ALESSANDRO VAGLIO was born in Milan in 1979. In 1998, after completing his studies in Italy, he moved to London. A passionate poet, writer and guitarist since his early youth, he has been publishing his works through the Italian Publisher Officine Editoriali since 2015. This poem is his first publication in English.[PSR 41]
MARK VALENTINE is a veteran of the 1970s poetry scene. He was a columnist for British Underground Magscene, had booklets published by Excello & Bollard and X Press, and contributed to Smoke, Krax, Ludd’s Mill, The Fool, and Amoeba. Recent work has appeared in Agenda, Marble, PN Review, and Reliquiae.[PSR 36]
RUTH VALENTINE's latest collection is On the Saltmarsh (Smokestack, 2012). She lives in Tottenham, North London. [PSR 24]
BOB VANCE lives on the northeast shore ofLake Michigan where he works as a Family Counselor for Hospice of LittleTraverse Bay. He has been published in a wide variety of magazines throughoutthe USA, Canada, and the UK, including Orbis, Yankee andDalhousie Review. His poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Award. He writesplays, has recently acted in an outdoor production of As You Like Itin which he played both Jacques and Charles the Wrestler.[PSR 2][PSR 5]
DOUG VAN GUNDY's poems and essays have appeared in many journals, includingThe Oxford American, Ecotone, Poems & Plays, and The Louisville Review. His first book of poems,A Life above Water was published by Red Hen Press in 2007. Doug teaches in the low-residency MFA program atWest Virginia Wesleyan College where he also directs the undergraduate Honors program.[PSR 23][PSR 27]
MIRIAM VAN HEE, born in 1952, is a Flemishpoet. Her first collection, Het karige maal ("The scanty meal"),for which she was given the Province of East Flanders' Prize, won her instantrecognition. Since then she has published many collections. The poems translatedhere are from Het verband tussen de dagen ("The links between thedays" - selected poems, Amsterdam: De Bezige Bij, 1998). She is also ateacher and translator (Akhmatova, Mandelstam, Brodsky).[PSR 5]
MARJOLIJN VAN HEEMSTRA, born in 1981, is a well-known Dutch writer and journalist.She read Religious Studies at the Free University of Amsterdam. The poems translated here are from her first collectionof poems, Als Mozes Had Doorgevraagd ("If Mozes had asked more questions"; Bezige Bij, 2010), which gainedher instant acclaim and was awarded the Jo Peters PoëziePrijs. She has also written plays and a novel. [PSR 24]
ROBERT VAS DIAS, an Anglo-American born and now resident in London, has published tencollections in the UK and USA, the latest of which are Still Life and Other Poems of Art and Artifice (Shearsman, 2010)and London Cityscape Sijo and Other Poems (Perdika, 2012). His poems and criticism have appeared in Ambit,Ninth Decade, Oasis, Poetry Review, Shearsman, Stand, Staple, Tears in the Fence,and The Warwick Review in the UK, and in The Nation, The New Yorker, Partisan Review, andPoetry (Chicago) in the USA. He is a core tutor with The Poetry School in London.[PSR 23]
PAUL VAUGHAN lives in Yorkshire. His poems have appeared in Agenda, Frogmore Papers, Obsessed with Pipework, and Prole. He founded the poetry e-zine Algebra of Owls, which he still edits jointly with Hannah Stone and Nick Allen. [PSR 31]
TOM VAUGHAN is the pen name of a retired British diplomat who served in the Middle East, Africa, and the US. His previous publications include a novel, No Second Prize(Andre Deutsch, 1993), about his experience in post-colonial Zimbabwe, and two collections of poetry: A Sampler (2010) and Envoy (2013; both HappenStance). His poems have been published in Acumen, Dream Catcher, Orbis, Staple, Snakeskin, Haiku Quarterly, as well as in the 2003 Harper Collins/BBC anthology Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With) and the 2018 anthology Uncommon. He is a member of the Original Poets of Clapham Stanza Poetry Group, and four of his poems were included in their 2018 anthology Uncommon. He lives in France. [PSR 27] [PSR 34][PSR 37][PSR 40]
JOEL H. VEGA, born in Manila, Philippines, works as editor for the Reed Business Information group in the Netherlands.His poems and short stories have appeared in various Philippine and US publications.[PSR 8]
KATHERINE VENN lives in south London where she works in publishing. She has an MA in creative writing from UEA; her poetry has been published in Magma, Popshot, Third Way, Dappled Things, Theology and on London Grip and Caught by the River, where she also reviews books. [PSR 40]
PHILIP VENZKE grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. His chapbook Chant to Save the World (SurVision Books, 2022) was a winner of The James Tate International 2021 Poetry Prize.His second chapbook of poetry, Rules to Change the World, is being published by Finishing Line Press in 2023.[PSR 40]
