Les Murray's latest book, Taller When Prone, is published by Carcanet. Another very good title, showing his strength of word. He lives in New South Wales.

James Sutherland-Smith lives semi-retired in Slovakia. His most recent book is Popeye In Belgrade, from Carcanet.

Jennifer Compton's book This City won the Kathleen Grattan Award for poetry in 2010. It was published this year by Otago, in New Zealand. Parker & Quink is the perfect title of a previous book of hers. She is also a playwright and her play The Big Picture was produced in Sydney in 1997, and subsequently in Perth and Wellington. Born in New Zealand, she's long been in Australia.

John Whitworth is, in his own words, 'one of those fattish, baldish, oldish, backward-looking, provincial poets in which England is so rich'. Actually he's one of a kind. Les Murray has called him 'Kent’s rococo rhymer and hyperbolist'. He started out with Secker and Warburg, and was then for many years with Peterloo. His tenth collection, Girlie Gangs, is scheduled from Enitharmon by the end of 2011.

Hannah Baker teaches at Xavier University in New Orleans and has published in the TLS, New Republic, Gulf Coast, and The Denver Quarterly. She is American but did her PhD in English, completed this summer, at York University.

Bert Almon's tenth book of poems, Waiting for the Gulf Stream, was published by Hagios Press, in 2010. He teaches creative writing at the University of Alberta in Canada.



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