Notes on Contributors

Timothy Adès is a rhyming translator-poet. His recent books are Robert Desnos, Surrealist, Lover, Resistant (hundreds of poems) and Loving by Will, Shakespeare’s sonnets unfolded in lipograms. Both books include the original texts. Timothy runs a bookstall of translated poetry.

is from Scotland but now lives in the Cévennes mountains of France. Her two collections Sharon Black are To Know Bedrock (Pindrop, 2011) and The Art Of Egg (Two Ravens, 2015. www.sharonblack.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. Terry Craven is a writer and painter from Yorkshire. he co-owns and co-manages Desperate Literature bookshop in Madrid, where he co-founded the bilingual literary and arts journal La Errante, as well as the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize, which is currently in its second year.

Kevin Cahill is a poet from Cork City, Ireland. He is a graduate of University College, Cork, and has worked over the years for The European Commission, Cork Institute of Technology, and as a Reiki practitioner. He has been published in journals in Ireland, the UK, and the US, including Berkeley Poetry Review, The Manchester Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The London Magazine, Agenda, Magma, The SHOP, The Edinburgh Review, gorse, The Glasgow Review of Books, The Oxonian Review, Honest Ulsterman and with The Stinging Fly.

Peter Davies is a journalist and literary critic whose Student Guide to William Blake is published by Greenwich Exchange Publishing.

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.

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.

Robert Hamberger has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship and featured on the Guardian’s Poem of the Week website. His work has appeared in British, American and Japanese anthologies and The Observer, The London Magazine, New

Statesman, The Spectator, The Poetry Review and Gay Times. He has published six pamphlets and three collections, with his fourth collection Blue Wallpaper forthcoming from Waterloo. His memoir, A Length in the Road, will be published by John Murray in 2020.

Holly Howitt is a writer and lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University. She has written a novella, a collection of micro fictions, and has edited several micro fiction and prose poetry anthologies. She has just completed a new literary novel, Beyond the Moon, and is finishing a collection of poetry.

Charlie Johnson is a painter who studied at Colchester School of Art, Reading University, and University College London. He divides his time between East Anglia, and Northern Italy where he has had numerous exhibitions. For more images of work see www.charliehjohnson. com Andrew Lambirth is a writer about art who also makes collages and writes poetry. Besides contributing to a range of publications including The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Art Newspaper and RA Magazine, he was art critic of 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, William Gear and Brian Rice. He is currently researching a big book on John Nash, and he lives in Wiltshire surrounded by pictures. Alistair Lexden is a Conservative peer and political historian. His short study, Neville Cham

berlain: Redressing the Balance, an enlarged version of a recent lecture broadcast on BBC Parliament, was published in October. Full details of his historical work, and of his contributions in the Lords of which he is a Deputy Speaker, can be found on his website, http://www. alistair lexden.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.

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. Daniel Mulhall has maintained a lifelong interest in the work of James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, about whom he has written and lectured regularly around the world. His blog on Ulysses is available via a link on his Twitter account @DanMulhall where he posts lines of Irish poetry each morning. He has spent his professional career in the Irish diplomatic service and is currently Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States of America. Michael O’Neill’s fourth book of poems Return of the Gift from Arc appears in 2018. It has received a Special Commendation from the Poetry Book Society. Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet living in Scotland. She is a Ph.D. student at the University of Edinburgh, where she is studying poetry written by second-generation immigrant writers. Her own writing is an exploration of what it means to be the daughter of immigrants; it grapples with language loss, cultural identity, and displacement. Sheenagh Pugh lives in Shetland. She has published several collections of poetry with Seren; her next is due out in May 2019 and is called Afternoons Go Nowhere. Matthew Smith’s poetry has been published in Acumen, Envoi and will be published in the autumn in Poetry Salzburg Review. His first novel is The Waking. He lives in London. 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 in May 2011 (Salt Publishing). Shearsman Books published a third collection The Sleepwalkers in April 2016. Will’s poetry translations include To the Silenced - Selected Poems of Georg Trakl (Arc, 2005) Emile Verhaeren Poems (Arc, 2013) and Georges Rodenbach Poems (Arc, 2017). Pushkin Press published his translation of Montaigne by Stefan Zweig in 2015 and Messages from a Lost World – Europe on the Brink by Stefan Zweig in January 2016. Pushkin will publish Encounters and Destinies – A Farewell to Europe by Stefan Zweig in 2018 and Rome, Florence, Venice by Georg Simmel will also appear in 2018. Hesperus Press will publish Friedrich Hölderlin: Life Poetry and Madness by Wilhelm Waiblinger in 2018. Surrender to Night - Collected Poems of Georg Trakl will be published by Pushkin in 2019, along with new editions of Journeys by Stefan Zweig (2010), Rilke in Paris by Maurice Betz (2011) and On the End of the World by Joseph Roth (2013). Will contributes essays/reviews on literature and art to a range of publications including The London Magazine, The Times Literary Supplement, Apollo Magazine, the RA Magazine, The White Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry Review, and Agenda. Nicholas Summerfield has previously written on the contemporary novel for The London Magazine and on Anthony Burgess for Dream Catcher. He has also contributed film reviews to Shock Horror magazine.

Simon Tait is a freelance journalist, writer and editor. He is a former commissioning editor of the Telegraph Sunday Magazine and arts correspondent of The Times and has contributed features to most national newspapers. He is co-editor of the fortnightly Arts Industry magazine. He is the author of a biography of the painter Philip Sutton among other books, and was President of the Critics’ Circle 2013-15. Will Vigar writes mostly about landscapes, seascapes, brutalist housing estates and other marginal spaces. At any given time, he’d rather be anywhere else, and when he grows up he wants to be Olav H. Hauge. Fiercely Northern, he lives in Hampshire and is not best pleased about it. Stuart Walton is a cultural historian and critic. He is author of Intoxicology: A Cultural History of Drink and Drugs, as well as A Natural History of Human Emotions, In The Realm of the Senses: A Materialist Theory of Seeing and Feeling, Introducing Theodor Adorno and a novel, The First Day in Paradise. His monograph on the chilli pepper, The Devil’s Dinner, was published by St Martin’s Press in October 2018. Robert Wilton was advisor to the Prime Minister of Kosovo in the period before the country’s independence, and has lived and worked in the Balkans for most of the last dozen years. He also writes on the history and culture of the region, and translates Albanian poetry. He’s cofounder of The Ideas Partnership charity, working with marginalized Balkan communities. Treason’s Spring, latest in his prize-winning series of historical novels, is now available in paperback and Peril in Piccadilly will appear in 2019.