoot Letters (Erbacce). She also writes critical books and textbooks on literary texts for OUP and Greenwich Exchange. [PSR 20]
ALYSON TORNS graduated from Luton University with a BA in Creative Writing. She has had poems published in Poetry London, The Interpreter's House, Fire, The Wolf, Neon Highwayand Tears in the Fence. Her most recent publication is From the Lost Property Office: A Quartet for Pessoa (Hearing Eye, 2006). She works as a tennis coach in Hertfordshire. [PSR 2] [PSR 6] [PSR 10] [PSR 12] [PSR 16]
CHRIS TORRANCE, b. 1941, Edinburgh, Scotland. Family moved to S. London area in the late 1940s. A failure at school, Torrance left at age 15 to work for a law firm based in Fitzroy Square. At first a wannabe novelist, then a musician, Torrance’s exposure to the burgeoning grassroots publish-ing scene led him to taking up poetry, a vital influence at this stage being his friendship with Lee Harwood. By this time Torrance had left the law for a garden labourer’s job with the Carshalton Parks Department, trans-ferring from the inside to the outside. He moved to Bristol in 1967 & by 1970 was living in South Wales, where he began the work called The Magic Door. Torrance taught Creative Writing evening classes for the UC Cardiff from 1976 to 2001, & is a member of the poetry & music band Headpoets. A collected book of The Magic Door was published in 2017 by Test Centre. [PSR 32]
EDWIN TORRES is the author of 14 poetry collections, including Quanundrum: [i will be your many angled thing] (Roof Books, 2021), The Animal's Perception of Earth (DoubleCross Press, 2020), Xoeteox: the infinite word object (Wave, 2019), Ameriscopia (U of Arizona Press, 2014), and editor of The Body in Language: An Anthology (Counterpath, 2019). His visual text and audio works have been exhibited widely and he has received fellowships from The Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, DIA Foundation, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He has collaborated with artists performing his bodylingo poetics worldwide and has taught his workshop Brainlingo: Writing the Voice of the Body at Columbia University, Naropa University, U-Penn, and The Poetry Project. A native New Yorker, he currently lives in Beacon, NY. [PSR 39]
MARK TOTTERDELL lives in Devon. He returned to poetry in 2010 after many years away from it. Since then his poems have appeared in many magazines including Agenda, Ambit, and Stand.His first collection This Patter of Traces was published by Oversteps Books in 2014. [PSR 27]
GEORGE TOULOUPAS is currently a shoemaker in Piraeus, Greece. He owes much to David Miller's and Robert Lax's guidance and friendship. Together with David Miller he helps run Kater Murr's Press. [PSR 6]
MARION TRACY lives in Brighton, UK. She has had a pamphlet entitled Giant in the Doorway with Happenstance Press (2012) and a first collection, Dreaming of Our Better Selves, with Vanguard Editions (2016). [PSR 33]
GEORG TRAKL (1887-1914), Austrian Expressionist poet. Ludwig von Ficker, editor of Der Brenner, regularly publishedhis poems. Finally achieved success with the decision of Kafka's publisher Kurt Wolff to publish a collection of his poetry in 1913. Drafted into the Austrian army with the arrival of war in August 1914 as a Lieutenant with the Austrian Medical Corps. Assigned to a hospital in Poland in November1914 in the wake of the Battle of Grodek, Trakl found himself required to care single-handedly for some 90 men, a task which broke him emotionally. He committed suicide via a cocaine overdose on 3/4 November 1914. DarkSeasons (Broken Jaw Press 1994; transl. Robin Skelton), Poems andProse (Libris, 2001; transl. Alexander Stillmark), A Profile (Carcanet, 1984, transl. Michael Hamburger). [PSR 4]
DAVIDE TRAME is an Italian author who livesin Venice and teaches English outside the city. His poems have appeared in South, Orbis, Books Ireland, and Flaming Arrow. [PSR 3]
JUNE TRETHEWEY, the daughter of a china-clay worker, was born in the little village of Trethosa in Cornwall. She studied English at Exeter University and then worked as a teacher. [PSR 21]
CLAIRE TRÉVIEN is a twenty-five-year-old PhD student at Warwick University.Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Warwick Review, Nthposition, Pomegranate,The Battered Suitcase, Danse Macabre, and Spilling Ink Review. [PSR 19]
