Notes on Contributors

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.

Lynn Bushell is an author and painter. Her third novel Painted Ladies, set in Bonnard’s Paris studio in 1917, was published in 2019 by Sandstone Press. She divides her time between a house on the Suffolk borders and a working retreat in Normandy.

Roger Craik is Emeritus Professor of English at Kent State University in Ohio. He was born in Leicester, studied at the universities of Reading and Southampton, and taught as a Fulbright Scholar in Bulgaria and Romania. His latest full-length poetry book is Down Stranger Roads (2014).

Hugh Dunkerley grew up in Edinburgh and Bath and now lives in Brighton with his wife and son. His first full collection, Hare (Cinnamon Press), came out in 2010. His latest collection, Kin has just been published. He also writes on literature and the 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.

Chris Emery is a director of Salt. He has published three collections of poetry: Dr. Mephisto, Radio Nostalgia and The Departure, as well as a writer’s guide, an anthology of art and poems, and edited selections of Emily Brontë, Keats and Rossetti. His work has been widely published in magazines and anthologised, most recently in Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets (Bloodaxe). He is a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing, edited by David Morley and Philip Neilsen. He lives in Cromer, North Norfolk, with his wife and children.

Duncan Forbes’s poems have been published by Faber, Secker and Enitharmon, who brought out a Selected Poems, Lifelines, in 2009. It was drawn from five previous collections. Awards and prizes include a Gregory Award, TLS/ Blackwells Prize, two Stephen Spender Times Translation Prizes and a Hawthornden Fellowship. A painter as well as a poet, he read English at Oxford and has taught for many years. Now retired, he lives in Gloucestershire.

Nicola Healey’s poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Poetry Review, PN Review, The Spectator and The Dark Horse. She won the Seren Christmas Poetry Competition 2018 and was commended in the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine 2017 and the Resurgence Poetry Prize 2015. She is the author of Dorothy Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge: The Poetics of Relationship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and several essays on the Coleridge family, most recently ‘Derwent Moultrie Coleridge’s Australian Exile’ in Romanticism (Spring 2018), which uncovers the literary life of S. T. Coleridge’s grandson.

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.

Kate Miller’s second collection of poetry will be published by Carcanet in 2020.

André Naffis-Sahely is the author of The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin, 2017). He is a Visiting Teaching Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan’s Writing School and is the Poetry Editor of Ambit magazine. A poetry pamphlet is forthcoming from Rough Trade Books in the summer of 2019.

Benjamin Palmer was born in Cardiff and currently divides his time between Wales and Mexico. He has worked as an actor, musician and translator. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Swansea University. His poetry has appeared in New Welsh Review; Forklift, Ohio; Wales Arts Review; The Interpreter’s House; The Caterpillar; and Neon; and was commended in The Interpreter’s House Poetry Competition.

Yogesh Patel edits Skylark and runs Skylark Publications UK as well as a non-profit Word Masala project to promote SA diaspora literature. A founder of the literary charity, Gujarati Literary Academy, he has been honoured with the Freedom of the City of London. With LP records, films, radio, children’s book, fiction and non-fiction books, and three poetry collections to his credit, in 2017, he was presented to The Queen at Buckingham Palace. A recipient of many awards, including an honour in April 2019 in NY as a Poet-of Honor at Nassau Community College for the Matwaala Lit Fest, he has read in the House of Lords and the National Poetry Library. His recent collection of poems is Swimming with Whales. His writing has appeared in PN Review, Shearsman, Orbis, IOTA, Envoi, Understanding, on BBC, and more. He is also anthologised in MacMillan, Redbeck and other anthologies. By profession, Yogesh is a qualified optometrist and an accountant. Author’s Websites: www.patelyogesh.co.uk and www.skylarkpublications.co.uk

Tony Roberts’s fifth collection, The Noir American & Other Poems, was published last summer. His second book of essays on poets and critics, The Taste of My Mornings, has just been published, also by Shoestring Press.

Declan Ryan’s debut pamphlet was published in the Faber New Poets series.

Fiona Sampson’s latest books are Limestone Country (Little Toller) and In Search of Mary Shelley (Profile). Her next collection, Come Down, will be published by Little, Brown in early 2020.

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.

Simon Tait is a freelance journalist, writer and editor. He is a former arts correspondent of The Times, editor of the online magazine Arts Industry, author of a biography of the painter Philip Sutton and was President of the Critics’ Circle 2013-15.

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.

Ben Weaver-Hincks is a writer and producer who lives in London. Alongside writing, he produces for theatre, film and audio.

Amy Wright is the author of two poetry books, one collaboration, and six chapbooks, including the prose collection Think I’ll Go Eat A Worm. Most recently her essays won first place in two contests, sponsored by The London Magazine and Quarterly West. She has also received two Peter Taylor Fellowships to the Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop, an Individual Artist Grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission, and a fellowship to Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her essays appear or are forthcoming in Brevity, Fourth Genre, Georgia Review, Ninth Letter, Waveform: Anthology of Women Essayists, and elsewhere.