Notes on Contributors

Nicholas Asprey has recently retired after 45 years in practice at the Chancery Bar and has taken up writing articles on subjects of interest to him. He is a Governing Bencher of the Inner Temple and a member of the Library Committee and has served as Editor of the Inner Temple Yearbook. Andy Brown is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Exeter University. His most recent edited books are the anthology, A Body of Work: Poetry and Medical Writing (Bloomsbury, 2016), and The Writing Occurs As Song: a Kelvin Corcoran Reader (Shearsman, 2015). His many poetry collections include Watersong (Shearsman, 2015), Exurbia (Worple, 2014), The Fool and the Physician (Salt, 2012), Goose Music (with John Burnside, Salt, 2008) and a selected early poems, Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006 (Salt, 2006). He has published one novel, Apples & Prayers (Dean Street, 2015).

Ian Brinton now writes full time, after forty years of school-teaching. Recent publications include an edition of Selected Poems and Prose of John Riley (Shearsman), translations from the French of Philippe Jaccottet (Oystercatcher Press), For the Future, a festschrift for J.H. Prynne (Shearsman), An Andrew Crozier Reader (Carcanet) and Contemporary Poetry and

Poets since 1990 (C.U.P.). He co-edits Tears in the Fence and SNOW and is on the committee setting up the new archive of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Cambridge. He is the Web Manager for The English Association’s War Poets Website.

Elena Caldera is an artist, nurse and firefighter based in Brescia. She is an Associate Editor of International Times. Donna L. Emerson lives in Petaluma, California with her husband and daughter. She has just retired from teaching at Santa Rosa Jr. College and her clinical social work practice. Her recent publications include Calyx, Denver Quarterly, Sanskrit, The Place That Inhabits Us, Poems of the Bay Area Watershed, The Paterson Literary Review, the New Ohio Review. She has been nominated for a Pushcart, “Best of the Net” and received an Allen Ginsberg poetry award. Her four chapbooks include This Water, 2007, Body Rhymes, 2009, Wild Mercy,2011, and Following Hay, 2013. Her first full-length book of poetry, The Place of Our Meeting, comes out this year.

Suzi Feay was literary editor of the Independent on Sunday for eleven years and has judged many literary prizes. She has been a writer, broadcaster and critic on a wide range of literary and cultural topics in the UK media.

João Luís Barreto Guimarães was born in Porto, Portugal where he graduated in Medicine. He is a poet (as well as a breast reconstructive surgeon). As a writer, he is the author of nine poetry books since 1989, collected twice, including his first seven books in Poesia Reunida ( Collected Poetry, Quetzal) and the subsequent Você Está Aqui ( You Are Here, Quetzal, Lisbon, 2013) and Mediterrâneo ( Mediterranean, Quetzal, Lisbon, 2016). He is also a translator, a chronicler and a blogger, mainly for his blog Poesia & Lda (Ilimited Poetry). His work is published in anthologies in Portugal, Brazil, Germany, Italy, México and Croatia, as well as in literary magazines in Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, United Kingdom, Macedonia, Brasil and the United States.

Matthew Henley’s first collection, Beetle, was published in 2014 by Templar. He currently lives in Sarajevo Holly Howitt is a writer and lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, where she leads the MA in Creative Writing. She has written a novella, a collection of microfictions, and has edited several microfiction and prose poetry anthologies. She has just completed a new literary novel, Beyond the Moon, and is finishing a collection of poetry. Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist and freelance art critic. The Poetry Society’s only ever official Public Art Poet, she has published three collections of poetry: Everything Begins with the Skin (Enitharmon), Ghost Station and The Forgetting and Remembering of

Air (Salt), a book of short stories, Rothko’s Red (Salt) and two novels, Depth of Field (Dewi Lewis) and Girl in White (Cinnamon Press). Her third novel will be published by Cinnamon in 2017. Art critic for many years on The Independent and The New Statesman, her Adventures in Art, a compendium of essays on art, is published by Other Criteria. She was recently invited to record her poems for the National Poetry Archive. com. www.suehubbard.

Emma Hughes was born in 1986 and studied English at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, followed by an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. She’s a freelance journalist, and her work has appeared in newspapers and magazines including The Telegraph, Time Out, Country Life and the Spectator. ‘The Match Factory’ is her first published short story. She lives in south London.

Andrew Lambirth is a writer about art who also writes poetry and makes collages. Besides contributing to a range of publications including The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian and RA Magazine, he was art critic for The Spectator from 2002 until 2014, and has collected his reviews in a paperback entitled A is a Critic. Among his recent books are monographs on the artists David Inshaw, Eileen Gray and William Gear. He lives in Suffolk surrounded by pictures. Alistair Lexden is a Conservative peer and historian. His recent publications include A Gift

from the Churchills: The Primrose League 1883-2004 and The Carlton Club 1832-2007. In a forthcoming lecture to mark the 150th anniversary Stanley Baldwin’s birth, he will reassess the career of an extremely well-read prime minister who dominated inter-war British politics; the lecture will be broadcast on the BBC Parliament Channel in April. Full details of his historical work and of his contributions to the Lords can be found on his website,htpp://www. alistairlexden.org.uk.

