COREY WAKELING (born 1985) lives in Melbourne, Australia. His work has appeared in The Australian Book Review, Cordite, Otoliths, Everyday Genius, [out of nothing], Etchings, Yomimono, Art Monthly (Australia), Willows Wept Review, NZEPC, The Sun Herald (Sydney)and The Age (Melbourne). He currently works on his PhD on Samuel Beckett at the University of Melbourne. [PSR 19]
KEITH WALDROP's recent books include TheHouse Seen from Nowhere (Litmus Press, 2002), Haunt (InstancePress, 2000), the trilogy: The Locality Principle, The Silhouette of the Bridge (America Award, 1997) and Semiramis, If I Remember(Avec Books, 1995, 1997, 2001), and the novel, Light While There IsLight (Sun & Moon, 1993). He has translated, among others, Anne-Marie Albiach, Claude Royet-Journoud, Paol Keineg, Dominique Fourcade, PascalQuignard, and Jean Grosjean. He teaches at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and is co-editor of Burning Deck Press. [PSR 4]
ROSMARIE WALDROP's recent books of poemsare Reluctant Gravities (New Directions, 1999), Split Infinites (Singing Horse Press, 1998), and Another Language: Selected Poems (TalismanHouse, 1997). Northwestern UP has reprinted her two novels, The Hanky of Pippin's Daughter and A Form/of Taking/It All (2001). She has translated most of Edmond Jabès's work (her memoir, LavishAbsence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès, was published by Wesleyan UP in November 2002) as well as volumes by Jacques Roubaud, Emmanuel Hocquard, and, from the German, Friederike Mayröcker, Elke Erb, and Oskar Pastior. [PSR 4]
BRENDA WALKER was born in New South Walesin 1957. She studied at the University of New England in Armidale and, after gaining a PhD in English at the Australian National University, she moved to Perth in 1984. She now lectures in English at the University of Western Australia. Novels: Crush (1991), One More River (1993)and Poe's Cat (1999). She has published a number of articles and reviews in the field of contemporary Australian women's writing. [PSR 10]
SUE WALKER is the Chair of the English Departmentat the University of South Alabama where she teaches literature and poetry. She is a critic, poet and fiction writer as well as playwright and runs Negative Capability Press. She is the author of four books of poetry. Anew collection, It's Good Weather for Fudge: Conversing with Carson McCullers, is forthcoming from New South Press (Montgomery, AL) in October 2003. [PSR 5]
TAÏ WALKER was born in the United States, but spent his formative years in Europe, mainly Germany, where he studied Philosophy and began translating. He then lived for over twenty-five years in South India, where he worked as a translator, primarily of sociology, history and anthropology. He presently lives in Ticino, Switzerland. Although he has been writing for many years, he has not until now attempted to publish his own work. [PSR 17]
PETER WALLIS is three times winner of the Thetford Open Poetry Competition, winner of the Living with Dementia Poetry Competition 2013, and of the Barnet Poetry Competition 2015. He won publication of his pamphlet, Articles of Twinship, in the Bare Fiction Debut Poetry Collection Competition 2015. He is Submissions Editor for the UK charity Poems in the Waiting Room. [PSR 33]
EOGHAN WALLS is an Irish poet who currently lives in Lancaster, where he teaches Creative Writing at Lancaster University. He has published two collections, The Salt Harvest (2011) and Pigeon Songs (2019, both Seren). [PSR 35]
JOHN WALSH, born 1950 in Derry, now lives in Connemara and runs the monthly poetryevent North Beach Poetry Nights in Galway city. He has published 2 collections:Johnny Tell Them (Guildhall Press, 2005) and Love's Enterprise Zone (Doire Press, 2007).Salmon published his third collection Chopping Wood with T. S. Eliot in May 2010.[PSR 17]
SARAH JULIET WALSH is a member of the Indian King stanza group in North Cornwall, UK which meets weekly for writing and critique. She has been published in The Rialto, Magma, The Fenland Reed, The North, and The Interpreter's House. Formerly a gardener and landscaper in London she now manages land for biodiversity and keeps rare breed cattle. [PSR 34]
TSERING WANGMO DHOMPA grew up in the Tibetancommunities in India and Nepal. She is the author of two chapbooks, InWriting the Names (A.bacus, Potes & Poets Press, 2001), and RecurringGestures (Tangram Press, 2000). Her first book of poems is Rulesof the House (Apogee Press, 2003). She works for a non-profit foundationin San Francisco where she lives.[PSR 6]
CHRISTIAN WARD is the author of Bone Transmissions (Maverick Duck Press, 2009).His work has been published in The Warwick Review, Grasslimb, Decanto, Remark, Iota,Other Poetry, Poetry Wales, Crannog, Envoi, and The Emerson Review.[PSR 13][PSR 16]
DONALD WARD was born in 1909 in Belmont, Surrey.His first book The Dead Snake (Allison & Busby) received anArts Council Award in 1971. Anvil Press produced Border Country,Mandeville Press and Mammon Press published three pamphlets. His most importantcollections are Lark Over Stone Walls (Hippopotamus, 1993), CollectedPoems (U. of Salzburg, 1995), and Selected Poems 1956-1996 (U. of Salzburg, 1996).[PSR 1]
