was born in 1977 in Rapla and began publishing her poems whilst a student at Tartu University together with a dozen other young writers in 'The Group of Hermits' (Erakkond). She is currently researching archaic Estonian folk songs and sings in a folk music band. She lives in Tartu and works as a translator, dance teacher and journalist. Her poetry collections include Spring in Astrakhan (2000), St. Simon's Day (2003), and Swanbonecity (2003).
is a member of the artist’s group WochenKlauser. WochenKlausur has been conducting social interventions since 1993. The concept of ‘intervention’, whose usage in art has undergone an inflationary trend in recent years, is often used for any form of change. In contrast, WochenKlausur, at the invitation of art institutions, develops and realises proposals – small-scale but very concrete – for improving sociopolitical deficits. WochenKlausur sees art as an opportunity for achieving long-term improvements in human coexistence. Artists' competence in finding creative solutions, traditionally utilised in shaping materials, can just as well be applied in all areas of society: in ecology, education and city planning. There are problems everywhere that cannot be solved using conventional approaches and are thus suitable subjects for artistic projects. WochenKlausur has worked on over 20 such projects, successfully conducted by alternating teams that have involved over fifty different artists. http://www.wochenklausur.at/projwahl.php?lang=en
was born in 1961 in Warsaw. He is a poet, translator, essayist, and editor. He graduated in German Studies from Warsaw University. His collection 'Z dnia na dzien' ('From day to day') was published in 1992, and 'Podczas ciebie' ('During you') in 1999. He has translated, among others, Celan, Kunze, Kafka and Lise Aichinger. His works have been inspired by Celan and Ryszard Krynicki's poetry. They are characterised by an unusual, almost epigrammatic linguistic brevity, ambiguity and poetic compactness.Some of his poems are included in Altered State: The New Polish Poetry (Arc, 2003).
(Gaza, 1974) graduated in Arab Literature in Gaza. She worked as a volunteer on women's projects and then became a presenter on various local radio programmes before becoming the culture correspondent for the news agency Wafa. Since 2001 she has worked for a Palestinian satellite station. She is the author of two books of poetry, A very seditious woman (Cairo 1995) and There is still sea between us (Ramallah 2000). Her works are also present in the anthology Fifty years of Palestinian Poetry (Ramallah, 2004) and in A World without a Sky.
is the author of several books in Arabic and English of which the most recent is A Treaty of Love (Halban, London), a novel about a relationship between a Palestinian man and an Israeli woman during the years between Oslo Accords and Camp Divide talks. He was born in Rashidia, A Palestinian refugee camp in the South of Lebanon and since 1990 he has been living in London. In 2002 he started a project of collaboration with the Israeli writer Etgar Keret the fruit of which was Gaza Blues, a collection of stories and correspondence on the pages of international newspapers regarding peace and current events in Palestine and Israel. In 2005 he won the Swedish PEN Tucholsky Award for promoting the cause of peace and freedom of speech in the Middle East. He is a regular contributor to many publications including The Guardian, New Statesman and Al-Hayat newspaper.
(1976) published her collection Dhaw’a Muhtaz (Shaken Light) in 2001. Her successful debut novel Maryam’s Mazewas was published by the award-winning Merit publishers in 2004, with the English edition published by AUC Press, Cairo. She has worked in Egyptian television, and presently runs the book review section of the renowned Egyptian literary magazine Akhbar al-Adab ('Literature News').
was born in 1951 and lives in West Wales. She has published eight acclaimed poetry collections, including the bilingual Eucalyptus, 1995, Cell Angel, 1996, and Cusan Dyn Dall/Blind Man’s Kiss, 2000, and has written librettos, stage plays and documentaries for radio and television. Her work has been translated into several languages and a collection is due to appear in Italian with Mobydick publishers in 2004. Her Garden of Light, a choral symphony, was premiered in New York in 1999 and performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. A former lecturer in Welsh literature and a tireless campaigner for minority language and culture rights, she has published a number of articles and academic papers and co-edited The Bloodaxe Book of Modern Welsh Poetry (2003) with John Rowlands and Mererid Hopwood. She is a regular visiting tutor and writing workshop leader in the UK and USA.
(fiction writer; Israel) was born in Leningrad (USSR) and has been living in Israel since the age of 8. Widely translated, Epstein is the author of three collections of short stories, most recently Blue Has No South (2005) and three novels, most recently Dream Recipes (2002). Among his awards is the Prime Minister's Prize for Literature (2003). He writes literary reviews for several newspapers and teaches creative writing in Tel Aviv. His website is http://www.notes.co.il/epstein/.
was born in 1962 in Bartin on the Black Sea. He studied psychology at Bogazici University and oriental languages at Istanbul University. In 1986 he co-founded the Siir Ati (Horse of Poetry) publishing house which brought out over 40 poetry titles in the 1980s. Since his 1986 debut with Yeis ile Tabanca (Despair and Pistol), he has published eight collections, including Kir Agi (Hoarfrost, 1991), Gul ve Telve (Rose and Coffee Grind, 1997) and Sehirde Sansar Var! (There is a Marten in Town!, 1999). His collected poems were published in 2003 and his latest book is Varidik, Yogidik (Once We Were, We Weren’t, 2006). He has also written poems in the Bartin dialect and in other Turkic languages, and has brought a modern approach to the classical Ottoman verse style, aruz, in his book Kara Yazili Meskler (Tunes Written on the Snow, 2003). His translations into Turkish include the poetry of Osip Mandelstam and C. P. Cavafy. He lives in Istanbul.
was born in 1958. He was the editor of the prestigious literary review Varlik and now edits the poetry magazine Yasak Meyve. He has compiled several anthologies of poetry. His selected poems Gectigi Herseyi Opuyor Zaman (Time Kisses Everything It Passes) won the 1997 Cemal Sureya Poetry Award.
(1980, Cadaqués) belongs to the young generation of Catalan multimedia and performance poets. Bypassing publication on the page, he works with his voice and experiments with the possibilities offered by technology, using computer, sound and visual projections. He has performed in a number of countries and has collaborated with artists, musicians and dancers. He is also active as organiser of multimedia poetry events and exhibition-anthologies of performance art and sound / visual poetry and has been running Proposta, the international sound poetry festival in Barcelona (www.propost.org).
was born in Yorkshire, England. She moved to Wales in 1967, and settled on the Llyn peninsula, living also on Bardsey Island (Enlli). Her work has appeared in journals such as The Oxford Magazine, Planet and Poetry Wales and can be read in anthologies such as Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480-1990 (ed. R. Garlick and R. Mathias, Seren 1990), and Twentieth Century Anglo-Welsh Poetry (ed. D. Abse, Seren 1997). Her work has been translated into French (Sans moutons ni dragons, ed. T. Curtis) and Czech (Drak ma dvoji jazyk, ed. P. Mikes, Periplum 2000). In 2005, Christine Evans was awarded the Roland Mathias prize. Her latest poetry collections are Burning the Candle (Gomer, 2006) and Growth Rings (Seren, 2006) has been chosen for the Wales Book of the Year long list.