PHIL VERNON has lived in Kent since 2004, after twenty years living in various countries in Africa. He has an MSc in Environmental Forestry, was a trustee of the charity Build Africa from 2005-2012, is a member of mining company BHP Billiton's Forum for Corporate Responsibility, and is a trustee of International Training & Research Centre INTRAC. He is an advisor on peacebuilding and international development. He started writing poetry again in 2012 after a twenty-year break. His poems have appeared in Acumen, Anima, Crannóg, Elbow Room, Gold Dust, Ink Sweat & Tears, Other Poetry, Out of Place, Pennine Platform, Poetry Salzburg Review, and The Poetry Shed. A micro-collection, This Quieter Shore (2018), was published by Hedgehog Poetry Press. Sentinel Poetry has just published his full collection, Poetry after Auschwitz. [PSR 32] [PSR 34]
MARTHA M. VERTREACE-DOODY is Distinguished Professor of English andPoet-in-Residence at Kennedy-King College, Chicago, IL. She received her MFA at Vermont College.Most recent books: Glacier Fire (Word Press, 2004), Dragon Lady (Riverstone Press, 1999),Smokeless Flame (Frith Press, 1998), and Second Mourning (Diehard Press, 1998).[PSR 15]
JUSTIN VICARI was born in New York City. He is a poet, fiction writer,film critic and translator. His work has appeared in Phoebe, 32 Poems, American Poetry Review,Rhino, Interim, Slant, Eclipse, Megaera, The Modern Review, Film Quarterly,Postmodern Culture and other journals. Vicari is currently seeking a publisher for his book,Dancing with Fassbinder. He lives in Pennsylvania.[PSR 12]
JOHN VICKERS is a mathematician, poet, novelist, philosopher. He has a PhD in Mathematical Logic from Bristol University and an MA in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University. He has published scientific papers in two distinct fields and conducted Post-Doctoral Research in Mathematical Logic and Neuroscience, especially various modes of brain imaging. His poems have been published in Envoi, The Journal, The Lighthouse, Orbis, Smiths Knoll, and Under the Radar. [PSR 34]
GANGA PRASAD VIMAL was born in 1939 in a smallHimalayan town of India. His work has been translated and published in a largenumber of languages. Presently he is professor at the Centre of Indian Languagesat the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.[PSR 10]
PAUL VINCENT studied at Cambridge and Amsterdam, and after teaching Dutch at the University of London for over twenty years became a full-time translator in 1989. Since then he has published a wide variety of translated poetry, non-fiction and fiction, including work by Achterberg, Claus, Couperus, Elsschot, Jellema, Mulisch, De Moor and Van den Brink, and, most recently, Nolens's An English Anthology (Carcanet, 2018). He is a member of the Society of Dutch Literature in Leiden. [PSR 34]
MARC VINCENZ is a poet, fiction writer, translator, editor, musician, and artist. He has published over 30 books of poetry, fiction and translation. His work has been published in The Nation, Ploughshares, Raritan, Colorado Review, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He is publisher and editor of MadHat Press and publisher of New American Writing. His newest books are There Might Be a Moon or a Dog (Gazebo, 2022) and The Pearl Diver of Irunmani (White Pine Press, forthcoming 2023).[PSR 18][PSR 39]
ANTHONY VIVIS worked with the Royal ShakespeareCompany for four and the BBC for six years. He has been a freelance writer/translatorsince 1983. Stage translations include works by Büchner, Reinshagen,Sperr, Chatten, Gerhart Hauptmann, Fassbinder, Kroetz, Fühmann, Karge,Botho Strauss, and Jelinek at theatres such as the Traverse, Bush and RoyalCourt, main house. Adaptations include Goethe's Faust and Schiller'sWallenstein. As well as work published by Methuen, Bloomsbury, Cambridge and OxfordUniversity Presses, he has completed two collections of poems by SarahKirsch (co-trans. W Mulford). His translations with Will Stone of GerhardFritsch, Egon Schiele and August Stramm have appeared in Modern Poetryin Translation, Pretext and Brindin Press, and are due to be published by Ambros Press.[PSR 2][PSR 4][PSR 5]
The German poet VOLKER VON TÖRNEwas born in Quedlinburg in 1934. His father was an SS-Officer. From 1962until his early death in 1980, he worked for the 'Aktion Sühnezeichen',which was an organisation dedicated to helping victims of fascist persecution.His feelings of guilt about his father's Nazi connections were so strongthat he literally worked himself to death in an attempt to atone for thecrimes in which he felt implicated.[PSR 2]