RANDI WARD is a poet, translator, lyricist, and photographer from West Virginia. She earned her MA in Cultural Studies from the University of the Faroe Islands and is a recipient of the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Nadia Christensen Prize. Her work has appeared in Asymptote, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cimarron Review, The Cortland Review, Thrush Poetry Journal, and World Literature Today. [PSR 30]
PETER WARSHAW lives in Ashland, Southern Oregon. His poems have appeared in Commonweal, Sewanee Review, Science Editor, and The Jefferson Monthly. [PSR 22]
PHILIP A. WATERHOUSE was born and raised in a northeast town with one firehouse that tooted a special sequence for "Snow, no school today." He settled in a North San Francisco Bay Area town with one firehouse, no snow. Old newshound of print, radio,nothing big time and political campaign "consultant" doing hack writing, all occurred after a brief stint of years with contrasting respectable work as wheat harvester and constructionproject gofer. Unfortunately, he died on 4 September 2010 at the age of 87. [PSR 19]
PAUL WATSKY lives in San Francisco, and earns his living as a Jungian analyst. His poetry has appeared in The Cream City Review, Poetry Flash, Elysian Fields, and Modern Haiku. Tel-let published his chapbooks More QuestionsThan Answers (2001) and Sea Side (2003). [PSR 8]
IAN WATSON was born in Belfast but has spent most of his life in Bremen working as a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and British and Irish Literature. He has published poems, articles, and literary translations in Cyphers, Hard Times, Honest Ulsterman, Prairie Schooner, and Stint. From 1994 to 2012 he edited newleaf magazine and newleaf press. He is the author of two poetry collections in English, the latest being Granny's Interpreter (Salmon Poetry, 2016); his forthcoming Salmon collection is Somewhere, Far Away, a Radio. His recent German-language non-fiction includes Spielfelder: eine Fußballmigration and Bremen erlesen (both Edition Falkenberg). Alongside his scholarly and didactic work in both German and English, he has worked regularly for radio and made the film Cool to Be Celtic (arte 1999). He teaches literary writing freelance in schools and in adult education and is a steering committee member of the Literaturhaus Bremen. [PSR 22] [PSR 23] [PSR 28] [PSR 36]
ANTHONY WATTS has published four published collections: Strange Gold (KQBX Press, 1991), The Talking Horses of Dreams (Iron Press, 1999), Steart Point (John Garland, 2009), and The Shell Gatherer (Oversteps, 2011). He lives in Somerset, England. [PSR 32]
J. S. WATTS is a British novelist and poet. She was born in London and now lives and writes in East Anglia. In between, she read English at Somerville College, Oxford and spent many years working in the British education sector. Her latest poetry pamphlet, The Submerged Sea, was published by Dempsey & Windle in 2018. [PSR 34]
STEPHEN WATTS is a poet, editor and translator.Recent books are Gramsci & Caruso (Prague: Periplum, 2003) &The Blue Bag (London & New Delhi: Aark Arts, 2004). He helps run the Multicultural Arts Consortium in Whitechapel, where he also lives &where the "Brick Lane Mela Poem" is set. He has guest edited MotherTongues (MPT, 2001) & co-edited with David Miller Music WhileDrowning (Tate Publications, 2003). He co-translates mainly contemporary Persian, Kurdish & Slovenian poets. [PSR 9]
PETER WAWERZINEK (born in 1954 in Rostock, GDR). His parents escaped from East Germany shortly after his birth leaving him behind. He grew up in the north of East Germany near the coast of the Baltic Sea and was adopted after some years in children's homes. He moved to East Berlin in 1978 where he studied art (without completing a degree), worked a various jobs including gravedigger and carpenter. In the 1980s he was a performance artist and poet. He won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2010 for an excerpt from of his novel Rabenliebe (Bad Love, literally: Ravens' Love) which was also on the short-list of the 2010 German Book Prize. He has received numerous grants, among them the author's grant from the German Academy Rome Villa Massimo 2019. He lives in Magdeburg. Recent book publications: Schluckspecht (2014), Liebestölpel (both Galiani, 2019), and Letzte Buchung (Rough Books, 2023). [PSR 41]
JULIA WEBB did a Poetry MA at the University of East Anglia. She teaches Creative Writing at a women's centre, runs the Norwich Poetry Book Group and is on the editorial team of Lighthouse. She has hadwork published in journals including The Rialto, Ink Sweat and Tears, Other Poetry, Poetry News,and South. In 2011 she won the Poetry Society's Stanza Competition with her prose poem "Lent". [PSR 24]
