In 2003, Avril Joy won a Northern Promise Award from New Writing North. The Sweet Track was her first novel and was published in 2007.

Joyce Loebl & Co was founded in 1951 by Herbert Loebl and Robert Joyce. Initially a repair and callibration service for electrical items, the company quickly began to specialise in the production of high tech scientific equipment focussed mainly on the newly emerging medical laboratory analysis market. By 1953 Joyce-Loebl had collaborated With Dr Lindsay Molyneux to develop and market the Photodensitometer, with the firm later developing a range of medical laboratory equipment including the Chromograph, the Chromoscan, the Roboscan, the Microdesitometer and the Mecolab system.

In 1969 Joyce and Loebl sold all Joyce-Loebl equity to Technical Operations Inc, with Herbert Loebl remaining Chairman and Managing Director until 1970. Herbert Loebl remained on the Board of Technical Operations Inc until 1974.

Attila József was a Hungarian poet of the 20th century.

Palestinian-American poet, physician and translator, Joudah is the 2007 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition for his collection of poems The Earth in the Attic.

Anna Kamienska was a Polish poet, writer, translator and literary critic who lived in Lublin during the Nazi occupation, and taught in underground village schools.

Tomasz P. Krzeszowski is a Polish professor, scholar and linguist.

Desmond Graham is a poet, translator, critic and editor of war poetry, biographer of Keith Douglas and Emeritus Professor of Poetry at Newcastle University.

Two Darknesses was published in 1997.

Sylvia Kantaris was born in 1936 in Derbyshire Peak District. She studied French at Bristol University, taught in Bristol and London, and then spent ten years in Australia, where she taught French at Queensland University, had two children, and wrote her M.A. and Ph.D. theses on French surrealism. Her articles on surrealism and poems were published widely in Australia and England in major periodicals and anthologies, including The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Verse. She was the joint winner of the Poetry Magazine Award in 1969.

In 1974 she settled in Helston, Cornwall, and from 1976 to 1984 tutored Twentieth Century Poetry for the Open University. In 1986 she was appointed Cornwall’s first Writer in the Community, and in 1989 received an honorary D.Litt. from Exeter University.

Her first two books of poems, Time & Motion (Prism/Poetry Society of Australia, 1975) and the Tenth Muse (Peterloo Poets, 1983), were both reissued by Menhir Press in 1986. Her third collection, The Sea at the Door (Secker & Warburg, 1985), is no longer available.

She has published two joint collections with other poets, News from the Front with D.M. Thomas (Arc, 1983), and The Air Mines of Mistila with Philip Gross (Bloodaxe Books, 1988), a poetry Book Society Choice.

Her latest titles are Dirty Washing: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 1989), including work from all her previous books except The Air Mines of Mistila, and a new collection, Lad's Love (Bloodaxe Books, 1993).