Notes on Contributors

Kathryn Gray is 26 years old, originally from Swansea, but now living in London. She has been writing for over a year, having attended workshops with Michael Donaghy. Her work has been published in small journals.

Bill Greenwell is head of Performing Arts, languages and English at Exeter College, Exeter. He writes a weekly poem for The New Statesman. His collection "Tony Blair Reminds Me of a Budgie" appeared in 1997.

David H W Grubb was born in 1941. A poet and novelist, he was the winner of the Exeter Poetry Prize in 1996 and the winner of the Berkshire Poetry Competition in 1999. Latest prose includes "Sanctuary", published by Stride. Latest poetry includes "Dancing with Bruno" (Blackwater), "An Alphabet of Light" (Oversteps) and "A Country Alphabet" (Tern). Forthcoming selected and new work will be published by Stride (Exeter) in 2001.

David Hart lives in Birmingham and has been associated with the Hay Literature Festival for several years. Two of his poems were shortlisted out of the ten shortlisted for the Poetry Society/BT epoetlaureate competition. He won Second Prize in the Exeter Poetry Prize in 1997.

Jane Hayter-Hames was born in Chagford, Devon where she is a local historian. She has also published the biography of Cynthia Longfield, dragonfly expert, poet and journalist. Her account of Arthur O'Connor, leader of the 1798 rebellion in Ireland is expected in 2001.

Christopher Hedly-Dent lives in Devon, and is a professional painter and amateur jazz pianist. His recent exhibition "Mirror-Talk" had a poetry pamphlet published to coincide with the opening.

Jacqueline Hughes is a retired businesswoman living in Devon, now able to indulge in her addiction to reading and writing poetry.

B A Humar is an English writer living in Switzerland. He has been published in several journals and won a number of prizes, including The Arvon Poetry Prize 1998.

Tinker Mather has been published by The Guardian, The Independent and Poetry London. She won the Exeter Poetry Prize in 1997.

Antony Nicholls lives in Surrey and has had poems appearing in London Magazine, Southfields, Outposts and Upstart.

Pascale Petit is the Poetry Editor of Poetry London. "My Father's Lungs" is from "The Zoo Father", her second collection, due from Enitharmon in 2001. Her first collection, "Heart of a Deer" was published in 1998 (Enitharmon). She has also been a featured poet in PQR.

Mario Petrucci has worked on a Poetry Society Placement at the Imperial War Museum. His first collection "Shrapnel and Sheets" was published in 1996.

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