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AUTHORS
Authors A to C
Abiz, Alireza
Adams, Seren
Adcock, Juana
Adès, Timothy
Aguilar, Luis Miguel
Akhmatova, Anna
Akhtar, Sascha Aurora
Alcalá, Rosa
Allen, Tim
Anderson, Martin
Angwin, Roselle
Anonymous
Apollinaire, Guillaume
Arvelo Torrealba, Alberto
Ashton, Kate
Atkins, Marc
Ayres, Michael
Bachman, Merle Lyn
Back, Rachel Tzvia
Bagoo, Andre
Balmer, Josephine
Baranda, María
Barnas, Maria
Barone, Dennis
Bastelaere, Dirk van
Baxt, Ellen
Beake, Fred
Beck, Art
Becker, Jürgen
Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo
Berengarten, Richard
Bell, James
Berk, Ilhan
Birchard, Guy
Black, Linda
Blank, Debby Jo
Bletsoe, Elisabeth
Blonstein, Anne
Bolton, Ken
Booth, Martin
Boyle, Peter
Bradshaw, Joseph
Bramness, Hanne
Breen, Daragh
Brewerton, Andrew
Brinton, Ian
Brown, Andy
Brown, Pam
Browning, Robert
Brownsword, Chris
Buckheit, Melissa
Bugan, Carmen
Burn, Sean
Caddy, David
Čaks, Aleksandrs
Caleshu, Anthony
Camões, Luis Vaz de
Capildeo, Vahni
Carew, Thomas
Cârneci, Magda
Carpenter, J.R.
Castaño, Yolanda
Castro, Rosalia de
Cavafy, C.P.
Cave, Sarah
Cebreiro, Maria do
Cebrián, Mercedes
Celestine, Alfred
Chanda, Avik
Chaudhuri, Amit
Chávez, Jorge Humberto
cheek, cris
Chernoff, Maxine
Chudleigh, Lady Mary
Cisneros, Antonio
Clariond, Jeannette
Clark, Tom
Clarke, Adrian
Clarkson, Geraldine
Claudel, Paul
Clement, Jennifer
Coghill, Mary
Cole, Peter
Coleridge, Mary
Connolly, Susan
Copeland, Brooklyn
Corcoran, Kelvin
Corless-Smith, Martin
Corlett, Rosemarie
Corman, Cid
Critchley, Emily
Cronin, M.T.C.
Cross, Elsa
Crowe Serrano, Anamaria
Crowther, Claire
Crozier, Andrew
Crucefix, Martyn
Cuadra, Pablo Antonio
Authors D to G
Daniels, Chris
Daly, Catherine
Davidson, Ian
Davidson, Lynn
De Marchi, Pietro
de Rokha, Pablo
de Rokha, Winétt
Debney, Patricia
Deeny Morales, Anna
Deming, Richard
Dent, Peter
Dentz, Shira
Dickey, Laressa
Dickinson, Mark
Diego, Gerardo
Doce, Jordi
Docherty, Tom
Doerr, Joe
Donahue, Joseph
Donis, Giacomo
Donne, John
Dooley, Terence
Dorn, Edward
Draesner, Ulrike
Du Fu
Duffy, Nikolai
Duggan, Laurie
Duncan, Andrew
Dyckman, Susanne
Echavarren, Roberto
Economou, George
Edwards, Ken
Elenkova, Tsvetanka
Ely, Steve
Enslin, Theodore
Eriksson, Helena
Espmark, Kjell
Etter, Carrie
Evans Bauer, Amy
Evans, Paul
Farrell, Patricia
Faust, Clive
Fellows, Gerrie
Ferencuhová, Maria
Finch, Peter
Fine, Aidan
Finkelstein, Norman
Finlay, Alec
Finlayson, Keri
Firestone, Jennifer
Fisher, Allen
Fisher, Roy
Forrest-Thomson, Veronica
Fowler, S.J.
France de Bravo, Brandel
Frank, Edwin
Frank, Jane
Frazer, Tony
Freind, Bill
Frew, Hazel
Fryatt, Kit
Fulcher, Tamara
Fulton Macpherson, Robin
Furniss, Damian
Futoransky, Luisa
Gaffield, Nancy
Galbraith, Iain
Gander, Forrest
Gardner, Angela
Gaynor, Fergal
Gearen, Cameron
Georges, Richard
Gervitz, Gloria
Gianuzzi, Valentino
Glazova, Anna
Goar, Jim
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Goldhagen, Juergen
Goodby, John
Goodland, Giles
Goodwin, Mark
Gorrick, Anne
