Michael Schmidt FRSL, poet,scholar, critic and translator, was born in Mexico in 1947; he studied atHarvard and at Wadham College, Oxford, before settling in England. Among hismany publications are several collections of poems and a novel, TheColonist (1981), about a boy's childhood in Mexico. He is generaleditor of PN Review and founder as well as managing directorof Carcanet Press. He lives in Manchester.John McAuliffe grew up in County Kerry, Ireland. The Gallery Press haspublished his five poetry collections, including A Better Life (2002)which was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. He teaches poetry at the Universityof Manchester's Centre for New Writing.Andrew Latimer is the managing editor at Carcanet Press and also deputy andproduction editor of PN Review. He is an established editor,designer and publisher (founder and continuing editor of Little Island Pressand of the magazine Egress) and a poet contributor to NewPoetries VII.

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