Selected Contributors:

Alison Brackenbury's latest collection is Singing in the Dark (Carcanet, 2008). New poems can be read at her website, www.alisonbrackenbury.co.uk

Giovanni Capucci, from Faenza (Ravenna) Italy, has published several collections of poems in addition to Twin Towers (2002), including Effimera (2007) and Anima mia (2011). She has also published six novels, including Amore mio non piangere (2009) and Il badante (2011).

Maggie Freeman was born in Trinidad and lives in Essex, where she teaches Creative Writing in Adult Community Learning. Her novel Cymberie set in the 1580s, was published in October 2012.

Robert Hamberger has featured on the Guardian Poem of the Week website. He has been awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship and shortlisted for a Forward Prize. His collections are Warpaint (1997), The Smug Bridegroom (2002) and Torso (2007).

Ag Jones comes from the Isle of Man and read English at Cambridge (another handicap), subsequently sentenced to 30 years social work (no appeal), retired, doesn't play golf, lives in Derbyshire. He helped with Stand (qv).

Ann Lohner was born in America, spent many years in Europe, and now lives in Canada. 'Identity' is her first story accepted for publication.

Andrew McNeillie's next book of poems, Winter Moorings is due out early in 2014 from Carcanet.He is founding editor of the magazine Archipelago and runs Clutag Press: www.cultagpress.com

Basil du Toit was born in South Africa in 1951 and has spent the past 30 years living in Edinburgh. His third collection, Historic Computing Machines is forthcoming from snailpress, Cape Town.

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