Editors

Colette Bryce

Colette Bryce is the author of three poetry collections with Picador and is the former North East Literary Fellow at the universities of Newcastle and Durham. Her most recent book, Self-Portrait in the Dark, was published in Sept ’08 and was short-listed for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. She has received several awards for her books, including the Aldeburgh Prize and the Strong Award, and for individual poems she has won the National Poetry Competition (2003) and the Academi Cardiff International (2007). She works as a freelance writer and editor.

Martha Kapos

Martha Kapos, Assistant Poetry Editor, was born in America, read Classics at Harvard, then came to study painting and art history at the Chelsea College of Art. She taught there, lecturing and writing on art history and poetry until 2001, when she joined Poetry London.

Her first poetry publication was a pamphlet from The Many Press in 1989. She won a Hawthornden Fellowship in 1994 and in 2000 was shortlisted for Poetry Review’s Geoffrey Dearmer ‘New Poet of the Year’ Award. Her poems have been published in Agenda, Thumbscrew, Poetry London, Poetry Review, Rialto, and the TLS.

Her first collection, My Nights in Cupid’s Palace (Enitharmon, 2003) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation and won the Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize for Best First Collection. Her second collection, Supreme Being (Enitharmon 2008), received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Tim Dooley

Tim Dooley has reviewed poetry for The Times Literary Supplement, written obituaries for The Times and edited the small press magazine Green Lines. He has also been a creative writing tutor for the Arvon Foundation, Writers Inc and The Poetry School. His first collection of poems The Interrupted Dream was published by Anvil in 1985. This was followed by The Secret Ministry (2001) and Tenderness (2004), both winners in the Poetry Business pamphlet competition. Tenderness was also a Poetry Book Society pamphlet choice. His latest collection Keeping Time (2008), published by Salt, is a Poetry Book Society recommendation. He works as a teacher in a secondary school on the edge of London.

Scott Verner

Scott Verner, Reviews Editor since 1999, began his career as a journalist, later was a marketing consultant with major Anglo-American advertising agencies and consultancies in Philadelphia and London. In Philadelphia he sponsored poetry readings by Dylan Thomas, EE Cummings, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, WH Auden and Stephen Spender.

His poems are published in two anthologies, Tying the Song and Beyond Bedlam as well as in such journals as Sheffield Thursday, Poetry London and The American Poetry Review.

Gyongyi Vegh

Gyongyi Vegh is an educator and a poetry enthusiast. She earned her MA in English Language and Literature at Eotvos University in Budapest, Hungary. She studied African-American literature at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, USA. Later she earned her second degree in American Studies at Eotvos University.

She taught English and trained EFL teachers in Hungary, China, Poland and Kazakhstan. She co-authored Zoom In On Britain and Hungary (Swan, 2001), an English course for young adults. In 2004 she moved to London, where she continues to work in education. She is enthusiastic about contemporary poetry and the idea of translating poetry from Hungarian into English. She joined Poetry London in May 2006.

Martin Parker

Martin Parker was born in North Nottinghamshire and studied photography at Napier University, Edinburgh. He moved to London in 1997 and completed his MA (Fine Art) at Central Saint Martins, London. His work has been exhibited in Sheffield, Edinburgh, London and Poznan, Poland, including solo shows, and he has curated a number of international and UK exhibitions.

He has worked as a graphic designer since 1997 and specializes in education and the arts. His clients include: Tate Modern, Terra Incognita, Refugee Council, The Poetry Society, The Poetry School, Enitharmon Press, Hearing Eye, Lambeth Archive, Norwood, Middlesex University, Social Spider, and the Zoological Society of London. He is co-editor of Brittle Star magazine for new writers and plays in a band called Friends (since 1990). He joined Poetry London in 2000.

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