Notes on Contributors

Gary Allen’s new poetry book, Sour Hill, has just been published by Greenwich Exchange Publishing.

Humphrey ‘Huck’ Astley is a poet and musician based in Oxford. His works include the pamphlets Reasons Not to Live There (Sabotage Reviews Recommended Release, 2012), The Gallows-Humored Melody (Albion Beatnik Press, 2016) and, most recently, The One-Sided Coin (Rain over Bouville, 2018). His writing has appeared/is appearing in Agenda, Poetry London, and more. | humphreyastley.co.uk

Alison Brackenbury’s tenth collection is Aunt Margaret’s Pudding (HappenStance Press, 2018). Its poems were one of the ingredients of a recent Radio 4 programme and were featured in Pick of the Week. Gallop, her Selected Poems, will be published by Carcanet in February 2019.

Ian Brinton now writes full time after nearly 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.

Katie Da Cunha Lewin is a writer and tutor based in London. She has a PhD in literature, examining the novels of J.M. Coetzee and Don DeLillo. She is the co-editor of Don DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives published by Bloomsbury in 2018, and recently wrote an entry on Don DeLillo for the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Her writing has appeared in 3AM, Hotel, The White Review, Times Literary Supplement, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She teaches courses on literature, theory and film at the University of Sussex, the IF Project, Bishopsgate, City Lit, and Picturehouse Cinemas.

Hugh Dunkerley grew up in Edinburgh and Bath and now lives in Brighton with his wife and young son. His first full length poetry collection, Hare (Cinnamon Press), came out in 2010. A new collection entitled Kin will be published in 2018. He also writes on literature and environment and his award winning lecture, ‘Some Thoughts on Poetry and Fracking’, was delivered at the 2016 Hay International Festival. He currently runs the MA in Creative Writing at The University of Chichester.

Suzannah V. Evans is a poet, editor, and critic. Her poetry, reviews, articles, and interviews have appeared in the TLS, PN Review, Magma, New Welsh Review, Brittle Star, The Modernist Review, The North, Eborakon, Firth, and elsewhere, and she is Reviews Editor for The Compass. A selection of her poems was longlisted for the 2018 Ivan Juritz Prize for creative responses to modernism, and she is an AHRC-funded PhD researcher at Durham University.

John Gimlette is the author of five books: At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig, Theatre of Fish, Panther Soup, Wild Coast and Elephant Complex; Travels in Sri Lanka (Riverrun £9.99). In 1997, he won the Shiva Naipaul Prize for travel writing, and, in 2012, he won the Dolman Travel Book Prize. He has contributed articles and photographs to a wide range of magazines and broadsheet newspapers. In September 2015, Wild Coast was nominated by The Daily Telegraph as one on the ‘Twenty Best Travel Books of all Time’.

Ronan Hyacinthe began to write in Rome, after studying philosophy both in London and Paris. He now works in Lisbon. Some of his poems and haikus have appeared in American and British magazines.

Moira McCavana’s fiction has previously appeared in The Harvard Review. At the moment, she’s at work on a collection of short stories set in the Spanish Basque Country, an extension of her thesis at Harvard University, which won the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for understanding undergraduate research and fiction. She currently lives in Madrid, Spain.

Niall McDevitt is the author of three collections of poetry, b/w (Waterloo Press, 2010), Porterloo (International Times, 2013) and Firing Slits, Jerusalem Colportage (New River Press, 2016). He is also known for his psychogeographical, psychohistorical walks such as The William Blake Walk, An Arthur Rimbaud Drift, A Chaucer London Pilgrimage, The Kensington Modernists, and many others. As art-activist he has campaigned to save the Rimbaud-Verlaine house in Mornington Crescent, and against overdevelopment of sites near Blake’s burial ground in Bunhill Fields. In 2016, he performed his poetry in Iraq at the Babylon Festival. He blogs at poetopography.wordpress.com Jeffrey Meyers, FRSL, has had thirty-three books translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents. He’s recently published Robert Lowell in Love and The Mystery of the Real: Correspondence with Alex Colville in 2016. Resurrections: Authors, Heroes—and a Spy was published in 2018. Konrad Muller served as an Australian diplomat in Cairo and Tel Aviv. He now lives in Hobart and is nishing a novel about the Danish revolutionary and British spy, Jorgen Jorgensen, who ended his days as a convict-commander in Tasmania’s notorious Black War.

Peter Robinson is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Reading, and poetry editor for Two Rivers Press. Author of aphorisms, prose poems, short stories, and four volumes of literary criticism, he has been awarded the Cheltenham Prize, the John Florio Prize, and two Poetry Book Society Recommendations for his poetry and translations from the Italian. His most recent publications include a novel, September in the Rain (2016), his Collected Poems 1976-2016 (2017), and a new critical monograph, The Sound Sense of Poetry (2018). 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. His subsequent collections are published by Shearsman Books. Will’s published translations include works by Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, Rainer Maria Rilke, Gérard de Nerval, Emile Verhaeren and Georges Rodenbach. His last published translation was The Art of the City- Rome Florence Venice by Georg Simmel (Pushkin Press, 2018) In spring 2019 Pushkin will publish Surrender to Night - Collected Poems of Georg Trakl and new editions of his earlier books with Hesperus Press. Will’s essays and reviews have also appeared in The TLS, Apollo, The Spectator, The White Review and RA Magazine. Taylor Strickland is a data analyst. He lives in Denver, CO, with his wife, Lauren, and dog, Lola.

Vasyl Stus (1938–1985) was a Ukrainian poet and translator. He is renowned for his acutely tragic philosophical poems, complex imagery, and frequent use of self-invented neologisms. Although very few of his literary works dealt with political issues, he was repressed for his support of the Ukrainian dissident movement and for his criticism of the Soviet Union’s colonial Russianization policies. Stus spent many years of his life in detention. The KGB often confiscated the manuscripts of his poems and translations (including Rilke, Goethe, and Kipling), many of which were destroyed and lost to posterity. Vasyl Stus died in a forced labour camp in 1985.

Shaun Traynor is a N. Irish poet and children’s author, editor of The Poolbeg Book of Irish Poetry for Children. His latest collection is Van Gogh in Brixton, published by Muswell Press 2013. See also www.shauntraynor.co.uk

Iain Twiddy grew up at the edge of the fens in Lincolnshire, eastern England. He is the author of two critical studies of contemporary poetry. He lives in the city of Sapporo, in northern Japan. Rebecca Watson is a freelance arts writer. She works as an editorial assistant at the Financial Times.

Alan Zhukovski is a poet and translator. His work has appeared in The London Magazine, New Statesman, Ambit, Tin House, Agenda, The Threepenny Review, Oxford Poetry, Gulf Coast, Acumen, Plume, Blackbird, Asymptote, The Fortnightly Review, Orbis, and elsewhere.