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POETS
 Ruth Larbey was born in Cyprus, and grew up in Nottingham, Hong Kong and rural Cumbria. She has spent her last two years working at an international development charity in London, after completing her MA at Warwick University in 2008. She has been published in various magazines, and organises music and art performance events in her spare time. Funglish is her debut pamphlet of poems.
 Claire Crowther's two collections, Stretch of Closures and The Clockwork Gift, have been received with wide acclaim. Stretch of Closures was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh first collection prize in 2007. Her work is published widely in such journals as the London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, New Welsh Review, PN Review, Warwick Review, and online in Horizon, Qualm and many others. She has an MPhil (Glamorgan) and a PhD (Kingston) both in Creative Writing. She was born and grew up in Hobs Moat near Solihull.
 Mark Goodwin’s third full-length collection is Shod. He has previously published two collections with Shearsman Books, Else and Back of A Vast; and also a chapbook entitled Distance a Sudden with Longbarrow Press. He has been fascinated by religions and mysticism since he started writing; being much inspired and informed by the works of Ted Hughes, Peter Redgrove and Penelope Shuttle. Mark lives in Leicestershire where he works as a community poet.
Roz Goddard’s fourth poetry collection is The Sopranos Sonnets & Other Poems. She is a former poet-laureate for Birmingham, her work is permanently displayed in BMAG’s newest gallery. Her poetry has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She runs writing workshops and courses, including for the Arvon Foundation and mentors individual writers. She is currently studying for an MPhil in writing at Glamorgan University. More details of her work can be found at www.rozgoddard.com.
 Milorad Krystanovich was born in Croatia and has lived in Birmingham since 1992. He studied Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham and is a member of Writers Without Borders, Cannon Poets and the Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. Milorad works as a language teacher at the Brasshouse Centre in Birmingham. Improvising Memory is his sixth poetry collection, and follows on from The Yasen Tree (Heaventree Press, 2007).
 Simon Turner was born in Birmingham in 1980. His first collection, You Are Here, was published by Heaventree Press in 2007. His poems and reviews have appeared in a number of publications, including Tears in the Fence, The Wolf, Horizon Review and The London Magazine. With George Ttoouli, he co-edits Gists and Piths, an experiment in blogging dedicated to the publication and discussion of contemporary poetry, which has been up and running since 2007. He lives and works in Warwickshire.
 Myra Connell’s first collection of poems, A Still Dark Kind of Work, was published by Heaventree Press in 2008. Her poems have appeared in various magazines, and her short stories in two collections from Tindal Street Press, Her Majesty and Are You She? She lives in Birmingham and has two grown-up sons.
David Morley is a British poet, critic, anthologist, editor and scientist of partly Romani extraction. He has published eighteen books, including nine collections of poetry. His work has been translated into several languages including Arabic. His forthcoming collection from Carcanet will be titled Enchantment.
 Matt Nunn was born in West Bromwich in 1971 and works as a freelance poetry workshop leader and freelance writer. His work has taken him into many obscure places. Amongst other things he is the the co-editor of Under the Radar and Nine Arches Press. He lives with his wife and son in some kind of bliss in Solihull.
 Peter Carpenter is co-director of Worple Press and was recently Creative Writing Fellow at the University of Reading. His fourth collection of poetry is Catch from Shoestring; and he recently contributed to Iain Sinclair's London: City of Disappearances (Penguin)
photo credit: Roddy Paine
 Tom Chivers was born in 1983 in South London. A writer, editor and promoter of poetry, his publications include The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009) and How To Build A City (Salt Publishing, 2009). He is Editor of Litro, Associate Editor of Tears in the Fence, Poet in Residence at The Bishopsgate Institute, and appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Tom is Director of Penned in the Margins and Co-Director of London Word Festival.
David Hart, born in Aberystwyth, lives in Birmingham, has been (many years ago) a university chaplain, theatre critic and arts administrator, and now lives as a poet, with recent part time teaching posts at Warwick and Birmingham Universities; residencies include psychiatric and general hospitals and Worcester Cathedral, was Birmingham Poet Laureate 1997-98; books include Crag Inspector (a poem of Bardsey Island), and Running Out (Five Seasons Press 2006). http://davidhartbirminghampoet.blogspot.com/.
Liam Guilar, although born in Coventry and a graduate of Birmingham University, now lives in Australia where he teaches English. Infected as a child by an overdose of Rider Haggard, he has spent much of his time in search of remote rivers, most recently throughout Indonesia. His account of Dancing with the Bear, an “expedition” to what was then Soviet Central Asia, can be found online here.
 Jane Holland is a poet, novelist and editor of the online arts magazine, Horizon Review. Her latest book of poetry is her third collection, Camper Van Blues. As well as all this, Jane also set up the poetry events listing site, Poets on Fire, blogs about her own writing at Raw Light, and is currently Warwick Poet Laureate. A passionate believer in 'doing it live', Jane also manages to find time to perform at open mics and events around the country.
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