Doreen King's background is in science, she holds a PhD in Chemistry and she was awarded the British Technology Group Prize for Research, City University. She has written four books on Wildlife and these are closely linked to her zen poetry.

Galway Kinnell was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1927. He made his living mostly from teaching from 1949 to 2005, in France, Iran and Australia as well as at colleges and universities across America. He was Erich Maria Remarque Professor of Creative Writing at New York University for many years, and served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2007. In 1982 his Selected Poems won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. An updated and expanded edition was published as Selected Poems by Bloodaxe in Britain in 2001. He has also published several translations, including books by Goll, Lorca, Rilke and Villon, and Yves Bonnefoy’s On the Motion and Immobility of Douve in the Bloodaxe Contemporary French Poets series (1992). His latest collection, Strong Is Your Hold, published with an audio CD in 2007 by Bloodaxe, includes his long poem 'When the Towers Fell', a requiem for those who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 in direct view of his New York apartment. He now lives only in a remote part of northern Vermont, in the house he bought as a wreck in the 60s, where he has written much of his work. He died on the 28th of October 2014.

Born in 1963, John Kinsella has published a dozen books of poetry in Australia, and three in Britain. His Poems 1980-1994 is published by Bloodaxe simultaneously with the Hunt, whole The Silo: A Pastoral Symphony is available seperately, from Arc. He lives in Cambridge and divides his time between Britain and Australia; he is a By-Fellow of Churchill College.