Selected Contributors:

Ken Smith’s most recent Bloodaxe collection is Wild Root.

Fergus Allen’s third and most recent collection, Mrs Power Looks Over the Bay, was published by Faber in 1999. He lives in Berkshire.

Rodney Pybus’ most recent collection of poetry is Flying Blues (Carcanet). The title group of his first volume In Memoriam Milena (Chatto & Windus, 1973; bi-lingual edition with French translation by Françoise Trichet, Editions de l’Envol, 1995) has been set to music by Jacques Michon, and received its premiere at Toulouse in 2001.

Kathryn Gray lives in London. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2001 and a selection of her work appears in Anvil New Poets 3. Her work has been published in the TLS, The Independent, Poetry Review and Poetry Wales. She was shortlisted for the 2001 Poetry Review Dearmer Prize for new poets.

Eugene Dubnov was  born in Tallinn in 1949. He lived in Riga from 1960 until he left USSR in 1971. Educated at the University of Moskow; Bar-Ilan Jewish Studies. He taught English, American and Russian Literature, as well as Jewish History, in UK and Israel. He was writer in residence at Carmel College, Oxfordshire (1984-87) and Wingate Scholar (London, 1990-93). Dubnov is currently living in Jerusalem and in London.

John Heath-Stubbs, O.B.E. was born in London in 1918. His early years were spent in Hampshire. He has published a number of books of verse, criticism and plays. His latest volume is ‘The Sound of Light’ published by Carcanet Press. He is a previous Gregory Fellow at Leeds University and read English at Queens College Oxford. Has held teaching posts in America, Egypt and London and is presently living in London.

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