Selected Contributors:

Anne Born is a poet, translator and critic, and translates poetry and fiction from Scandinavian languages; volumes include poetry by the Danish Nordic Prize winner Pia Tafdrup (1988), Solveig von Schoultz and Bo Carpelan. She has translated many of Henrik Nordbrandt's poems for magazine publication.

Keith Botsford co-edits The Republic of Letters in Boston with Saul Bellow. He is Professor of Journalism at Boston University, and is currently a columnist for The Independent (London) and US correspondent for La Stampa (Turin). He has taught at Yale, Bard College, and the University of Puerto Rico, and published a number of novels, works of non-fiction and poetry.

David Harsent's most recent collection, A Bird's Idea of Flight, was short-listed for the 1998 T.S. Eliot Prize. His sequence in progress, Marriage, is a loose interpretation of the relationship between Pierre Bonnard and Marthe de Meligny. A recent collaboration with Harrison Birtwhistle resulted in a song cycle, The Woman and the Hare, commissioned by the Nash Ensemble, to be performed in March 1999.

Anthony Hecht is one of America's most distinguished poets. His most recent collections are The Transparent Man (1991) and Flight among the Tombs (1996). In 1992 he gave the A.W. Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, published in 1995 in the Princeton University Press Bollingen Series as On the Laws of the Poetic Art.

Ruth Padel won the 1996 National Poetry Competition. Of her four collections, Angel was a PBS recommendation and Rembrandt Would Have Loved You was a PBS choice and shortlisted for the 1998 T.S. Eliot Prize. She reviews widely in the UK and fro The New York Times, and has a "Sunday Poem" column in the Independent on Sunday.

Pauline Stainer's The Wound-dresser's Dream was shortlisted for Whitbread Book of the Year. Her other collections, The Honeycomb (1989), Sighting the Slave Ship (1992) and The Ice-Pilot Speaks (1994), are all Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Her fifth collection, Parable Island, is due from Bloodaxe in 1999. She lives on the island of Rousay in the Orkneys.

Jon Stallworthy's Rounding the Horn: Collected Poems and his autobiographical Singing School were published last year. A Professor of English Literature at Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy, he has published award-winning biographies of Wilfred Owen and Louis MacNeice and critical studies of Yeats's poetry, as well as editing The Penguin Book of Love Poetry and The Oxford Book of War Poetry.

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