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Caroline Bird was born in 1986. She grew up in Leeds and attended the Steiner School in York before moving to London in 2001. She won the Poetry Society's Simon Elvin Young Poet of the Year Award two years running (1999 and 2000), won an Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and in 2008 was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize for young writers. Her first collection, Looking Through Letterboxes, a topical, zesty and formally delightful collection of poems built on the traditions of fairy tale, fantasy and romance, was published by Carcanet in 2002. Her second collection, Trouble Came to the Turnip, appeared in September 2006. Caroline Bird’s own website can be visited at www.carolinebird.co.uk.

Forthcoming Book: Watering Can (November 2009) Local Interest: London & Yorkshire, England

Poets for Readings with new publications in 2009-2010

CAROLINE BIRD

Gillian Clarke is currently National Poet of Wales. Clarke is a poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator (from Welsh). She edited the Anglo-Welsh Review from 1975 to 1984, and has taught creative writing in primary and sec-ondary schools and at university level. She is a former presi-dent of Ty Newydd, the writers' centre in North Wales which she co-founded in 1990. Since 1994 she has been a tutor in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan. Clarke was the inaugural Capital Poet for Cardiff 2005-6. Her poetry is studied by GCSE and A Level students throughout Britain. She has given poetry readings and lectures in Europe and the United States, and her work has been translated into ten languages. Gillian Clarke’s own website can be visited at www.gillianclarke.co.uk.

Forthcoming Book: A Recipe for Water (April 2009) Recent Book: At the Source: A Writer’s Year (May 2008) Local Interest: Ceredigion, Wales

GILLIAN CLARKE

Fred D’Aguiar was born in London, grew up in Guyana and returned to England when he was a teenager. He trained as a psychiatric nurse before reading African and Caribbean Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Fred D'Aguiar was Judith E. Wilson Fellow at Cambridge University from 1989-90 and has taught in the United States since 1992; at Amherst College, Massachusetts, Bates College in Lewiston, Maine and the University of Miami. He is currently Professor of English and Gloria D. Smith Professor Of Africana Studies at Virginia Tech State University. His previous poetry collections include Mama Dot (1985), British Subjects (1993) and Bill of Rights (1998); his first novel, The Longest Memory, won the Whitbread first novel award in 1994.

Forthcoming Book: Continental Shelf (May 2009) Local Interest: Virginia, USA ; London, England

FRED D’AGUIAR

Jane Draycott's most recent collections are Prince Rupert's Drop and The Night Tree (Carcanet/OxfordPoets), both Poetry Book Society Recommendations, and Tideway (Two Rivers Press). Nominated three times for the Forward Prize for Poetry, she was winner of the Keats-Shelley Prize in 2002, and named as one of the PBS/Arts Council’s Next Generation poets in 2004. A recent Stephen Spender Prize-winner (2008), she is currently working on a contemporary version of the medieval dream-vision Pearl. She teaches on the postgraduate writing programmes at Oxford University and the University of Lancaster. Jane Draycott's own website can be visited at www.janedraycott.org.uk.

Forthcoming Book: Over (April 2009) Local Interest: Oxford, England

JANE DRAYCOTT

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Antony Dunn was born in 1973. He won a Newdigate Prize in 1995 and an Eric Gregory Award in 2000. His first collection of poems, Pilots and Navigators, was published in 1998, making him the youngest poet on the OxfordPoets list. His second book, Flying Fish, was published by Carcanet / OxfordPoets in 2002. Antony Dunn lives in York where he works for York Theatre Royal. He has worked on a number of translation projects with poets from Holland, Hungary, China and Israel, and was Poet-in-Residence at the University of York for 2006. He also writes for the theatre and his plays include Dog Blue, Goose Chase and Shepherds’ Delight. Antony Dunn's own website can be found at www.antonydunn.org

Forthcoming Book: Bugs (September 2009) Local Interest: York, England

ANTONY DUNN

Elaine Feinstein is an internationally renowned poet, novelist, biographer and translator. She has written fourteen novels, many radio plays, television dramas, and five critically acclaimed biogra-phies, including those of Marina Tsvetaeva (1987), Pushkin (1998) and Ted Hughes (2001; winner of the Marsh Biography Prize). Her versions of the poems of Marina Tsvetaeva were first published in 1971 and her Collected Poems and Translations (2002) was a Po-etry Book Society Special Commendation. She has served as a judge for the numerous Awards including the Rossica Award for Literature translated from Russian, and in 1995 was chairman of the judges for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her latest poetry collection, Talking to the Dead, was published to great acclaim in March 2007. Her most recent book, The Russian Jerusalem (2008), is an imaginative journey through the literary landscape of Stalin's Russia. Elaine Feinstein’s own website can be found at www.elainefeinstein.com.

