Selected Contributors:

Peter Bakowski when writing poems keeps in mind the following quotes: 'Use ordinary words to say extraordinary things' (Schopenhauer); 'Writing is painting' (Bukowski); 'Make your next poem different from your last' (Frost). Here is his blog.

Michael Breiner lives and writes in South Burlington, Vermont. A collection of short prose works, The Way None of This Happened, is forthcoming from Fomite Press.

Maggie Freeman was born in Trinidad and has lived in Essex for thirty years. Her historical novel, Cymberie, set in 1580s Essex, was published in 2012.

Siobhan Harvey is the author of the 2013 Kathleen Graham Award winning poetry collection, Cloudboy (Otago University Press, 2014) and, as co-editor, Essential New Zealand Poems (Random House, 2014). Her work is featured in the Poetry Archive.

Stanley Horowitz is currently teaching photography at Farmingdale State College on Long Island. His recent covers have included Rattle, Buddhist Poetry Review, and Cimarron Review.

Tim Liardet has produced seven collections of poetry. A pamphlet, Madame Sasoo Goes Bathing, was published in 2013; his most recent full collection was published by Carcanet in 2014, and the same publisher will bring out New and Selected Poems in 2015. He his Professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University.

Naomi Ruth Lowinsky 's poems run up and down ladders between the worlds. Ghosts speak to her, as do gods and animals. Her poems are widely published; her fourth collection is The Faust Woman Poems.

George McWhirter lives in Vancouver. He writes poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, which have been published in Stand, Poetry Ireland Review, The Fiddlehead, and Cuadrivio among others. He was inaugurated as Vancouver's first Poet Laureate in 2007.

Sean O'Brien is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His recent publications include Collected Poems (2012), The River Road, new and selected poems (Beijing, 2014), and The Beautiful Librarians (2015).

Susanna Roxman, born in Stockholm, writes in English. She has three poetry collections published by Dionysia Press, Edinburgh; the latest is .

N.S. Thompson's latest work is Letter to Auden (Smokestack, 2010). Currently he is translating fiction for a major London publisher. He is co-editor with Andy Croft of A Modern Don Juan: Cantos for These Times by Divers Hands (Five Leaves). He reviews regularly for Stand.

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