MARGARET CAMERON'S works, situated somewhere between performance art and theatre, have been widely performed in Australia.  These include Things Calypso Wanted to Say! produced by ABC Radio (1998) and published in Performing the Unnameable (ed by Richard Allen and Karen Pearlman Currency Press 1998), first performed at La Mama Theatre, touring Australia then at the Ludwig Forum for International Art, Germany; Part Two Calypso published by Pascoe Publishing Australian Short Stories and ABC Radio; The Mind's a Marvellous Thing! La Mama Theatre and ABC Radio (1997). Knowledge and Melancholy was short-listed for 1997 Victorian Premiers Literary Awards and was first performed at La Mama Theatre & Dancehouse, Melbourne (1997), then at The Zachary Scott Theatre, Austin Texas in collaboration with The Deborah Hay Dance Company (1998).  Bang! A Critical Fiction! was produced by The Playbox Theatre Melbourne along with Knowledge and Melancholy  (2001). Currency Press published both works in association with Playbox Theatre Melbourne (Inside 01 Anthology). Margaret lives in Melbourne and works as an actor, director, writer and teacher. In 1998 she received The Gloria Dawn and Gloria Payten Fellowship and the 1998 Eva Czajor Memorial Award For Female Directors and is current  recipient  of The Australia Council Theatre Fellowship 2005/6. In July/August 2005 the proscenium was presented in  Magdalena USA, Providence Rhode Island and The Articulate Practitioner / Articulating Practice, Aberystwyth University, Wales. She has an MA in Performance Studies at Victoria University, Melbourne. 

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BRIAN COFFEY was born near Dublin in 1905. He attended Clongowes Wood College, then University College, Dublin, where his father was President. His poems appeared first in student publications, then in Poems (1930) which was co-authored by his friend Denis Devlin. Coffey graduated from University College, Dublin, with an M.Sc., and did research in Paris in the early thirties in physical chemistry. Later he completed his doctoral studies at Paris in philosophy. He continued to write poetry during his studies, encouraged by Beckett, Devlin, and MacGreevy. He married in 1938, the year his collection Third Person was published. He spent the war years in England, After the war he taught philosophy for five years at St. Louis University, Missouri, then returned to England with his family. He taught mathematics in London schools until 1972. His translation of Mallarmé's Coup de Dés was published in 1965, and of Neruda's love poems in 1973. Coffey's Selected Poems was published in 1971; his long poem Advent was published in the Irish University Review in 1975. Death of Hektor, a poem with illustrations by S. W. Hayter, was published in 1978 and Chanterelles: Short Poems 1971-1983 in 1985.

MTC CRONIN has published numerous books and  booklets of poetry, the most recent being beautiful, unfinished ~ PARABLE/SONG/CANTO/POEM (Salt Publishing, UK, 2003). Her Talking to Neruda’s Question published in 2001 by Vagabond Press, is being translated into Spanish by the poet, Juan Garrido Salgado, and a collection of her work is being translated into Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian by Tatjana Lukic. She is currently working on her doctorate, The Law of Love Letters ~ Prose, Poems, Law & Desire, at UTS. Her  book <1 ? 100> (Shearsman Press, UK) won the 2005 Victorian Premier's Prize for poetry.

ALEX DAVIS lectures in English at Uuniversity College Cork; he is the author of a study of Denis Devlin and has edited several collections of essays on modernist and Irish poetry.  He is currently editing the Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry.

ELIOT FINTUSHEL has been a showman and writer for twenty-five years.  He has won two NEA Solo Performer Awards, and Nebula and Sturgeon nominations for short fiction.  His daughter, Ariel is nineteen, beautiful, and brilliant. At three, he witnessed Michael Levitt sit on a big worm in a sandbox.  Since then, nothing of note, but his novel Breakfast With The Ones You Love will be out from Bantam/Dell in the fall of 2007.

DOMINIC FOX was born in Bristol in 1974, grew up in Somerset and Herefordshire, studied English Literature at Lincoln College, Oxford,failed to complete a PhD on Geoffrey Hill at De Montfort University, and now works as a computer programmer in Northampton where he lives with his wife Sarah and two small children. New Half Cocks (fifty-word
poems) are periodically added to his blog at codepoetics.com/poetix.