Recent Book: Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva, as translator (June 2009) Local Interest: London, England

ELAINE FEINSTEIN

Nigel Forde was born in 1944 and educated at Oxford University. Originally intending to be a musician, he sang in the Collegium Musicum and played in the University Orchestra, the St Catherine's String Quartet and the Dolmetsch Ensemble for the Haslemere Festival. Music is still an important part in his poetry. Forde then became an actor in the York Theatre Royal Company and began writing, directing and composing for the theatre. Having written for and performed with several companies, he co-founded Riding Lights Theatre Company, now resident at Friargate Theatre, York. Nigel Forde’s own webpage can be found at www.poetrypf.co.uk/nigelfordepage

Forthcoming Book: The Choir Outing (April 2010) Local Interest: York, England

LOUISE GLÜCK Louise Glück was born in 1943 in New York. She started her teaching career in 1971 at Goddard College, Vermont. At present she is a Professor at Williams College and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of seven col-lections of poems and a volume of essays. She has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the Bobbitt National Poetry Prize and the Ambassador's Award for her poetry, as well as the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Non-fiction. Her 2000 collection Vita Nova won the first annual New Yorker Read-ers Award. Her 2006 collection Averno was a finalist for the National Book Award. She is also a former US Poet Laureate. Louise Gluck’s own website can be found at www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/g_l/gluCk/gluck

Forthcoming Book: A Village Life (May 2010) Local Interest: Cambridge, MA, USA

NIGEL FORDE



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Marilyn Hacker was born in New York City in 1942 and now divides her time between New York and Paris. She is a prolific writer and author of several books of poetry, including Winter Numbers (1994), which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award; Selected Poems 1965-1990 (1994), which received the Poets' Prize; Going Back to the River (1990), for which she received a Lambda Literary Award; and Presenta-tion Piece (1974), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets and a National Book Award winner. She is the translator of the French Lebanese poet Vénus Khoury-Ghata and edited The Kenyon Review from 1990-1994.

Forthcoming Book: Alphabets of Sand: Selected Poems by Vénus Khoury- Ghata, as translator (May 2009) Recent Book: Essays on Departure: New & Selected Poems (2006) Local Interest: New York, USA ; Paris, France

MARILYN HACKER

Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine parents. He lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he came to Britain. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating with a first in 1961. From 1963 to 1996 he taught at the University of Sussex, where he is now Research Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities. He has published over a dozen novels, three volumes of short stories and a number of critical books. His plays have been performed throughout Britain and on radio in Britain, France and Germany, and his work has been translated into the major European languages and Arabic. In 2001 he published A Life, a biographical memoir of his mother, the translator and poet Sacha Rabinovitch (London Magazine editions). Gabriel Josipovici’s own website can be visited at www.gabrieljosipovici.org

Forthcoming Books: After and Making Mistakes (August 2009); Heart’s Wing (October 2010) Local Interest: Sussex, England

GABRIEL JOSIPOVICI

Originally from South Africa, Katharine Kilalea moved to London in 2005 to study an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her poems have appeared in books and journals including PN Review, Stand, Magma, Carapace, Pen Pusher and New Coin, and a poem on chairs appeared in Martino Gamper’s design book 100 Chairs in 100 days and its 100 Ways. Her poems lead readers through a landscape in which the lucid angles of a chair might express love more precisely than the lines of a sonnet. As J.M. Coetzee writes, her poems ‘are to be welcomed for their resourceful metaphors, and their general clearsightedness’. She currently lives in London where she works as a journalist. One Eye’d Leigh is her first collection.

