Selected Contributors:

Simon Armitage was born in 1963 in Huddersfield and burst onto the poetry scene in 1989 when Bloodaxe brought out his first book, ZOOM!. Eight more have followed, including Killing Time (Faber & Faber, 1999) and Selected Poems (Faber & Faber, 2001). Trained as a social worker, he wrote for his MA on television violence, and worked with as a probation officer. He currently teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University. A prior teaching stint at the Iowa Writers' Workshop helped make him one of the few contemporary English poets to crack the insular American market. With Robert Crawford he edited The Penguin Anthology of Poetry from Britain and Ireland Since 1945. Two further collections of poetry, The Universal Home.

Robert Crawford is co-editor of the New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse and The Penguin Anthology of Poetry from Britain and Ireland Since 1945. He is Professor of Scottish Literature at the University of St Andrews.

Amanda Dalton's first collection, Room of Leaves (Bloodaxe) was short-listed for a Forward Prize. Her radio plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and she also writes for the theatre. She has worked as a deputy headteacher in comprehensive schools, as a Centre Director for the Arvon Foundation, and is currently Education Director at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre.

Edward Larrissy is Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds. His most recent publications are Romanticism and Postmodernism (ed.), published by Cambridge in 1999, and the Oxford World Classics edition of W. B. Yeats: The Major Works (2001).

Rodney Pybus, a native of Newcastle upon Tyne and former editor of Stand, has had his poems collected in Cicadas in Their Summers: New & Selected Poems, 1965-1985 and Flying Blues: Poems 1988-1993, both from Carcanet. He has worked in journalism and television in England and Australia, and served as literature officer for Cumbria. He currently lives in Suffolk. He was featured in the Australian on-line journal Jacket in 1998.

Anne Stevenson is the author of over a dozen volumes of poetry, most recently Granny Scarecrow (2001), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread and Eliot Prizes. Others include The Collected Poems, 1955-1995, Four and a Half Dancing Men, and Correspondences. She is the author of several volumes of literary criticism as well, and also of Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath. A longtime supporter of Stand, she is pictured here at the reading at Leeds University to commemorate Stand's fifty years in November of 2002.

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