ANAMARÍA CROWE SERRANO is Irish and lives in Dublin with her family. She has worked as a freelance translator, reader for the blind, teacher of Spanish language and translation at Dublin City University and in Trinity College Dublin. For kicks she weaves in and out of English, Spanish and Italian and has published several translations of poetry including Valerio Magrelli's Instructions on How to Read a Newspaper, for whose translation she won 3rd prize with Riccardo Duranti at the BCLA/BCLT Translation Competition in 2002. She also writes poetry and short stories, having received awards from the Arts Council of Ireland for her work in this area. Some of her poems have appeared in Storie, Pagine, Rattapallax, the Red Pagoda Press series, Jacket, Default and Shearsman. Her latest collection of poems, Paso Doble, written as a poetic dialogue with the Italian poet Annamaria Ferramosca, will be published in March 2006 by Empiria. In 2003, she published her first collection of short stories, Dall'altra parte (Leconte) and a one-act play, The Interpreter (Delta3 Edizioni). With Riccardo Duranti she has written Behind the Tapestry, a historical novel on the life of Thomas Shelton, the first translator of Don Quijote.

DENIS DEVLIN was born of Irish parents in 1908 in Greenock Scotland. He grew up in Dublin and was educated at Belvedere and University College, Dublin where he took his M.A. in 1930. Devlin continued his studies Munich and Paris before teaching in the English Dept. of University College, Dublin (1933-1935). Devlin then joined Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, in which he had a very distinguished career. He held important diplomatic posts in the United States, was Minister Plenipotentiary to Italy, then to Turkey, and ambassador to Italy. Devlin published three collections of translations of the French poet St. John Perse: Rains (1945), Snows (1945), and Exile and Other Poems (1949). His own published collections of poetry include Poems (with Brian Coffey, 1930), Intercessions (193 7), Lough Derg and Other Poems (1946), and the posthumous Selected Poems (1963), Collected Poems (1964), and The Heavenly Foreigner (1967). The definitive Collected Poems (1989) and his Translations Into English (1992) were published by The Dedalus Press, Dublin. When Devlin died in Dublin in 1959 an award for poetry was inaugurated to commemorate him.

FERGAL GAYNOR was educated at Swansea, Sheffield and Cork, where he received the third degree for a dissertation on alternative histories of modernism. He is an independent scholar, writer and member of the art-intervention group 'art / not art', with whom he co-curated the 'Cork Caucus' in 2005. His poetry has been published in Salzburg Poetry Review, The Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Freeverse, the sHop, etc.

MATTHEW GEDEN was born and brought up in the English Midlands, moving to Ireland in 1990. He is co-founder of the SoundEye International Poetry Festival in Cork and has had poems published in numerous magazines and journals.

CHRIS GOODE is a writer and performance maker based in London. As a theatre artist his recent credits include Neutrino (with Unlimited Theatre, 2001); Napoleon in Exile (2002) and Past the Line Between the Land (2003), both with Camden People’s Theatre; and Escapology (2004) and Homemade (2005), with his own company Signal to Noise. Solo performances include Kiss of Life (2002), and We Must Perform A Quirkafleeg! (forthcoming, 2006). He has also performed works from the canon of avant garde poetry and performance writing, notably in the anthology pieces Mixed Ape (2005, with Jamie Wood) and Yeah Boom: A Christopher Knowles Reader (2006). He has collaborative partnerships with the performance artists Theron Schmidt (under the name Exit Strategy) and Jeremy Hardingham (as COAT). As a poet he has published three chapbooks with Barque, most recently No Son House (2004); readings include Sub Voicive, Crossing the Line and the first Cambridge Poetry Summit. He was also the curator of Total Writing London, two international festivals of experimental poetry and music at Camden People’s Theatre in 2003-04.

GEORGE HUNKA is a theatre writer who lives in New York. His play In Public will be presented in New York in October, and he currently writes about theatre for the New York Times and other publications. He also maintains Superfluities, a blog about theatre, drama and culture at ghunka.com.

TREVOR JOYCE co-founded New Writers' Press in Dublin with Michael Smith. A collected poems, with the first dream of fire they hunt the cold, was published by Shearsman in 2001. Forthcoming in 2006 are Courts of Air and Earth (Shearsman) and What's in Store (The Gig). Co-founder and director of the SoundEye Festival since 1997, he is a Fulbright Scholar and a member of Aosdána. Ana was written with the help of a fellowship from the Ballinglen Arts Foundation.