Recent Book: One Eye’d Leigh (April 2009) Local Interest: London & East Anglia, England; Cape Town, South Africa

KATHARINE KILALEA

Chris McCully has published three collections of poetry with Carcanet: Time Signatures (1993); Not Only I (1996), and The Country of Perhaps (2003), as well as the best-selling Fly-fishing: A Book of Words (1992). He is also the editor of a collection of essays, The Poet's Voice and Craft (1994), and the translator of Old English Poems and Riddles (2008). Chris is one of the directors of the Modern Literary Archives programme in the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, and is also Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts, University of Manchester. He is married and lives in Amstelveen with a garden and a black labrador, Tess. Chris McCully’s own website can be visited at http://www.chrismccully.co.uk

Forthcoming Book: Polder (July 2009)

Local Interest: Manchester, England; Amstelveen, Holland

CHRIS McCULLY



Paula Meehan was born in 1955 in Dublin, where she still lives. She studied at Trinity College where she was a Writer Fellow of the English Department, and has taught in the United States. She is one of Ireland’s best-loved contem-porary poets. She has written plays for both adults and children and held a creative writing fellowship at University College, Dublin. She has also worked with inner city communities and conducted workshops in prisons. Her awards include the Marten Toonder Prize by the Arts Council and the Butler Award for Poetry by the Irish American Cultural Institute.

Recent Book: Painting Rain (March 2009) Local Interest: Dublin, Ireland

PAULA MEEHAN

Sinéad Morrissey was born in Portadown in 1972 and read English and German at Trinity College, Dublin, from which she took her PhD in 2003. In 1990 she received the Patrick Kavanagh Award for Poetry and in 1996 she won an Eric Gregory Award for the manuscript of her first book, There was Fire in Vancouver (1996). Her second book, Between Here and There (2002) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Award. She has lived and worked in Japan and New Zealand and now lives in Northern Ireland. Her most recent collection, The State of the Prisons, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She was awarded the Michael Hartnett Award for Poetry in June 2005 and Lannan Literary Fellowship in 2007.

Forthcoming Book: Through a Square Window (November 2009) Local Interest: Belfast, Northern Ireland

SINÉAD MORRISSEY

Frank Ormsby was born in 1947 in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh. He describes himself as by nature an ‘anxious optimist’. His work draws on his rural upbring-ing in Co Fermanagh but increasingly reflects a sense of Belfast where has lived since 1998. He is a graduate and postgraduate of Queen’s University, Belfast and has worked as an editor and published three collections of poems. In 1992 he received the Cultural Traditions Awards in memory of John Hewitt and in 2002 the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award from the University of St Thomas in St Paul, Minnesota. Since 1975 he has been Head of English at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution.

Forthcoming Book: Fireflies (October 2009) Local Interest: Belfast, Northern Ireland

FRANK ORMSBY

Jeremy Over lives and works near Cockermouth in West Cumbria. He joined the Manchester Metropolitan Univer-sity Online MA Creative Writing Poetry programme in September 2007. His work was first published in New Poetries II (1999). His first collection was A Little Bit of Bread and No Cheese (2001). He has read his poetry at venues including the Poetry Café, The Troubador Coffee House and Whitechapel Art Gallery in London, the Bolton Octagon Theatre, and the Free University in Berlin. He has led poetry workshops at the University of Essex and at the University of Warwick as a guest writer for the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth. He was the BBC Wildlife Magazine Poet of the Year in 2002.

Forthcoming Book: Deceiving Wild Creatures (September 2009) Local Interest: Cumbria, England

JEREMY OVER



Richard Price was born in 1966 and grew up in Scotland. He trained as a journalist at Napier College, Edinburgh, before studying English at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. The youngest of the Informationist group of poets, he was a founder of the magazines associated with them, Gairfish and Southfields, and the co-founder of the Vennel Press. Price’s first collection, Lucky Day (2005), was short-listed for both the Forward and Whitbread poetry prizes. His second collection, Greenfields, was published by Carcanet in 2007. He is Head of Modern British Collections at the British Library, London and part of the poetry and music ensemble, Mirabeau (www.myspace.com/mirabeauproject). Richard Price’s own website can be visited at www.hydrohotel.net

Forthcoming Book: Rays (October 2009) Local Interest: London, England; Edinburgh & Glasgow, Scotland

RICHARD PRICE

Born in 1931 in Chicago, Frederic Raphael was educated at Charterhouse and St John's College, Cambridge. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1964. The first of his numerous novels was published in 1956; Coast to Coast was published by Orion in 1998. He has adapted his novels The Glittering Prizes (1976) and After the War (1988) for television. He has also written stories, Biographies of Somerset Maugham and Byron. He is a leading screenwriter, whose work includes the Academy Award-winning Darling (1965), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), and the screen-play for Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut.