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, J. MARCUS WEEKLEY now lives and works and plays in Lubbock, Texas. He is also a photographer,and is working in collaboration with Gail Folkins on a book about dancehalls in Texas. His writing has appeared, or is forthcoming in, IowaReview, 3 a.m., and Quick Fiction. [PSR 9]
PAUL WEIDKNECHT was born in Point Pleasant, New Jersey and currently lives in Phillipsburg.His work has appeared in Clackamas Literary Review, Fractured West, The Los Angeles Review,Pisgah Review, and Rosebud. [PSR 22]
REGINA WEINERT has lived roughly a third of her life each in Hamburg, Edinburgh and Sheffield and has had a university career in Linguistics. Her poems are also published by Ink Sweat & Tears, Magma, The North, Pennine Platform, Spelt, Stand, Under the Radar, and Wild Court. [PSR 32] [PSR 34] [PSR 38]
JOSEF WEINHEBER (1892-1945) was the majorpoetic voice of Germany in the 1930s and remains one of the distinctivevoices of German poetry in the twentieth century. Volumes of verse include:Adel und Untergang (1934, "Nobility and Decline"), Wien wörtlich(1935, "Vienna Verbally"), and Kammermusik (1939, "Chamber Music"). [PSR 8] [PSR 10]
TOM WEIR was one of the two winners of the 2014 IOTA Shot Pamphlet Award with his pamphlet The Outsider. His first full collection All That Falling (Templar) was brought out in 2015. [PSR 32]
MARK WEISS' publications include six books and chapbooks of poetry: Letter to Maxine (Heron Press, 1974), Intimate Wilderness (New Rivers Press, 1976), A Block Print by Kuniyoshi (Four Zoas Nighthouse Press, 1994), Fieldnotes (Junction Press, 1995), Figures: 32 Poems (2002), and As Landscape (2009, both Chax Press). He is editor and publisher of Junction Press. [PSR 15]
DANIEL WEISSBORT taught for many yearsin America, but is now back in England where he edits Modern Poetry in Translation, which Ted Hughes and he founded in 1965. His most recenttranslation is Selected Poems of Nikolay Zabolotsky (Carcanet) andhis most recent poetry collection is What Was All the Fuss About?(Anvil). He is working on a Historical Translation Theory Readerfor Oxford University Press and a book on Ted Hughes and Translationfor the same publisher. Anvil will publish his Letters to Ted and a translational memoir of the late Joseph Brodsky, From Russian With Love. [PSR 2]
MARIE LUISE WEISSMANN was born in Schweinfurt in 1899. Her first attempts at poetry were published in 1918 under the pseudonym M. Wels. She later settled in Munich, occupying various secretarial posts, and in 1922 married Heinrich F. S. Bachmair, who published her four collections of verse as well as her translations of Paul Verlaine and Blaise Cendrars. She died of an infection resulting from angina in 1929. [PSR 20]
ROBERT ANTHONY WELCH has published poetry, fiction, criticism, and drama.Of his five volumes of poetry The Evergreen Road (2006) and Constanza (2010) were published by Lagan Press. He was Dean of Arts at the University of Ulster, where he is now Professor Emeritus of English. He is the editor of The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature (1996). Together with Greg Delantyhe edited Patrick Galvin: New and Selected Poems (Cork UP, 1996). [PSR 18]
PAULA WELD-CARY is a naturalist who enjoysmountain climbing and birding. She lives in New York with her husband andson. Her poems have been published in Atlanta Review,Nimrod International, and The Lyric. She is also a novelist with four completed novel manuscripts. [PSR 13]
HEATHER WELLS is Assistant Editor of The London Magazine. Maiden Voyage (2014)is her debut poetry collection. [PSR 28]
JUNE WENTLAND was born in Hull and currently lives in Corsham, Wiltshire. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University and has a day job being the Reader Development Officer for Bath and N.E Somerset Council Library Service. Her fiction has been televised and published by BBC Television. She has been an occasional guest lecturer for the Creative Industries degree at Southampton Solent University. Her poetry has been published in Poetry Ireland Review and Stand. Her first novel, Foolish Heroines, is to be published by Valley Press in September 2021. [PSR 37]
KIRK WEST, born in Rochester, south-east England, in 1952, is a teacher of English asa Foreign Language and a translator. [PSR 22] Influenced by David Bowie, Virginia Woolf and Sally Wainwright,
ELINORA WESTFALL is an Australian/British lesbian actress and writer of stage, screen, fiction, poetry, and radio from the UK. Her novel Everland has been selected for the Penguin and Random House WriteNow 2021 Editorial Programme and will be published later this year. Her short films have been selected by Pinewood Studios & Lift-Off Sessions, Cannes Film Festival, Raindance Film Festival, Camden Fringe Festival, and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, while her theatre shows have been performed in London's West End and on Broadway, where she won the award for Best Monologue in 2021. She is also working on The Art of Almost, a lesbian comedy-drama radio series. [PSR 39]
