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Douglas Clark was born in 1942 in Darlington to Scottish parents, took a degree in Mathematics at Glasgow University, worked in Computer Support at Bath University until redundancy/retirement in 1993, published six books and two pamphlets of poetry, around 50 poems in the little magazines, writes very little nowadays. He is editor of Lynx: Poetry from Bath

Jan D. Hodge has happily retired from thirty years of small college teaching. He has a particular interest in carmina figurata, and his poems have appeared in South Coast Poetry Journal, Defined Providence, E.L.F., Black Bear Review, and Buckle &, among others. His "Carousel" won the 1997 WordArt prize, and his "Poems to be Traded for Baklava" was the Onionhead Annual chapbook for 1997.

John Kidd lives in Hobart Tasmania. Was a teacher. Recently has written screenplays and is now working on 2 novels. Poetry is presently published mainly in ezines, in US, UK, Switzerland, The Phillipines, Canada, and Australia.

V. Kupriyanov - born in Novosibirsk in 1939, freelance writer and translator, member of the Russian Writers Union (Moscow), and member of the Serbian Writers Union. See http://www.beilharz.de/poetas/kuprijanow/poetry.html for details.

Eleanor Livingstone from Fife works part-time with a legal firm and part-time as a tutor for Creative Writing classes. Her poems appeared last year in Poetry Scotland, Groundswell and The Herald.

Walt McDonald - I was a U.S. Air Force pilot, taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and am Texas Poet Laureate for 2001. Some of my recent books are All Occasions (University of Notre Dame Press, 2000), Blessings the Body Gave and The Flying Dutchman (Ohio State, 1998, 1987), Counting Survivors (Pittsburgh, 1995), Night Landings (Harper & Row, 1989), and After the Noise of Saigon (Massachusetts, 1988). Four books have won Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame (USA).

My poems have been in journals including Envoi, London Review of Books, Orbis, Stand Magazine, Staple, and--in the USA--in APR, The Atlantic Monthly, New York Review of Books, and Poetry.

Nicky Monaghan works in the City (London) and is in the process of finishing her first novel.

Mick Moss is a 47 year old art school graduate and ex music industry drop out. Originally from London, currently living in Liverpool. He has been writing (appalling) verse since his early teens, but during the last four years has taken up writing seriously. To date he has written two and a half novels, two screenplays and various comic sketches for TV. He is actively seeking a literary agent to help in the difficult task of getting his work published. Ambitions - to travel the world and maybe one day meet Mz Right, because he hasn't yet, despite a few near Mrs. Visit his website: http://www.geocities.com/emcsquareduk/

Rosemary Norman - Day job as a librarian. Work at http://www.video.cwc.net

Ken Osborne - Born 1943. Bummed around for 10 years after school then became a Retail Executive and gave up writing for 20. Picked up pen again after early retirement. Collection, "Yawning in the Wind", Outposts 1967 and several magazines and competitions at that time. Recently:- 1st prize Orbis Rhyme International 1996, and Envoi.

Michael Swan writes English language teaching materials for a living, but finds poetry generally more interesting.

R. A. Toy has lived in Cambridge for approximately thirty five years and his been a member of Poetry Circle for a year. Two collections of poetry included in Spotlight Poets, Triumph House publications "Beyond the Stars" and "Colour of the Mind"

Anne Vinden is a psycho-analytic therapist who has felt the need to do less of this in order to write more. She is currently living in Andalucia on a shoestring. Her main focus of interest is poetry but a book is nearing completion. This - called Outsider's Territory - is about all sorts of geographies, personal and other, and includes a flamenco theme.

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