Jenny Joseph was born in Birmingham in 1932. She was first published by John Lehmann in the 1950s. Her first book of poems, The Unlooked-for Season (1960), won her an Eric Gregory Award, and she won a Cholmondeley Award for her second collection, Rose in the Afternoon (1974). Two further collections followed from Secker & Warburg, The Thinking Heart (1978) and Beyond Descartes (1983). Her Selected Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 1992, drawing on these four books. She is best-known for her poem 'Warning', a dramatic monologue in which a young woman talks of her fantasies of old age, voted Britain's favourite modern poem in a BBC poll in 2006. First published in Rose in the Afternoon, 'Warning' is included in her Bloodaxe Selected Poems: to view of her reading the poem, click on that page.

Her other books include: Persephone (Bloodaxe Books, 1986), winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; Beached Boats (Enitharmon Press, 1991), a collaboration with photographer Robert Mitchell; Ghosts and other company (Bloodaxe Books, 1995); a book of prose, Extended Similes (Bloodaxe Books, 1997), All the Things I See (Macmillan Children’s Books, 2000); a gardening memoir, Led by the Nose: A Garden of Smells (Souvenir Press, 2002); a collection of new and later selected poems, Extreme of things (Bloodaxe Books, 2006); and Nothing Like Love (Enitharmon Press, 2010), a selection of her love poems.

She lives in Gloucestershire.

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.