PHILIP WEXLER, retired from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and originally from Brooklyn, New York, lives in Bethesda, Maryland. He is the author of two collections – The Sad Parade (2019) and The Burning Moustache (2020, both Adelaide Books), poetry in prose and verse respectively. He also coordinates and hosts Words out Loud, a monthly spoken word series at Glen Echo Park in Maryland. Non-literary pursuits include technical editing and making mosaics. [PSR 18] [PSR 35]
RYAN WHATLEY was born in Hastings in 1986. His poems have been published in Agenda, The Rialto, Magma, Other Poetry, and The Stand. [PSR 41]
WYNN WHELDON has had work published in many magazines including Acumen,London Magazine, Orbis, and The Spectator. He recently assisted William Sieghart and Matthew Hollisin compiling Winning Words (Faber and Faber, 2012). Tiny Disturbances, an Acumen Occasional Pamphlet and his first collection, was published in June 2012. He has worked in journalism, arts administration, politics, bookselling,radio, and advertising. [PSR 23]
ANTHONY WHITE was born in Chelmsford in 1944. Educated at King Edward VI Grammar School Chelmsford, Hammersmith College of Building and Architecture, Colchester School of Art and Design, Ravensbourne College of Art and Design. A career in cinema, television and theatre has allowed him to pursue his personal research in painting,film and writing without commercial pressure. [PSR 20]
CALVIN WHITE lives in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada where he works as a therapeutictutor for troubled teenagers. He also leads writing adventures to India. In 2010, he worked for Médecins Sans Frontièresas a mental health specialist in Uzbekistan. His publications include poetry, We Run Faster with the Deer(Turnstone Press, 2001), and non-fiction, The Secret Life of Teenagers (The Key Publishing Co., 2013). [PSR 24]
JAMES R. WHITLEY lives in Boston, Massachusetts and works as an attorney. His poetry has been nominated for the PushcartPrize and has been published in Gargoyle, Mississippi Review, Poetry Midwest, and Xavier Review. His first book, Immersion (Lotus Press, 2002), was selected by Lucille Cliftonas the winner of the 2001 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award. His second book, This Is the Red Door, won the 2003 Ironweed Press Poetry Prize andwas be published in 2005. [PSR 6][PSR 9]
JAY WHITTAKER's debut poetry collection, Wristwatch, was Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year 2018. Her second collection, Sweet Anaesthetist (both Cinnamon Press), will be published in October 2020. Her poems have been published in Butcher’s Dog, Gutter, Impossible Archetype, Nitrogen House, The North, and Poetry Birmingham. She lives in Edinburgh. [PSR 35]
ROD WHITWORTH was born in Ashton-under-Lyne in 1943 and taught for 33 years. He has had work published in The North, Magma, The Cannon’s Mouth, The Journal, and Pennine Platform. He has been a student at the Poetry Business Writing School and now lives in Oldham. [PSR 33] [PSR 38] Over 45 years
LES WICKS has performed widely in Australia & internationally. Conducts workshops around Australia, has edited various projects over the decades, latest being Guide to Sydney Crime (2022), and runs Meuse Press which focuses on poetry outreach projects like poetry on buses & poetry published on the surface of a river. His 15th book of poetry is Time Taken – New & Selected (Puncher & Wattmann, 2022). [PSR 39]
MILENA WIECZOREK, born in Rybnik, southern Poland, in 1960, is a graduate from theUniversity of Gdansk. She has published six volumes of poetry, including Tytus, Syn Rembrandta(1987; "Titus, Son of Rembrandt"), Poezja ("Selected Verse"), and Czastka swiatla("A Particle of Light"; both 2005). Most recently she has, with her husband Kirk West, translated workby Cyprian Norwid into English for a spoken word CD. [PSR 22]
AARON D. WIEGERT has a BA in English from Iowa State University and is a Staff Writer for Drunk Monkeys Webzine. His work has appeared in Indent Magazine, The Broken Plate,The Tulane Review, The South Carolina Review, Burner Magazine, and Antique Children Quarterly. [PSR 24]
KLAUS WIEMANN, born in 1934 in Germany, studied Biology, Physics and Sports Science. He taught Biomechanics and Kinesiology at the universities of Bochum and Wuppertal. Since 1999, he has concentrated on painting inthe style of Fantastic Realism. His artworks show scenes and objects from mythology, imaginary creations, and human bodies in movement. [PSR 15]
KAZIMIERZ WIERZYŃSKI (1894-1969) was born in Drohobyez, Austria-Hungary(now Drohobych, Ukraine) and studied in Krakow and Vienna before serving in the Austrian Army during the Great War. He livedin Warsaw during the inter-war period and was a co-founder of the Skamander group. From 1939 until his death, he lived in exile, mainly in the USA. He is a highly regarded Polish poet and has been extensively anthologized in Poland, even underthe Communists. Selected Poems (New York: Voyages Press, 1959) is the only volume of his poetry that has been published in English. [PSR 11]
