Selected Contributors:

Elizabeth Cook taught in the Leeds School of English between 1979 and 1984. She is the editor of the Oxford John Keats and her fiction, Achilles, was published by Methuen in 2001. She is currently working on an oratorio with the composer Francis Grier.

Ian Duhig’s most recent book of poems is The Lammas Hireling published by Picador this year. He is the 2003 International Writing Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin.

Linda France currently lives in Northumberland. Her latest collection, Simultaneous Dress, was published by Bloodaxe in 2002.

Andrew McNeillie (b. 1946) has published two volumes of poems, Nevermore (2000), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and Now, Then (2002), both in the Oxford Poets series from Carcanet. His prose memoir, An Aran Keening (2001), was published in Dublin by Lilliput and in the USA by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Jeffrey Wainwright’s most recent book of poems is Out of the Air (Carcanet 1999). He teaches in the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University where he is Professor of English.

Patricia Clark’s poems have appeared recently in The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, and Slate. She is the author of North of Wondering (1999; reissued 2003).

Peter Dale’s latest book of verse is Under the Breath, Anvil, 2002. His terza rima version of Dante’s Divine Comedy has just gone into the fourth edition. He is currently poetry editor of Oxford Today and an editorial director of Between The Lines.

Matthew Sweeney’s selected work was published by Cape in 2002, and a new collection called Sanctuary will appear from the same publisher in September 2004.

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