DANIEL KEENE was born in Australia in 1955.  His multi-award winning plays have been acclaimed throughout Australia, in the United States and Poland.  Since the late 1990s there have been more than 50 productions of his work in France, and he is now considered one of the most significant contemporary playwrights in European theatre. He has won the South Australian Premier's Prize for  Drama, the Victorian Premier's Prize for  Drama (twice), the Wal Cherry Play of the Year, The New Dramatist's Award, New York and the NSW Premier's Prize for Literature (best play) twice.  The 2002 production of his play Terminus, directed by Laurent Laffargue at the TNT in Toulouse and the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, won the coveted Le Prix Pierre Jean Jacques Gaultier award for best direction.  Website: danielkeene.com

DAVID LLOYD was born in Dublin in 1955 and now lives in Los Angeles, teaching at the University of Southern California.  Writer and critic, he has published three books of poetry: Taropatch (Oakland: Jimmy’s House of Knowledge, 1985), Coupures (Dublin: hardPressed Poetry, 1987), and Change of State (Berkeley: Cusp Books, 1993). 

THOMAS MACGREEVY was horn in Tarbert, Co. Kerry, Ireland, in 1893. Between the two world wars he worked as a critic, essayist, translator and lecturer in Dublin, London and Paris. His poems and articles appeared in many leading European journals and a collection of poetry, titled simply Poems, was published in London in 1934. He wrote several books of art and literary criticism and in 1950 was appointed director of the National Gallery of Ireland, a post he held until 1963. He died in Dublin in 1967, and his Collected Poems was published in 1971. 'What more can I say but yet again how much I admire Tom MacGreevy's verse and deplore the grudging recognition it has received.' - Samuel Beckett.  'These poems are memorabilia of someone I might have known and they create for me something of his world and of himself. It is possible to see that you were...a young man eager to be at the heart of his time.' - Wallace Stevens.

MEDBH MCGUCKIAN was born in Belfast IN 1950 and educated at a Dominican convent and Queen's University, Belfast. She has worked as a teacher and an editor and is a former Writer in Residence at Queen's University, Belfast (1985-8). Her first published poems appeared in two pamphlets, Single Ladies: Sixteen Poems and Portrait of Joanna, in 1980, the year in which she received an Eric Gregory Award. In 1981 she co-published Trio Poetry 2 with fellow poets Damian Gorman and Douglas Marshall, and in 1989 she collaborated with Nuala Archer on Two Women, Two Shores. Medbh McGuckian's first major collection, The Flower Master (1982), which explores post-natal breakdown, was awarded a Rooney prize for Irish Literature, an Ireland Arts Council Award (both 1982) and an Alice Hunt Bartlett Award (1983). She is also the winner of the 1989 Cheltenham Prize for her collection On Ballycastle Beach . SHE has also edited an anthology, The Big Striped Golfing Umbrella: Poems by Young People from Northern Ireland (1985) for the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, written a study of the car in the poetry of Seamus Heaney, entitled Horsepower Pass By! (1999), and has translated into English (with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin) The Water Horse (1999), a selection of poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. A volume of Selected Poems: 1978-1994 was published in 1997, and her latest collection is The Book of the Angel (2004) .She was awarded the 2002 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem) for her poem 'She is in the Past, She Has This Grace'. 

SOPHIE MAYER is the author of Marsh Fear/Fen Tiger (Salt), These are the Licks (Fair Ladies), and junkmaildays (above/ground). She spends her time looking for non-institutionalised forms of expression in the academy, selling books at the Toronto Women's Bookstore, thinking about films for NOW magazine, and writing a blog at www.shebytches.com.

KUBA MOKROSINSKI was born in 1980 in Lodz, Poland, and is a graduate of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (English philology). He has published short stories and poetry as well as translating extensively from English. His first book collection of poems, karate kon (karate horse), was published in 2004. He is interested in combining poetry with music in an endeavour to reach out to a wide audience - has been cooperating with a Poznanian band Snowman by means of writing lyrics and goddamn lullabies for them, with the latter as the most obvious one-and-only source of money in the predictable future. Recently he has written a script for an alternative theatre and codirected a play staged at the Malta International Theatre Festival in Poznan, Poland. He is at present working on a first antinovel as well as his MA paper on philosophy. 

FRED MOTEN teaches in the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and is the author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003) and of two chapbooks, Arkansas (Pressed Wafer Press, 2000) and, with Jim Behrle, Poems (Pressed Wafer Press, 2002).