MARY WIGHT is retired and lives close to the Firth of Forth in Scotland. Her poetry has been published in The Honest Ulsterman, Poetry Scotland, The Poets' Republic, The Rialto, Stand and Strix. [PSR 41]
MENNO WIGMAN (The Netherlands, 1966) is regarded as one of the most interesting poets of his generation and he has won several awards. He has published three full-length collections to date: 's Zomers stinkenalle steden [In the Summer All Cities Stink] (Bert Bakker, 1997), Zwart als kaviaar [Black as Caviar](Prometheus / Bert Bakker, 2001), Dit is mijn dag [This Is My Day] (Prometheus, 2004). In 2006 he was invited to write ashort collection to celebrate National Poetry Day. Wigman is also very active as an editor and translator; Baudelaire andRilke are among the poets whose work he has translated into Dutch. [PSR 16]
ALEXANDRA WILDE was born in England, but grew up in East Africa (Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya). She comes from a much-travelled journalistic background, and is also a successful singer and performance poet. As well as her poems being readable and understandable, she tries to ensure her work can be performed effectively on stage, to connect with audiences dramatically and emotionally. [PSR 40]
ANDREW WILDERMUTH is a poet from Maryland, studying American Literature and Culture in Erlangen, Germany. His first collection of poems, US, won the Kate Chandler Award for Literature, Writing, and the Environment. His work has appeared in Avatar, Here Comes Everyone, Into the Void, SOFTBLOW, and Yes Poetry. [PSR 34]
BEN WILENSKY, 66, has been a merchantseaman, soldier, news reporter, and art teacher. He favors good wine andwhiskey, Chinese food, and American football. He works out at a gym threetimes a week. He is married to the great love of his life. His work has appeared world-wide. [PSR 1]
JAMES WILKIE, born in Glasgow, holds a Ph.D degree from the University of Vienna, where helives. He is a prolific writer, broadcaster and foreign policy consultant to several national and international organisations and edited the intercultural magazine Austria Today for fifteen years. [PSR 2]
CHARLES WILKINSON was born in Birmingham, UK in 1950. Publications: The Pain Tree and Other Stories (London Magazine Editions, 2000) and The Snowman and Other Poems (Iron Press, 1987). His pamphlet Ag & Au was published by Flarestack Poets in 2013. His full-length poetry collection, The Glazier’s Choice, appeared from Eyewear in 2019. Recent work has appeared inEnvoi, Gargoyle, Magma, New Walk, Orbis, Other Poetry, Poetry Wales, Shearsman, The Reader, The SHOp, Tears in the Fence, Under the Radar, and The Warwick Review. He has three collections of weird fiction and strange tales, all from Egaeus Press: A Twist in the Eye (2016), Splendid in Ash (2018), and Mills of Silence (2021). He lives in Powys, Wales. [PSR 17] [PSR 19] [PSR 22] [PSR 24] [PSR 26] [PSR 29] [PSR 34] [PSR 39]
JOHN WILKINSON works in mental healthin North East London. From 2003-04 he will be based in New York thanksto a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award, working on a book on mental health and the city. His most recent books of poetry are Effigies Against the Light (Salt, 2001) and Signs of an Intruder (Parataxis,2001). A new Salt collection will appear this year. [PSR 4]
JUDITH WILKINSON is a British poet and translator, living in Groningen, the Netherlands.She has won many awards for her work, including the 2011 Popescu Prize for European Poetry in Translation, for her translation of Toon Tellegen's Raptors (Carcanet, 2011) and the 2013 Brockway Prize. Her translation of Menno Wigman’s poetry, The World by Evening, was published by Shearsman Books in 2020. She has written two collections of her own poetry, Tightrope Dancer (2010) and Canyon Journey (2016, both Shoestring Press). The next collection of her own work, In Desert, was published by Shoestring Press in summer 2021. She is currently translating Roelof ten Napel's poetry, with a view to a Selected Poems. [PSR 5] [PSR 7] [PSR 9] [PSR 14] [PSR 16] [PSR 18] [PSR 24] [PSR 28] [PSR 31] [PSR 37] [PSR 39] [PSR 41]
RIK WILKINSON has been published in Acumen, Agenda, Equinox, Manifold,and Spokes Magazine. His pamphlet collection A Hundred Mile Walk was published by Acumen in 2008.[PSR 16]
BRIAN WILLEMS is an American teaching British literature at the University of Split, Croatia. His work has been published in Prague Literary Review, Eyeshot, Milk Magazine and others. [PSR 9]
GWILYM WILLIAMS was born in North Wales. In 1962 he was paid 10/6d by the Liverpool Echofor his first poem. He then gave up poetry for 40 years. He was recently rescued by David Greenslade and told to give poetryanother go. Poems have appeared in iota, Pulsar and Poetry Monthly. He lives in Vienna. [PSR 10]
