People

United Kingdom

Alan Halsey
Was born in Croydon, in the United Kingdom, in 1949. He presently lives in Sheffield. He directed the Poetry Bookshop at Hay-on-Wye (1981-1997). At the moment he is writing a study of Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Perspectives on the Reach (1981), The Text of Shelley’s Death (1995) and A Robbin Hood Book (1996) are some of his books. He is a painter, collagist, and book illustrator, as well.

Anna Reckin
Anna Reckin's poetry has appeared in Chain, Prosodia, Key Satch(el), and The Texas Observer. Her first book, Broder, an artists-book collaboration with photographer Paulette Myers-Rich, published by Traffic Street Press, won a Minnesota Book Award in 2000. She is currently studying for a PhD in the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo.

Bill Griffiths
Was born in Middlesex in 1948. By 1971, his first poems were published in Poetry Review under the editorship of Eric Mottram. He studied Old English at King's College, London, obtaining a PhD in 1987. In 1990, Bill moved north and settled at Seaham on the Durham coast, where he has produced titles on local history, dialect and place-names. His latest poetry titles have come not from his own Amra Imprint but as paperback volumes from other little presses: Rousseau and the Wicked (Invisible Books, London, 1996), a joint book with Tom Raworth and Tom Leonard (Etruscan Reader 5, Etruscan Books, Buckfastleigh, 1997) and on his own, Nomad Sense (Talus Editions, London, 1998) and A Book of Spilt Cities (Etruscan Books, 1999). He has also published several translations from Old English.www.billygriff.co.uk

Eric Mottram (1924-1995)

Geraldine Monk

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John Havelda
Is an English poet of Hungarian origin, and lives in Oporto. Lecturer in English at the Faculty of Letters of Coimbra, his short plays have been staged in both Oporto, Coimbra and Lisbon. He is a painter, and exhibits his work nationally. His most recent book is mor (1997). mor is an experimental work, using polylingualism and different modes of communicating, and is translated into the Portuguese by Manuel Portela.

Jonathan Morley
Is the series editor of Macmillan Caribbean Writers and is currently completing a PhD at the University of Warwick, investigating T. S. Eliot’s influence on Caribbean literature. He recently won an Eric Gregory Award for the best British poets under thirty, and his own poetry appears in The Allotment: new lyric poetry (ed. Andy Brown, Stride Books, 2006) and in Heaventree New Poets Volume 4.
In 2002 he founded The Heaventree Press, an award-winning community publishing house based in the West Midlands; now the recipient of a major Arts Council England expansion grant, he continues to work as the company’s Editorial Director, with a list of poetry publications commissioned for 2007 including: Selected Poems of Egbert Martin, showcasing a little-known nineteenth century poet from British Guiana (ed. David Dabydeen); The First Crossing, the recently unearthed diary of Theophilus Richmond, surgeon aboard the first boat taking indentured Indians to the Caribbean in 1838; Forbidden Fruit: the literature of inter-racial love and sex (ed. Benjamin Zephaniah); and The Other Half of History, a collection of francophone African women’s poetry (trans. Georgina Collins).
He has edited numerous publications, including: I Have Crossed An Ocean, an anthology of refugee and international writing (Heaventree, 2004); Para Vasco / For Vasco: poems from Guinea-Bissau (Heaventree, 2005); and Sherb: new urban poetry from Coventry (Heaventree, 2006). He contributed essays on ‘Anthropology’, ‘Africa and British colonialism’, ‘British colonies in the Caribbean’, ‘Dub poetry’, ‘Masques’, ‘Modernism’, ‘Orientalism’, ‘Othello’, ‘Refugees and asylum seekers’, ‘Titus Andronicus’ and ‘The Tempest’ to the Oxford Companion to Black British History, commissioned to mark the 200th anniversary of abolition of the slave trade(eds. David Dabydeen, John Gilmore & Cecily Jones, OUP, 2007), and his research into Warwickshire and the slave trade has been published by the BBC.
His most recent publication is Charrua and Beyond: poems from Mozambique / Para Além de Charrua: poemas de Moçambique, translated in collaboration with Portuguese scholars from the University of Birmingham.

Maggie O’Sullivan
Maggie O' Sullivan was born in Lincolnshire, 1951, to Irish parents. Poet, artist, editor, publisher, she has been making and performing her work internationally since the late 1970s. In 1988 O’Sullivan moved to the Pennines outside Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire.  Recent poetry includes: red shifts (Buckfastleigh, Devon: etruscan books, 2001), In the House of the Shaman (London: Reality Street, 1993, reprinted 2003), Palace of Reptiles (Ontario: The Gig, 2003) and "all origins are lonely" (London: Veer Books, 2003). She is the editor of Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in  North America and the UK (London: Reality Street, 1996). Body of Work, a major retrospective, which brings together for the first time all of Maggie O’Sullivan’s long out of print booklets from the 1980’s, has just been published (Reality Street, 2007).

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Tony Harrison
Was born in Leeds in 1937, and lives presently in Newcastle upon Tyne. He works in poetry, drama, television and cinema. His earlier work has been collected in Selected Poems (1985) and Dramatic Verse (1985). He has won various prizes, the most recent being the William Heinemann Prize (1996). His latest collections of poems are The Shadow of Hiroshima and other Film/Poems (1995) and Prometheus (1998). His long poem v. was recently published in a Portuguese translation (1999).

Sean Bonney
Has written Notes on Heresy (Writers Forum, 2002) and Poisons, their Antidotes (West House Books, 2003), as well as polemics and criticism. He is influenced by Mark E Smith and William Blake, and lives in London.

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