Recent Books: Ticks and Crosses: Personal Terms IV (November 2008); Petronius’ Satyrica, as translator (January 2009) Local Interest: London, England

FREDERIC RAPHAEL

Fiona Sampson is the editor of Poetry Review and has published fourteen books including poetry, philosophy of language and studies of writing process. Her own poetry collections include Common Prayer (2007). She has been widely translated. She has received the Newdigate Prize, writer’s awards from the Arts Councils of England and Wales and the Society of Authors and, in the United States, the Literary Review’s Charles Angoff Award. ‘Trumpeldor Beach’ was shortlisted for the 2006 Forward Prize for best single poem. Fiona Sampson is internation-ally recognised for her pioneering residencies in health care and contributes to the Guardian, the Irish Times and other publications. Her translations include Jaan Kaplinski, an anthology of younger Central European poets, and Orient Express, of which she was founding editor.

Forthcoming Books: A Century of Poetry Review (October 2009), as editor; new poetry collection (May 2010) Local Interest: London, England

FIONA SAMPSON


C. K. Stead was born in Auckland and has published thirteen collections of poems and two of short stories, eleven novels, six books of literary criticism, and edited a number of texts. His novels are published in New Zealand and Britain, and have been translated into a dozen European languages. His best-known critical work is The New Poetic (1964). His political fantasy, Smith’s Dream (1971), was filmed in 1977 as Sleeping Dogs; two further novels won the fiction category of the New Zealand Book Awards. He has won a number of literary prizes and was awarded a CBE in 1985 for services to New Zealand literature. In 2007 he received his country’s highest award, the Order of New Zealand (limited to twenty holders), one of only two writers to currently hold the honour.

C.K. STEAD

Recent Book: Collected Poems (January 2009) Local Interest: Auckland, New Zealand


Of Armenian descent, Arto Vaun was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has attended the University of Massachusetts Boston, Bennington College, and Harvard University. He has taught at Glasgow University and the University of Massachu-setts, Boston. He was co-founder and co-editor of the literary journal Aspora while living in Los Angeles, co-editor of The Armenian Weekly in Boston, and a correspondent to AIM Maga-zine. He is also a songwriter and musician, releasing albums as Mishima USA and The Kent 100s. In other lives he has worked as an ESL instructor, journalist, salesman, jeweller’s apprentice and a teacher’s aide at Hollywood public schools. He is studying for a PhD in English Literature & Creative Writing at Glasgow University and lives somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, between Scot-land and Boston. Capillarity is Arto Vaun’s first collection.

Recent Book: Capillarity (March 2009) Local Interest: Glasgow, Scotland; Boston, USA

ARTO VAUN

Robert Wells was born in Oxford in 1947. He has worked as a woodman on Exmoor, a teacher in Italy and Iran, and in publishing. He now lives in France. Carcanet have published his books of poetry The Winter's Task (1977) Selected Poems (1986), The Day and other poems (2006) and two verse translations, Virgil's Georgics (1982) and Theocritus's Idylls (1988). 'Robert Wells understands how finely man and nature are moulded to each other...The healing loneliness of hills and waters, and the solitary figures who move among them...are the setting and characters of Wells' poems.'

- George Mackay Brown

Recent Book: Collected Poems and Translations (September 2009) Local Interest: Blois, France

ROBERT WELLS

Matthew Welton was born in Nottingham in 1969 and lives in Manchester. His poetry has appeared in the anthologies First Pressings (Faber) and New Poetries II (Carcanet). He received the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for The Book of Matthew (Carcanet, 2003), which was a Guardian Book of the Year. He was a Hawthornden Fellow in 2004. Matthew collaborates regularly with the com-poser Larry Goves, with whom he was awarded a Jerwood Opera Writing Fellowship in 2008. He lectures in creative writing at the University of Bolton and has gained a reputa-tion as a strong performer of his work. 'a poet who has consistently (but slowly) produced some stunningly beautiful work.' - Dave Gorman, the Observer.

Forthcoming Book: ‘We needed coffee but...’ (July 2009) Local Interest: Manchester, England

MATTHEW WELTON


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