ISOBEL WILLIAMS lives in London. She wrote and illustrated The Supreme Court: a Guide for Bears (2017) and contributed an illustrated chapter to Design and Visualisation in Legal Education: Access to the Law (Routledge, 2021). She is included in New Poetries VIII (Carcanet, January 2021) and her illustrated collection of Catullus versions, Shibari Carmina Catulli, was published by Carcanet in March 2021. [PSR 36]
JOHN HARTLEY WILLIAMS has published twelve collections of poetry, two of which were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His most recent publications are Less of That W or I'll Z You! (Surrealist Editions, 2011), Hex Wheels (Bonnefant Press, 2011), A Poetry Inferno (Shoestring Press, 2011),Outpost Theatre (Bonnefant Press, 2010), Café des Artistes (Jonathan Cape, 2009), and The Ship(Salt, 2007). He has lived for the last thirty years in Berlin. [PSR 21]
J. L. WILLIAMS was born in New Jersey and studied at Wellesley College with the poet Frank Bidart. Her poetry has been published in The Red Wheelbarrow, The Wolf, Aesthetica, Fulcrum, and Stand. She is currently studying on the MLittcourse in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. [PSR 14]
JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS is the author of Controlled Hallucinations (FutureCycle Press, 2013)and six poetry chapbooks. He serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review, co-director of the Walt Whitman 150 project,and Marketing Director of Inkwater Press. A few previous publishing credits include: Bryant Literary Review, The Chaffin Journal, Cider Press Review, Cream City Review, The Evansville Review,Inkwell, RHINO, and Third Coast. He lives in Portland, Oregon, USA. [PSR 25]
HEIDI WILLIAMSON has lived in Stirling, Brussels, and Norfolk. She was poet-in-residenceat the London Science Museum's Dana Centre in 2008 and 2009. Her first collection Electric Shadow (Bloodaxe, 2011)was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the 2012 Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry. She is currently poet-in-residence at the John Jarrold Printing Museum in Norwich. [PSR 24]
Born in Wiltshire, JACKIE WILLS now lives in Brighton. She has published four collections of poetry with Arc: Powder Tower (1995), Fever Tree (2003), Commandments (2007), Woman’s Head as Jug (2013), and one with Leviathan: Party (2000). Powder Tower was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the 1995 T. S. Eliot Prize. She was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the universities of Surrey and Sussex between 2009 and 2012. [PSR 31]
CLIVE WILMER has recently published his New and Collected Poems (Carcanet, 2012) and his translations of poems by János Pilinszky, Passio (Worple, 2011), translated from the Hungarian with GeorgeGömöri. He is Emeritus Fellow in English at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and the Master of John Ruskin's Guildof St. George. He has written extensively on the work of Ruskin and his circle, interviewed poets for the BBC,and edited an anthology about Cambridge. [PSR 22]
Born in California, MARGARET WILMOT worked in the Mediterranean and New York before moving to Sussex, UK, in 1978. Her poems have been published in Acumen, Artemis, Magma, Oxford Poetry, The Rialto, Scintilla, Staple, and Temenos. In 2013 Smiths Knoll published her pamphlet Sweet Coffee. A full-length collection – Man Walking on Water with Tie Askew – was published by The High Window in 2019. [PSR 36] [PSR 39] [PSR 41]
DAVID WILSON lives in North Yorkshire, England. The Equilibrium Line, a collection of poems inspired by climbing, has just been published by smith|doorstop. His debut poetry pamphlet, Slope, was published in 2016. Paul Muldoon awarded him the 2015 Poets and Players Prize for his poem “Everest”. [PSR 34]
JOYCE WILSON, editor of The Poetry Porch, a literary magazine on the Internet since 1997, has taught English at Boston University and Suffolk University. Her first book of poems, The Etymology of Spruce (Rock Village), and a chapbook, The Springhouse (Finishing Line) were both published in 2010. Individual poems have appeared in Ibbetson Street Magazine, Salamander, Mezzo Cammin, and Poetry Ireland Review. The chapbook, The Need for a Bridge, was released by Finishing Line Press earlier this year. A full-length collection, Take & Receive, has just been published by Kelsay Books. [PSR 34]
PHILIP WILSON grew up in Yorkshire and teaches at the University of East Anglia. He hasedited Literary Translation: Re-drawing the Boundaries (with Jean Boase-Beier and Antoinette Fawcett;Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and is the author of Translation after Wittgenstein (Routledge, December 2015). The Bright Rose (Arc, 2015) is a volume of poems that he has selected and translated from Old and Middle High German. [PSR 28]
ROBIN LINDSAY WILSON was born in South Australia. He is a lecturer in Acting & Performance at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. He has published three collections of poetry: Backstage in Paradise (2019), Myself and Other Strangers (2015), and Ready Made Bouquets (2007). Rehearsals for the Real World is a compendium of over 500 short monologues and pieces of microfiction (2020; all Cinnamon Press). His work has appeared in The Rialto, Magma, Brittle Star, Iota, Dream Catcher, South, The Journal, The Interpreter's House, and Envoi. [PSR 37] [PSR 40]