KIM TRIEDMAN is a graduate of Brown University.She has been published in The Aurorean, The New Writer, ByLineMagazine, The Journal, Poetry Monthly, Current Accounts, IF Poetry Journal, and Trespass Magazine. [PSR 14]
JOHN T. TRIGONIS is a graduate of Brooklyn College with an MFA degree in Creative Writing specializing in poetry. Currently, he is teaching Creative Writing courses, and poetry workshops as an adjunct instructor at William Paterson and Fairleigh Dickinson Universities, as well as New Jersey City University. His work has been published in The Main Street Rag, Harpur Palate, Iodine Poetry Journal, The Homestead Review, The California Quarterly,Iota, First Time, Splizz, Barbaric Yawp, The Brooklyn Review, and Soul Fountain. [PSR 18]
PAUL TRISTRAM is a Welsh writer who now lives on the Southern coast of Britain. His poems, short stories, and sketches were published in many publications around the world. [PSR 26]
MARC TRITSMANS (Antwerp, 1959) is a Belgian poet. Up till now he has published fourteen volumes of poetry. In 2011 he was awarded the Herman de Conickprijs (the most important poetry award in Flanders) for Study of the Shadow. In 2019 his twelfth volume The Singing of the World was translated into Afrikaans by Daniel Hugo. From 1994 to 2000 his poems were translated into English by James Brockway which appeared in The London Magazine. It was not until 2019 that John Irons started to translate his poems into English again. Poetry Salzburg is going to publish his collection The singing of the world in late 2024. [PSR 38] [PSR 41]
JULIET TROY is studying Creative Writing at the University of Bedfordshire. She lives in St. Albans. [PSR 14]
STEPHEN TROYANOVICH is a correctional educator, freelance journalist, and editor.His poetry has appeared in many diverse publications including Arabesques Review, Treaders of Starlight,Broken Streets, Blue Unicorn, and The Wormwood Review. He is the author of Dream Dealers and Other Shadows(Triton Press, 1978). [PSR 16]
AMY TRUSSELL's poetry has been publishedextensively in journals such as The Prague Revue, The New OrleansReview, and The 33 Review. Online her work has been publishedin The Electric Acorn, Big Bridge, Nth Position, LiterarySalt, and others. She has performed her dance-poetry in many venues in the USA, including Zeitgeist Theater and Loyola University. Currentlyshe is working on an extended piece of collaborative poetry with A. diMichele, Ungulations. She is also the author, with Donna Kuhn, ofUnexplained Cloth of Dance, a chapbook of poetry and collage (Blue Sushi Press, 2003). [PSR 6]
MARINA TSVETAEVA (1892-1941) is considered one of the greatest twentieth-century Russian poets. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution 1917 a nd the Moscow famine that followed, where her younger daughter died of starvation. She then left Russia in 1922 and lived with her family in increasing poverty in Berlin, Prague and Paris before returning to Russia in 1939. Her husband Sergei Efron and remaining daughter Ariadna Efron were arrested on espionage charges in 1941. Her husband was executed and her daughter imprisoned for a number of years. Increasingly isolated, she committed suicide in Elabuga on 31 August 1941 leaving only her son George who died shortly after, fighting in the Soviet army against the German invasion. [PSR 12] [PSR 36]
KEITH TUMA is the author of Fishing by Obstinate Isles: Modern and ContemporaryBritish Poetry and American Readers (Northwestern UP, 1998) and the editor of Anthology of Twentieth-CenturyBritish and Irish Poetry (Oxford UP, 2001). His essays on British, Irish, American, and Anglophone poetry haveappeared in journals including Chicago Review, Contemporary Literature, Criticism, Modernism/Modernity,The Journal, and American Book Review. His poems and performance texts have appeared in Chicago Review, Notre Dame Review, Open Letter, The Gig, nth position, Flights, andFamous Reporter. [PSR 5] [PSR 15]
GAEL TURNBULL's most recent collections are Transmutations (Shoestring Press, 1997) andMight a Shape of Words (Mariscat Press, 2000). He was born in Edinburgh - in 1928 - where he now lives after many years in England, Canada and the United States. [PSR 3]
ALISON TURNER is the author of The Second Split Between, selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2021 Catamaran Poetry Prize for West Coast Poets. Her poems have appeared in Mid-American Review, Hudson Review, Nimrod, American Journal of Poetry, and Southland Alibi. She lives in Los Angeles. [PSR 41]
