North by North-East Belinda Cooke

North by North-East Belinda CookeThe North East has long been a stronghold for writers and poets, home to many of the countrys most active small presses, Flambard, Mslexia, IRON and of course Bloodaxe, home to the nations largest literary award (from The Northern Rock Foundation), and home also to a whole host of talented poets either born there or attracted there by the regions active literary scene. This extensive anthology features the work of more than 40 poets resident in the

He lives in Paisley

• Niyati Keni

had an authoritative text by a well-loved Hertford teacher

She was a resident playwright at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya from 2006 to 2008

Better than any political analysis

Must a poet write in the mother tongue

The Spanish Civil War

Thomas Høegh

From Mike Lyons' Translation of Ingeborg Bachmann's: ‘War Diary’

Alice in Wonderland meets David Brent: exploring the humdrum of 9-5 office work

exact and minutely observant

he is tremendously tall and gangling and is called Bob