ROSS WILSON was born in 1978 and raised in Kelty, a former mining village in West Fife, Scotland. His poems have appeared in Edinburgh Review, Gutter, and Horizon Review. His first pamphlet,The Heavy Bag, was published by Calder Wood Press in 2011. [PSR 28]
KURT WILT is Professor of English and Writing at Saint Leo University. A writer of poems, prose,plays, and books, his work has appeared in publications such as Essays on Canadian Writing, Prism International,Matrix, Louisville Review, Gulf Stream Review, Red Rock Review, and Crosscurrents. In addition, his collection of sonnets, Red Sonnets, was published by Green Rabbit Press in 2004. [PSR 22]
SARAH WIMBUSH is a Yorkshire poet and the recipient of a Northern Writers' Award. Her first collection, Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands, was published by Bloodaxe in 2022. Her poems have recently appeared in Poetry Wales, Magma, Northern Gravy, Acumen and in the celebratory Plath anthology, After Sylvia (eds. Ian Humphreys and Sarah Corbett, Nine Arches Press, 2022). [PSR 40]
GEOFFREY WINCH's poetry has been published in journals including Envoi, Fire,Iota, Sarasvati, South, and South Bank Poetry. His tanka have appeared in Blithe Spirit, Modern English Tanka, and Ribbons. His third collection, Letting the Road-Dust Settle(Indigo Dreams, 2010), coincided with his retirement as a highway engineer. [PSR 25]
MARIA WINE (1912-2003) was abandoned at Jægerspris Castle Orphanage in Denmark at the age of four, after which she flourished into a dexterous doyenne of Swedish literary modernism. Something of the loneliness and the braveness of her childhood, the fragility of her start in the world, re-mains woven through her work, and immanent in the poems of her debut collection, Vinden ur Mörkret (The Wind out of the Darkness; 1943), where these two poems are from. Wine has been almost entirley lost to the English-speaking world, eclipsed by her husband Artur Lundqvist, but in Sweden she published over 40 books of different kinds. In "Titellek", the final poem in Wine's final collection (Utan längtan, inget liv, Without Longing, No Life; 1997), she looks back over fifty years of writing. It begins: "The wind out of the darkness / opened the gate of poetry for me." [PSR 39]
KAREL WITT, born 1947 in Ostrava (Moravia), lives in Berne (Switzerland), self-taught, ...is a notorious moonshiner & retrorunner thru time ..., un-buttoning the past with offbeat methods, he distils history'sindigestible events, thus laying down an all-time valid guidance on how to stay out of reach & keep out of range.So obviously, ... (neo-)dAdA or rather deonada is still alive! [PSR 22]
ELIZABETH WITTS lives in London, and used to work for the BBC Overseas Services. Her first collection of poems, ThePool of Echoes, was published in 2006 by Authority. [PSR 11]
ELZBIETA WO´JCIK-LEESE writes with/in English, Polish and Danish. Thirst in Three Directions is forthcoming from The Knives Forks and Spoons Press in 2022. Nothing More (Arc, 2013), sampling Krystyna Milobedzka, was shortlisted for the 2015 Popescu European Poetry Translation Prize. Night Truck Driver (Zephyr Press, 2020), her selection from Marcin S´wietlicki, was longlisted for the 2021 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. Cognitive Poetic Readings in Elizabeth Bishop: Portrait of a Mind Thinking (2010) is based on her Fulbright research at the Elizabeth Bishop archives. She co-curates "Transreading" courses on translocal and hybrid poetries for the Poetry School in London. [PSR 37]
SHOLEH WOLPÉ was born in Persia butspent most of her teen years in Trinidad and England, ending up in theU.S. where she says she became fascinated by its vastness, isolation and good-looking men. She spent her twenties pursuing degrees at three universities; thereafter she worked as a health docu-mentary producer. She was selected this year by the LA Poetry Festival as one of the "talented poets who've reached an interesting level of development and who've lately become activeand influential in the community." She lives in Redlands where she hosts Poetry at the Loft. [PSR 5]
Originally from Essex, MICK WOOD worked for many years in experimental and community theatreas a director and performer. His poems have been published in Acumen, The Interpreter's House,Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry London, Seam, and THE SHOp. He now lives in Strasbourg. [PSR 16][PSR 18]
DIANA WOODCOCK's first collection, Swaying on the Elephant's Shoulders, was publishedby Little Red Tree in 2011. Her three chapbooks include In the Shade of the Sidra Tree (Finishing Line Press, 2010), Mandala (Foothills Publishing, 2009), and Travels of a Gwai Lo (Toadlily Press, 2009). She is a PhD candidateat Lancaster University. Currently teaching at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, she has lived and worked inTibet, Macau and Thailand. [PSR 21]
