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Judith Willson has worked as a teacher and in publishing. Her edition of selected poems by Charlotte Smith, and Out of My Borrowed Books, an anthology of work by three Victorian women poets, are published by Carcanet. Alex Wong is a literary scholar living in Cambridge, where he has recently completed his doctoral studies. For Carcanet he has edited a selection of Swinburne’s verse (2015). Editors Michael Schmidt is editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press which he founded with friends in 1969. He has also been the managing editor of PN Review since 1972. He is a literary historian, poet, novelist and translator, a Professor of Poetry, and a writer in residence at St John’s College, Cambridge. Helen Tookey lives in Liverpool, where she teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Missel-Child, was published by Carcanet in 2014; her other publications include Anaïs Nin, Fictionality and Femininity (Oxford University Press) and, co-edited with Bryan Biggs, Malcolm Lowry: From the Mersey to the World (Liverpool University Press). 272 New Poetries VI
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Acknowledgements Vahni Capildeo ‘Inhuman Triumphs’ was published in the Cambridge Literary Review. ‘Pobrecillo Tam’ was published in Visual Verse, after an image by Nick Simpson. ‘Slaughterer’ and ‘Stalker’ were published in PN Review. ‘Fire & Darkness: And Also / No Join / Like’ was published in Poetry & Audience. ‘Louise Bourgeois: Insomnia Drawings’ was published in Molly Bloom. ‘Mercy and Estrangement’ was commended in Café Writers Poetry Competition 2012. ‘The Prolongation of the Spine and the Stretched Neck Approximate the French Philosopher Only to his Own, and Airy, Beast’ was published in aglimpseof. John Clegg ‘The Signal and the Noise’ first appeared in Magma. ‘Donald Davie in Nashville’ first appeared in Poetry Review. Joey Connolly ‘What You’ve Done’, ‘Your Room at Midnight was Suddenly’ and ‘Coming to Pass’ first appeared in PN Review. ‘A Brief Glosa’ first appeared in Magma. ‘That Rogue Longing’ first appeared in Stand. ‘Poem in Which Go I’ first appeared in Poems in Which. ‘The Finest Fire-Proofing We Have’ first appeared in The Lifeboat. ‘Of Some Substance, Once’ first appeared in Poetry Wales. ‘[untititled]’ and ‘Themselves’ first appeared in Cadaverine. Brandon Courtney ‘Shore Leave, Crete, 2002’ was first published in Prick of the Spindle. ‘Public Lashing, Iraq, 2004’ was first published in Thrush Poetry Journal. ‘The Fear Muscles’ was selected for inclusion in the anthology Remembrances of Wars Past: A War Veterans Anthology, ed. Henry Tonn. ‘Bodega’ was first published in Tinderbox. ‘Beforelife’ was first published in Cream City Review. ‘Sinsemilla’ is forthcoming from the Boston Review. ‘The Grief Muscles’ was first published in Vinyl Poetry. All the poems are included in The Grief Muscles (Sheep Meadow Press, 2014).

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Judith Willson has worked as a teacher and in publishing. Her edition of selected poems by Charlotte Smith, and Out of My Borrowed Books, an anthology of work by three Victorian women poets, are published by Carcanet.

Alex Wong is a literary scholar living in Cambridge, where he has recently completed his doctoral studies. For Carcanet he has edited a selection of Swinburne’s verse (2015).

Editors

Michael Schmidt is editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press which he founded with friends in 1969. He has also been the managing editor of PN Review since 1972. He is a literary historian, poet, novelist and translator, a Professor of Poetry, and a writer in residence at St John’s College, Cambridge.

Helen Tookey lives in Liverpool, where she teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University. Her first full-length collection of poetry, Missel-Child, was published by Carcanet in 2014; her other publications include Anaïs Nin, Fictionality and Femininity (Oxford University Press) and, co-edited with Bryan Biggs, Malcolm Lowry: From the Mersey to the World (Liverpool University Press).

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