ANDREW TURNER is somewhere in his thirties and somewhere in Somerset, UK. He is a care worker and poet. He also teaches and lectures in creative writing. His poems have previously appeared in Envoi, Magma, Poetry Wales, and Two Thirds North. [PSR 30]
SIMON TURNER's work has previously appeared in Tears in the Fence,The Wolf, nthposition, Dusie, and The London Magazine.His collections are You Are Here (Heaventree, 2007) and Difficult Second Album (Nine Arches, 2010).[PSR 16][PSR 19]
PETER TURRINI (born 1944) is an Austrian playwright. Born in Carinthia, Turrini has been writingsince 1971, when his play Rozznjogd premiered at the Volkstheater, Vienna. He is known for his social critical and provocativehomeland plays. A versatile author, he has written plays, screenplays, poems, and essays. His works have been translated into manylanguages and his plays have been performed worldwide. He lives in Vienna and Retz, Lower Austria. Works: Rozznjogd(1971), Sauschlachten (1972), the TV series Alpensaga (1974-79), Minderleister (1988), Bei Einbruch der Dunkelheit (2005).Available in English translation: Shooting Rats, Other Plays and Poems (Ariadne, 1996).[PSR 12]
FRANCIS TURTON was born in Yorkshire in1969 and currently lives in Cambridge, where he works as a technical writerfor a telecommunications software company. His poems have appeared in numerousBritish magazines including The Frogmore Papers, The Rialtoand Other Poetry.[PSR 10]
DONALD L. TUTHILL is a Stanford graduateand taught both English and Humanities at Valencia Community College inOrlando, Florida, for thirteen years, was designated a Senior TeachingFellow, and is now retired. He is also a former Army Staff Sergeant andretired Navy Commander. He has recently brought out his first volume ofpoetry, Waiting for Spring (Watermark, 2003). [PSR 7]
JOHN TUSTIN began writing and submitting poetry a decade ago after a hiatus of just as long. His poetry has appeared in Bete Noire, Chiron Review, Gutter Eloquence, Poetry Quarterly, and Rhino. [PSR 36]
JULIAN TUWIM (1894-1953) was one of the greatpoets of inter-war and post-war Poland. Born in Lódz into an assimilated Polish-Jewish family, he spent the war years in South America and the USA. After the war he returned to communist Poland. He was the author of lyric,erotic and satirical verse, Socrates tanczacy (1919, "Dancing Socrates"),Biblia cyganska (1933, "The Gypsy Bible"), Bal w operze (1946, "TheOpera Ball"), and Kwiaty polskie (1949, "Polish Flowers"). [PSR 10]
IAIN TWIDDY studied English Literature at university and lived for several years in northern Japan. He has published poems in The London Magazine, The Manchester Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Review, and The Stinging Fly. He has written two critical studies of contemporary poetry: Pastoral Elegy in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Cancer Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). He is currently Visiting Professor of English Literature at Kobe College. [PSR 34]
JAMES A. TWIDDY is a retired Christian pastor with six novels, three poetry collections – Crucifix Askew (2017), Mostly Sonnets (2019), and Sidekicks (with David Campiche, 2020) – and one collection of short stories published by Dunecrest Press. His poetry has appeared in The Lyric and Journal of the Society of Classical Poets. He lives in Long Beach, U.S.A. [PSR 37]
PAVLO TYCHYNA (1891-1967) was a major Ukrainian poet. His initial work had strong connections tothe symbolist literary movement, but his style transformed a number of times during his long career and frequently aped theacceptable socialist realism. He survived the terror of the Soviet regime by writing collections of hideous Stalinist doggerel.In later years as the political climate relaxed he was able to rediscover his talent and produce work which was both supremepoetry and acceptable to the regime. His collections include Sonyachni klarnety [Solar Clarinets] (1918), Pluh[The Plough] (1920), Zamist sonetiv i octav [Instead of Sonnets and Octaves] (1920), and Viter z Ukrainy[The Wind from Ukraine] (1924).[PSR 13][PSR 16]
DEBORAH TYLER-BENNETT lives in Loughborough and edits the journal The Coffee House.Her most recent collection is Pavilion (Smokestack, 2010), her first was Clark Gable in Mansfield(King's England, 2003), and her Selected Poems are in Take Five (Shoestring, 2003). Her latest collection isRevudeville (King's England, 2011).[PSR 5][PSR 19][PSR 21]