MAGGIE O'SULLIVAN was born in Lincolnshire, 20th July, 1951 to Irish parents. Poet, artist, editor and publisher, she has performed her work and published internationally since the late 1970's. Worked for BBC-TV in London, continuously from1973 and 1988, latterly on arts documentary films, notably as production assistant/researcher on the Arena series. In 1988, she moved to the Pennines outside Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire. For over a decade she ran her celebrated Writing in Action Adult Education/WEA weekly classes in Hebden Bridge. Held many residencies in a range of educational settings, as well as tutoring in creative writing and poetry for Open College of the Arts correspondence courses for last 11 years. Involved in numerous, ongoing performance/workshop presentations. 

SIMON PERCHIK is an attorney whose poems have appeared in Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Masthead Literary Arts Magazine, LinQ, Jacket and elsewhere. Readers interested in learning more are invited to read Magic, Illusion and Other Realities at www.geocities.com/simonthepoet which site lists a complete bibliography.

HUGUES C. PERNATH (1931-1975) was a member of the Belgian "Pink Poets" group of the 1960s and 1970s.  Working in Antwerp in the Flemish language, he gained a reputation for dandyism and a dense, hermetic and mannerist poetic style that led to comparisons with, among others, Gongora and Baudelaire.  The cryptic nature of his poetry, along with his tendency towards allegory and abstraction, are reminiscent of the Baroque melancholia that Walter Benjamin analyzes in The Origins of German Tragic Drama. More, perhaps, than any other post-war Dutch poetry, Pernath's poems push the limits of syntax and figure, placing him in a line with that other Antwerp poet of modernist experiment, Paul Van Ostaijen. 

R. RADHAKRISHNAN is Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies and Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.  Author of Diasporic Mediations: BetweenHome and Location (University of Minnesota Press, 1996), Theory in an Uneven World  (Blackwell, 2003), and History, the Human and the World Between (Duke, forthcoming December 2006), he has published a volume of poems in Tamil, Moved, But Not In Time.  He is also a translator of contemporary Tamil fiction into English. He has published poems in English as well, but that was a long time ago.

KENJI SARITORI is a Japanese cyberpunk writer who is currently bombarding the internet with wave upon wave of highly experimental, uncompromising, progressive, intense prose. His is a writing style that not only breaks with tradition, it severs all cords, and can only really be compared to the kind of experimental writing techniques employed by the Surrealists, William Burroughs and Antonin Artaud. Embracing the image mayhem of the digital age, his relentless prose is nonsensical and extreme, avant-garde and confused, with precedence given to twisted imagery, pace and experimentation over linear narrative and character development. Blood Electric (Creation Books) was acclaimed by David Bowie. His latest book is GENEDUB #1, 2, 3. His first CD now available. http://www.kenjisiratori.com 

MAURICE SCULLY was born in Dublin in 1952 & educated at Trinity College Dublin. Founder & editor of The Beau magazine & The Beau Press in the early '80's & co-ordinator of The Beau Events, a series of talks, readings, shows & lectures by painters, poets, composers, etc during the same period & the Coelacanth Press in mid-'80's. Books include 5 Freedoms of Movement, The Basic Colours, Steps, Priority & Livelihood. Two new books - Sonata & Tig - are due from Reality Street Editions & Shearsman Books respectively this year. These 2 books complete a long writing project of 8 books & 3 booklets spanning 24 years. The present contribution is from Tig.

MICHAEL SMITH founded the New Writers' Press in 1967, and has been responsible for the publication of more than sixty books and magazines. Through New Writers' Press he has promoted the modernist tradition in Irish poetry, publishing the work of Thomas MacGreevy, Denis Devlin, Brian Coffey, Niall Montgomery, Charles Donnelly, Anthony Cronin, Michael Hartnett, Paul Durcan, Trevor Joyce, and a host of other poets. He was founder/editor of the influential literary magazine The Lace Curtain and for many years now  has been a regular literary reviewer and features writer for The Irish Times.His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines both in Ireland and abroad and in many important anthologies of contemporary Irish poetry, including The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry, edited by Derek Mahon and Peter Fallon, and Contemporary Irish Poetry, edited by Anthony Bradley (University of California Press, 1980, 1988). In 2001, he was the first Irish recipient of the European Academy Medal for distinguished work in the translation of poetry, awarded by the European Academy of Poetry.