GREGORY WOODS is the author of four collections, all from Carcanet Press: We Have the Melon (1992), May I SayNothing (1998), The District Commissioner's Dreams (2002), and Quidnunc (2007). His critical books include Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-Eroticism and Modern Poetry (1987) and A History of GayLiterature: The Male Tradition (1998), both from Yale University Press. [PSR 13]
MARC WOODWARD was writer-in-residence at The Wellstone Center in Santa Cruz, California in 2018. His collections include A Fright of Jays (Maquette, 2015), Hide Songs (Green Bottle Press, 2018), and The Tin Lodes – a collaboration with Andy Brown (Indigo Dreams, 2020). [PSR 38]
ANNE HARDING WOODWORTH is the author of five books of poetry, the most recent being Unattached Male (Poetry Salzburg, 2014). Her work has appeared in many journals in printand on-line, including The Antigonish Review, Connecticut Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Painted Bride Quarterly, Poet Lore, and TriQuarterly. She is a member of the Poetry Board at the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington, DC, where she lives. [PSR 23] [PSR 28] [PSR 38]
BARON WORMSER was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1948. He did graduate studies atthe University of California, Irvine and the University of Maine. In 2000 he was appointed Poet Laureate of Maineand served in that capacity for six years. He currently resides in Cabot, Vermont. Since 2002 he has taught in theStonecoast MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. In 2009 he joined the Fairfield University MFA program.He has published nine col-lections of poetry, his most recent are Scattered Chapters: New and Selected Poems(Sarabande, 2008) and Impenitent Notes (CavanKerry, 2011). [PSR 22]
RICHARD WOTTON is a translator who lives in Berlin. His poems have recently been publishedin The Frogmore Papers, Orbis, and Upstairs at Duroc, Crab Orchard Review, and Cider Press Review. .[PSR 22] [PSR 25]
LILIANE WOUTERS (1930) was born in Ixelles (Brussels) where she worked as a teacher until 1980. In 1985 she was elected to the Belgian A cadémie royale de langue et de littérature françaises. She won the Nuit dela Poésie (1955), (among the judges were Cocteau, Aragon and Reverdy), the Prix triennal de Poésie (1962), Prix LouiseLabé (1967), Grand Prix de la Maison de Poésie (1989). Selected titles: l’aloès (1983), Journal du Scribe(1990), Le billet de Pascal (2000). [PSR 8]
LAWRENCE WRAY has been published in a variety of on-line and print journals, includingCider Press Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Dark Horse, The Innisfree Poetry Journal, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and Weave Magazine. He studied Comparative Literature at Binghamton University and English at Duquesne University. [PSR 27] [PSR 33]
MICHAEL WRIGHT is a retired librarian. He read English at Cambridge. He was formerly editor of the English Berlioz Society Bulletin; his cycle of poems, Mosaic of the Air (University of Salzburg Press,1996) is based on Berlioz' compositions. [PSR 12]
PATRICK WRIGHT's poetry collection Full Sight of Her was published by Eyewear in 2020. His poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The North, Southword, Agenda, Wasafiri, London Magazine, and The Reader. He teaches English Literature and Creative Writing at the Open University. [PSR 41]
ROBERT WRIGLEY has published ten books of poetry in the US and the UK. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Idaho. A new collection, Box, will appear in 2017, from his long-time publisher Penguin Books. [PSR 29]
GRZEGORZ WRÓBLEWSKI was born in 1962 in Gdansk and grew up in Warsaw. Since 1985 he has lived in Copenhagen. He has published nine volumes of poetry and two collections of short prose pieces in Poland; three books of poetry, a book of poetic prose and an experimental novel (translations) in Denmark; and selected poemsin Bosnia-Herzegovina. English translations of Wróblewski's poetry have appeared in journals on both sides of the Atlantic,including Poetry London, Jacket, and Chicago Review. Two selections have been published in English: Our Flying Objects: Selected Poems (Equipage, 2007) and A Marzipan Factory: New and Selected Poems (Otoliths, 2010). [PSR 21]
CHARLES WYATT is the author of a collection of short fiction, Listening to Mozart (University of Iowa Press,1995), and a novella, Falling Stones: The Spirit Autobiography of S.M. Jones. He has published poems in numerous journals in the USA. He is presently visiting fiction writer at Purdue University. [PSR 6]
LYNNE WYCHERLEY was born in East Anglia, but her writing is inspired by many landscapes, including those of Ireland and Scotland. She is a former Blue Nose Poet-of-the-Year. Her first pamphlet, Cracks in the Ice, was published by Acumen (1999). Shoestring Press releasedher first full collection At the Edge of Light in 2003. [PSR 6]