Gray, Thomas
Green, Paul A.
Greenslade, David
Gromadzki, Derek
Grossman, Hagit
Grubb, David H. W.
Guess, Carol
Guest, Harry
Guilar, Liam
Gutkind, Christopher
Authors H to K
Hadari, Atar
Hadbawnik, David
Hajdari, Gezim
Hakim, Khaled
Hales, Catherine
Hall, John
Halsey, Alan
Hamilton, Lucy
Hampson, Robert
Harrison, Lesley
Harrison, Martin
Harwood, Lee
Haslam, Michael
Hawkins, Ralph
Hawley, Anthony
Hedeen, Kathleen M.
Heller, Michael
Henderson, Jennifer Morag
Herbert, W.N.
Herd, David
Herrera, Fernando de
Herrick, Robert
Hertmans, Stefan
Hill, Barry
Hjelmgaard, Lynne
Ho, Tammy Lai-Ming
Hoffman, Eric
Holman, Paul
Holmes, Janet
Holton, Brian
Homan, Brandi
Hooker, Jeremy
Hoover, Paul
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Huchel, Peter
Hughes, Peter
Huidobro, Vicente
Hummelt, Norbert
Infante, Judith
Ingelmo, Luis
Islam, Nazifa
Jackson, W. D
Jacob, Max
Jaeger, Peter
Jaffin, David
James, John
Jana, Juli
Janssen, Sasja
Johnson, David Hackbridge
Johnson, Kent
Jope, Norman
Jordan, Andrew
Joyce, Trevor
Juhász, Ferenc
Kandinsky, Vasily
Kasid, Abdulkareem
Kavounas, Alice
Kelder, Cralan
Kennedy, Andrew Karpati
Kennedy, David
Kent, Aaron
Khursheed, Bridget
Kling, Thomas
Knight, Kenny
Kolleritsch, Alfred
Kolmar, Gertrud
Kotowicz, Zbigniew
Kozer, José
Kuhl, Nancy
Kuhn, Philip
Authors L to N
Land-Reeves, Charles
Langley, R.F.
Larkin, Maryrose
Larkin, Peter
Law, Sarah
Lawrence, D.H.
Leader, Mary
Leahy, Anna
Lehóczky, Ágnes
Lessing, Karin
Levy, John
Lew, Emma
Lewis, Erica
Lightman, Ira
Litvinova, Natalia
Livshits, Benedikt
Lloyd, David
Locke, A.J.
Loose, Gerry
López Colomé, Pura
López Velarde, Ramón
Lopez, Helen
Lopez, Tony
Lovelace, Richard
Lowenstein, Tom
Loydell, Rupert M
Machado, Antonio
Macneacail, Aonghas
MacSweeney, Barry
Magi, Jill
Mai Cheng
Maillard, Phil
Mallarmé, Stéphane
Mandelstam, Osip
Manrique, Jorge
Marrin, Aubrie
Marriott, D.S.
Marsh, Simon
Martial
Martin, Camille
Martín Gijón, Mario
Massey, Joseph
Mateer, John
Matsumoto, Lila
Matthias, John
Mayer, So
McAlpine, Erica
McIlroy, Ruth
McKay, Becka Mara
Meadows, Deborah
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna
Mellors, Anthony
Mendelssohn, Anna
Mendiola, Victor Manuel
Messo, George
Middleton, Christopher
Milán, Eduardo
Milbank, John
Militello, Jennifer
Miller, Alice
Miller, David
Mills, Billy
Minor, William
Mishol, Agi
Moga, Eduardo
Monk, Geraldine
Montague, John
Moore, Helen
Moritz, Alfred
Moure, Erin
Muckle, John
Muñoz Rojas, José Antonio
Naylor, Paul
Nerval, Gérard de
Nikolaou, Paschalis
Noon, Alistair
Núñez, Aníbal
Authors 0 to S
O'Brien, Geoffrey
O'Mahony, Niamh
O'Toole, Eliza
Odelius, Kristy
Oliver, Douglas
Olson, Toby
Orozco, Gaspar
Oswald, Peter
Overall, Sonia
Owens, Richard
Owens, Rochelle
Özmen, Gonca
Palacios, Manuela
Papageorgiou, Fani
Parker, Richard
Parmar, Sandeep
Paterson, Alasdair
Pato, Chus
Pearson, Ted
Peck, John
Peet, Christian
Perchik, Simon
Pérez, Omar
Perril, Simon
Pessoa, Fernando
Peyrou, Mariano
Phillips, John
Philpott, Peter
Pizarnik, Alejandra
Poplavsky, Boris