GEOFFREY SQUIRES (b.1942) grew up in Co.Donegal and read English at Cambridge. He has lived and worked in various countries and now lives in England. His main publications are Drowned Stones (New Writers Press, Dublin, 1975) Landscapes and Silences (New Writers Press, 1996) and the selected Untitled and other Poems1975-2002 (Wild Honey Press, Bray, 2004). He has also translated French and Persian poetry; some of the latter is included in World Poetry (ed. Washburn and Major) Norton, New York, 1998. 

CÉSAR VALLEJO was born in 1892 in Santiago de Chuco, a small town in north central Peru, the youngest of eleven children. He completed his secondary schooling in 1908 and entered the School of Philosophy and Letters in 1910, but was forced to drop out for lack of money. He eventually achieved his degree in 1917. In 1920 he returned to his home village and after a violent incident in which a subprefect's aide was shot at the general store, he was accused of being an "intellectual instigator" and was jailed for almost six months. The incident was the catalyst for his departure from Peru two years later, when he left Peru for Paris. He lived in Europe for the rest of his life in more or less continuous poverty, unable to return to Peru for fear of being arrested, and wrote the poems which make up his three posthumous books and a large number of plays. He died in 1938. During his life he published two books of poetry: Los Heraldos Negros (The Black Heralds) in 1918, and Trilce (1922). His posthumous poems comprise three books: Nómina de huesos (1923-36), Sermón de la barbarie (1936-38) and Espana, aparte de mí este cáliz (1937-38). Michael Smith and Valentino Gianuzzi's Selected Poems of Vallejo will be published later this year by Shearsman, and  the complete Black Heralds along with juvenilia will be published by Shearsman either this year or next; this will mean that Gianuzzi and Smith will have translated all of Vallejo's poems.

STEPHEN VINCENT - poet, walker, teacher, editor & publisher - lives in San Francisco.  “Ghost Walks” are from a recent series that explore combinations of photographs and texts. Most recent book publications include Triggers, from Shearsman Books  and Sleeping With Sappho, from faux. Vincent also maintains a popular blog of commentary, poetry and photographs (http://stephenvincent.net/blog/). 

CATHERINE WALSH  was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1964, and currently lives in Limerick with her partner and two children. She co-edits hardPressed Poetry and the Journal with Billy Mills. Her books include Pitch (Pig Press, 1994), Idir Eatortha & Making Tents (Invisible Books, London, 1996) and, most recently,  City West, (Shearsman 2006). See http://gofree.indigo.ie/~hpp/

WALT WHITMAN (1819-1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. His most famous work is the collection of poetry, Leaves of Grass.Born into a family of nine children in Long Island and raised in Brooklyn, Walt Whitman began his career as a journalist and editor. Whitman himself cited his assignment from the Aurora to cover a series of lectures given by Ralph Waldo Emerson were a turning point in his thinking.  After losing his job as editor of the Daily Eagle because of his abolitionist sentiment and his support of the free-soil movement, Whitman self-published an early edition of Leaves of Grass in 1855. It was not until 1864 that Leaves of Grass found a publisher other than Whitman. That 1860 re-issue was greatly enlarged, containing two new sections, “Children of Adam” and “Calamus.” This revising of Leaves of Grass would continue for the rest of his life, and by 1892, Leaves of Grass had been reissued in more than seven different versions. In 1871, Whitman published his first book of prose, Democratic Vistas. Late in his life Whitman published two volumes of literary criticism: November Boughs (1888) and Good-Bye My Fancy (1891). In 1873, Whitman suffered a stroke and never fully recovered.  After Whitman's stroke, his fame grew substantially both at home and abroad. Most of this was stimulated by several prominent British writers, including William Rossetti and Anne Gilchrist, criticising the American academy for not recognising his talents. Walt Whitman died on March 26 ,1892, and was buried in Camden's Harleigh Cemetery. 

AUGUSTUS YOUNG was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1943 and educated at the universities of Cork, Dundee and London. As an epidemiologist he has published many scientific papers and contributes to textbooks. He has also published seven volumes of poetry, and two volumes of prose, Light Years (London Magazine Editions, 2002) and Storyline (Eliott & Thompson, London, 2005). He is considered by many as Ireland’s only poet in the Eastern European manner. An Irish Brecht.