Scott Thurston began writing in the poetry scene situated around Gilbert Adair's Sub-Voicive Poetry reading series and Bob Cobbing's New River Project workshops in London in the late eighties. In 1995 he moved to Poland where he taught English as a foreign language. He returned to the UK in 1997 and completed a Ph.D. on Linguistically Innovative Poetry. He currently lectures in English and Creative Writing at The University of Salford and lives in Liverpool. He edits The Radiator, a journal of contemporary poetics. His books include Turns (with Robert Sheppard) (Ship of Fools/Radiator: Liverpool, 2003), Sleight of Foot (Reality Street Editions: London, 1996) (Selection), State(s)walk(s) (Writers Forum: London, 1994) and Poems Nov 89 - Jun 91 (Writers Forum: London, 1991). Hold: Poems 1994-2004 is due out from Shearsman books in 2006. David Annwn's latest collection of poetry is entitled Bella Fawr's Cabaret. His work 'tabula gratuloria' is to appear with Thomas Ingmire's calligraphy in the San Francisco Harrison Collection. Sean Bonney was born in Brighton, grew up in the north of England, and he now lives in London. He has published a number of pamphlets, and his poems and essays have featured in many of the leading innovative magazines. Known as an exhilarating performer of his work, he has performed in London, Cambridge, Portugal, Prague and New York. A part time lecturer, he has taught at Birkbeck College, Roehampton, and the University of Southampton. He died in a tragic accident in 2019. Chris Goode was for three years the artistic director of Camden People's Theatre, where he curated two editions of the poetry festival Total Writing London. He now works as a freelance theatre maker and writer. As a poet he has published three chapbooks with Barque, most recently No Son House (Barque, 2004). He lives in north London with an imperious cat and three experimental musicians. Bill Griffiths (1948-2007) was born in Middlesex. He began writing poetry and publishing in 1970, benefitting from the guidance of Eric Mottram, Bob Cobbing, and many others on the little press scene. He went on to study Old English at King's College, London, obtaining a PhD in 1987. He was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Northern Studies, Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne and lived in Seaham, County Durham. He died on 13 September 2007. Elizabeth James is a poet and librarian with a research interest in book history. She lives in London and works at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the Word & Image Department. Poetry publications include: Base to Carry (Barque Press, 2004) Recognition (Writers Forum, 1999) Two Renga, in RENGA+ [Collaboration with Peter Manson] (Reality Street, 2002) and Neither the One nor the Other [Collaboration with Frances Presley] (Form Books, 1999). Other publications include: 'Poetry and Experimental Typography' [compiler and main author], in James Bettley, ed., The Art of the Book (V&A Publications, 2001). Christine Kennedy is a Sheffield-based artist and writer. Her publications include Possessions and a new limited edition of Twelve Entries from the Encyclopaedia of Natural Sexual Relations (both The Cherry On The Top Press, 2003). She was a contributor to RENGA (Reality Street, 2002). David Kennedy was born in Leicester in 1959. He co-edited The New Poetry and is the author of New Relations: The Refashioning of British Poetry 1980-1994. He edited the magazine of innovative poetry and poetics The Paper from 2000 to 2004 and publishes widely on contemporary British and Irish poetry. His publications include three collections with Salt; The Dice Cup, translations of Max Jacob's prose poems with Christopher Pilling; the collaboration Eight Excursions with Rupert Loydell; and monographs on Douglas Dunn, on elegy, and on ekphrasis in contemporary British poetry. David lives in Sheffield with his wife, the artist and poet Christine Kennedy. Geraldine Monk was born in Blackburn, Lancashire in 1952. Since first being published in the 1970s she has written six major collections of poetry and numerous chapbooks. Her writing has appeared extensively in the both the UK and the USA. As an extension to her activities in poetry she collaborates with many musicians including Martin Archer, Charlie Collins and Julie Tippetts. A collection of essays on her poetry, The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk, edited by Scott Thurston, was brought out in 2007 by Salt Publishing. Jeff Nuttall was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, in 1933 and grew up in Herefordshire. He trained as a painter in the years following the Second World War and began writing poetry in 1962. He published widely with Writers' Forum, Turret Press, Unicorn Press, Fulcrum, Trigram, Pirate Press, Rivelin and Penguin (Modern Poets No. 12). He taught fine art in schools and polytechnics, and acted in film and television. He lived in Crickhowell, Wales and died in 2004. Frances Presley was born in Derbyshire, and grew up in Lincolnshire and Somerset. She lives in a housing cooperative in north London, and the local fashion trade was the subject of her collaboration with the artist Irma Irsara, Automatic cross stitch (Other Press, 2000). She has also collaborated with the poet Elizabeth James in an email text and performance (Neither the One nor the Other, Form Books, 1999). She has written about her poetic practice and that of other British women poets, and is on the editorial board of How2. Her most recent sequence, Paravane, began with How2 communications post 9/11. This book brings together much of her new and published work since Linocut (Oasis, 1997). Harriet Tarlo teaches Creative Writing at the University of Leeds. She has published essays on modernist and contemporary British and American poets, including Basil Bunting, H.D., Lorine Niedecker and Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Her poetry appears in little magazines and anthologies such as FOIL (Etruscan Books). Her recent books include NAB (Etruscan Books, 2005), Poems 1990-2003 (Shearsman, 2004) and Love/Land (REM Press, 2003) and she is currently working on an academic book on contemporary British radical landscape poetry.