Presley, Frances
Prynne, J.H.
Rakusa, Ilma
Randell, Elaine
Ransford, Tessa
Reckin, Anna
Redgrove, Peter
Reed, Jeremy
Rehm, Pam
Reyes, Alfonso
Riley, John
Riley, Peter
Rilke, Rainer Maria
Rinck, Monika
Rivas, Manuel
Rivera, Eléna
Robinson, Peter
Robles, Jaime
Rodríguez, Claudio
Rodríguez Núñez, Víctor
Rodney, Janet
Roffé, Mercedes
Ronen, Diti
Rose, Gillian
Rosen, Claus von
Rosenberg, David
Roy, Sumana
Rudolf, Anthony
Rushmer, David
Russo, Linda
Ryan, Gig
Saloman, Wendy
Samoilovich, Daniel
Sampaolesi, Mario
Sampson, Julie
Sampson, Sam
Samuels, Lisa
Sánchez Robayna, Andrés
Sashe, Alexandra
Saunders, Lesley
Saxton, Robert
Scroggins, Mark
Scully, Maurice
Seed, Ian
Seed, John
Seiler, Lutz
Selby, Spencer
Selerie, Gavin
Semmens, Aidan
Sergeant, David
Sheerman, Lucy
Shepherdson, Nathan
Sheppard, Robert
Shuttle, Penelope
Silliman, Ron
Simms, Colin
Skoulding, Zoë
Smith, Michael
Smith, Pete
Smith, Simon
Sneeden, Brian
Snyder, Tupa
Sobin, Gustaf
Solà, Irene
Sousa, Luís Amorim de
Speaker, Mary Austin
Spence, Steve
Squires, Geoffrey
Stasiak, M.
Steensen, Sasha
Stone, Will
Stonecipher, Donna
Strang, Em
Strode, William
Studzinska, Agnieszka
Suckling, Sir John
Sutherland, Janet
Sutherland-Smith, James
Swensen, Cole
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
Authors T to Z
Tabios, Eileen
Tal, Hadassa
Tarlo, Harriet
Tarn, Nathaniel
Taylor, Andrew
Taylor, Mervyn
Teitelboim, Volodia
Thompson, Jon
Thompson, Luke
Thompson, Nathan
Thorson, Maureen
Thrilling, Isobel
Thurston, Scott
Torrance, Chris
Treadwell, Elizabeth
Trivedi, Amish
Troup, Siriol
Tsvetaeva, Marina
Turnbull, Gael
Ujevic, Tin
Vaage, Lars Amund
Vaiciunaite, Judita
Vallejo, César
van Bastelaere, Dirk
Vangelisti, Paul
Vas Dias, Robert
Veli, Orhan
Villacañas, Juan Antonio
Virgil
Viti, Christina
Vitkauskas, Lina ramona
Vogel, Molly
Volkow, Veronica
Walker, Laura
Wall, Alan
Walsh, Catherine
Watson, Craig
Watts, Carol
Watts, Stephen
Wearne, Alan
Wehle, Ellen
Weinberger, Eliot
Weiss, Mark
Welch, John
Wevill, David
Wheale, Nigel
White, Petra
Whyte, Christopher
Wiggins, Ruth
Wigman, Menno
Wilkinson, John
Wilkinson, Judith
Williams, JL
Winkler, Ron
Wu, Duncan
Wyatt, Sir Thomas
Yang Lian
Young, Augustus
Zand, Michael
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I was born in Oxford in 1956. My mother was born in the Claddach, Galway—an impoverished Catholic ghetto without electricity, running water or sewers, situated outside the city. My father's people came from Redhill, in Surrey. I went to local comprehensive schools and, for a while, to Sunday school at the convent. For several months it was my ambition to become the big nun who sang "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" in The Sound of Music. I had a couple of years doing a range of disparate jobs (milkman, stagehand, hiring out boats, gardening, landscaping, playing guitar in a bar, building, house renovation) and travelling in Europe—especially around Alpine regions—before going to Cheltenham Art College for a year.