Steven Matthews is a poet and critic who was raised in Colchester, Essex, and now lives in Oxford. His poetry collection Skying was published in 2012 and he has been a regular reviewer for journals including the TLS, Poetry Review, and The London Magazine. He has been Poetry Editor for Dublin Quarterly Magazine. As a critic, Steven Matthews has published books on a wide range of twentieth- and twenty- first century poetry in English, including writing on Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Les Murray, and contemporary Irish poetry.

Alex Mazey’s poetry has featured regularly in anthologies and literary press magazines. He has helped facilitate workshops for Writing West Midlands, an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation created to support creative writers and creative writing in the West Midlands region. Alex began writing poetry in 2008, under the guidance of Irish poet, Kathleen McPhilemy. Between 2010-2013, he studied Creative Writing (BA Hons) at Staffordshire University before moving to the University of Keele in 2015 to complete an MA under award-winning poet, James Sheard. He was a guest speaker at TEDx Keele University in 2016. Jeffrey Meyers published a chapter on Malraux in A Fever at the Core, chapters on Camus in Painting and the Novel and Homosexuality and Literature, and several articles on each of them. He brought out Robert Lowell in Love and The Mystery of the Real: Correspondence

with Alex Colville in 2016. Joel Pace is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Prior to teaching in America, he completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford, where he overindulged in tea, poetry, and music. Later this year Culicidae Press will publish his debut collection of poetry, Inside Providence, which also features the artwork of his late father as well as original musical settings of select poems. Karen Rigby is the author of Chinoiserie (Ahsahta Press, 2012). Her poems have been published in Field, Black Warrior Review, jubilat, and other journals. She lives in the American Southwest. Leila Segal was born in London, of Polish, Lithuanian and Romanian descent. Breathe: Stories from Cuba (flipped eye, 2016) is her debut collection, and originates in the time she lived in Havana and the Pinar del Río province of Cuba. Her stories have appeared in Litro, Wasafiri Magazine, The Lonely Crowd, Mechanics’ Institute Review, Generations Literary Journal, Papeles de la Mancuspia, Loose Muse, Square Peg, and Ink, Sweat & Tears. She is the director of Voice of Freedom, a creative writing and photography project with women who have escaped slavery.

Will Stone is a poet, essayist and literary translator. His first poetry collection Glaciation (Salt, 2007), won the international Glen Dimplex Award for poetry in 2008. A second collection Drawing in Ash appeared from Salt in May 2011. Shearsman Books republished these in 2015 and published a third collection The Sleepwalkers in April 2016. Arc Publications has published a selected poems of Georg Trakl (2005) and Emile Verhaeren (2013) and to follow Georges Rodenbach (2017). Pushkin Press published his first English translation of Zweig’s Montaigne in August 2015 and Zweig’s Messages from a lost world in January 2016. A further collection of Zweig’s essay portraits will be published in autumn 2017 as Encounters and Destinies – A Farewell to Europe . Hesperus Press will publish his translation of Friedrich Hölderlin: Life, Poetry and Madness by Wilhelm Waiblinger in 2017. Will is currently writing a book about the lesser known artistic and cultural landscapes of Belgium.

Tom Sutcliffe wrote about the arts, especially opera, in The Guardian for many years, was opera critic of the Evening Standard from 1996 to 2002, and writes now for Opern Welt in Berlin and Opera Now in London. He was president of the Critics’ Circle from 2010 to 2012. He wrote Believing in Opera (Faber, 1996) and edited the Faber Book of Opera. He has served on the General Synod for 24 years.

Marina Warner is a writer of fiction and cultural history. Her books include Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (l976), Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism (l982). In l994 she gave the BBC Reith Lectures on the theme of Six Myths of Our Time. She has explored the fabulist tradition in From the Beast to the Blonde (l994), Stranger Magic: Charmed States and The Arabian Nights (2011), and Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairytale. Her third novel, The Lost Father, was short-listed for the Booker prize in

l988; it was followed by Indigo and, in 2000, by The Leto Bundle. A third collection of short stories, Fly Away Home, was published in 2015. She is now working on Inventory of a Life Mislaid, inspired by her childhood in Cairo. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature, and was given the Holberg Prize in the Arts and Humanities in 2015.

Venetia Welby is a writer and journalist who has lived and worked on four continents. When not seeking out new countries and ideas, she is actively involved in the literary scenes of London and Oxford. She lives in Bow, east London with her husband, son and Bengal cat.

Imogen Woodberry is an AHRC funded PhD student at the Royal College of Art, researching interwar esotericism and utopia internationalism. She is assistant editor at Review 31.

Heathcote Williams’s most recent book is American Porn (Thin Man Press, 2017). His play, The Ruff Tuff Creem Puff Estate Agency, is to be staged in April by Cardboard Citizens at the Bunker in Southwark as part of a season of plays on the theme of homelessness, Home Truths.

Ella Windsor has contributed to various publications including Monocle Magazine, Vogue, The Ecologist and The Daily Telegraph. She writes about culture, the arts and arts education, particularly in South America where she lived for several years. She is Director of Arts and Travel for Branding Latin America Group, a London-based platform for the region. She is also Board Director of Toucan Ventures, supporting the growth of creative entrepreneurs, and the Playing for Change Foundation, a global music education nonprofit organisation. She graduated from Brown and Oxford universities with degrees in Comparative Literature and Social Anthropology.