is a poet from Torquay, England.  A few years ago he left a glittering career as a shelf filler for a major supermarket and began to perform his work around the country.

his poetry book, Thirst (Slow Dancer, 1999) was Nominated for The Forward Prize for Best First Poetry Collection.  This was followed by The Scene Of My Former Triumph (Wrecking Ball, 2005); Apparently  (Bloodaxe, 2010); and Professor Glass (Donut, 2011); the latter two both being featured on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb.  He has recently read at The National Portrait Gallery — both for The Lucien Freud Memorial Readings and The Lost Prince Exhibition — and talked on ee cummings at The Royal Festival Hall as part of The Rest Is Noise Festival.  He lives and writes in London.

taught English at Simon Fraser University from 1972 until his retirement in 2001.  Canada’s first Poet Laureate, he is an Officer of both the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia.  He was one of the founders of the poetry publication Tish, served as and has received two Governor General’s awards: the first, for poetry, in 1969 for The Gangs of Kosmos and Rocky Mountain Foot and the second, in 1980, for Burning Water, reissued by New Star in 2007.  He is the author of nine novels, five books of short stories, and numerous volumes of poetry, including Autobiology (New Star, 1972).

was born in 1972 in Chicago, Illinois.  He received a B.A. from SUNY Buffalo and an M.F.A. from Brooklyn College.  He is the son of poets Alice Notley and the late Ted Berrigan.  He is the author of five books of poetry: Notes from Irrelevance (Wave Books, 2011), Free Cell (City Lights Books, 2009), Some Notes on My Programming (Edge, 2006), Zero Star Hotel (Edge, 2002), Integrity and Dramatic Life (Edge, 1999), and co-editor with Alice Notley and his brother Edmund Berrigan, of The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2005) and The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan (U. California, 2011).  From 2003–2007 he was Artistic Director of The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church.  He is Co-Chair, Writing at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, and teaches writing at Pratt Institute and Brooklyn College.  He was a New York State Foundation for the Arts fellow in Poetry for 2007, and has received two grants from the Fund for Poetry.  He lives in New York City.