I spent a year in the Isles of Scilly—reading, growing daffs and spuds and shooting rabbits with a Czech shotgun. I did a degree in English, from 1978 to 1981, at what was then the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology. It was in that period that I came across the poets who have influenced me most. These included Americans such as Ashbery, Tom Waits and O'Hara; contemporary European poets (some of whom I heard read at the Cambridge Poetry Festival—who was it who had just died?

A translator read his poems then brought on a tape-recorder, pressed play, then walked into the dark wings as the poet's voice occupied the empty stage); and writers closer to home: David Chaloner, Andrew Crozier, Roy Fisher, John James, Barry MacSweeney, Doug Oliver, Peter Riley and John Welch. And countless more, of course. I particularly liked Pasolini and his description of himself as a Catholic Marxist. After doing an M.Litt. in Modern Poetry at Stirling, I moved to Italy in the autumn of 1983. I lived and worked there until 1991, mainly in Rome. For me it is still full of more sacred sites than are listed in the guide books, including every stop on the underground.

John Welch published my first poems as The Interior Designer's Late Morning in 1983. His Many Press also did Bar Magenta (1986): half of the poems were mine; half were by Simon Marsh (who has been based in Milan for over 20 years now). Peter Riley brought out my Odes on St. Cecilia's Day as one of his Poetical Histories in 1990. Then the Many Press published The Metro Poems in 1992 – one poem for each of the stations of the Rome metro. Rod Mengham did two Equipage booklets in 1995: Psyche in the Gargano and Paul Klee's Diary. Andy Brown published Keith Tippett Plays Tonight as a Maquette chapbook in 1999. Salt did Blueroads: Selected Poems in 2003. There were two chapbooks in 2006: Minor Yours , from Oystercatcher Press, and Sound Signals Advising of Presence from infernal methods.

I've been lucky enough to be involved in some memorable readings over the years: with David Chaloner, Helen MacDonald and Roger Langley at the Cambridge Conferences of Contemporary Poetry; with bass player Simon Fell at SubVoicive; with guitarist Ron McElroy at the Diorama Gallery; with John Welch, Simon Marsh, Nigel Wheale and Peter Riley on several occasions, in various locations.

Music, painting and writing have been equally important to me and I tried for years to sustain an active involvement in all those fields, as well as earning a living by teaching. The crunch eventually came in spring 2006: I decided to stuff my paints and instruments in the loft and focus on the writing.

The results have included The Pistol Tree Poems (a collaboration with Simon Marsh which is ongoing and has since been collected in a Shearsman edition in 2011); Berlioz (serialised on Intercapillary Space ); Italia (published by Liminal Pleasures); The Sardine Tree (a life of Miró); From the Green Hill (based on the work of veteran jazz trumpeter Tomasz Stanko); and the Shearsman books Nistanimera, The Summer of Agios Dimitrios and Selected Poems.

I live on the Norfolk coast, with my wife Lynn, in a coastguard cottage which is creeping ever closer to the cliff edge. The views are increasingly breathtaking.

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