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 is 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.
Assistant
Poetry 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.
“The best debut of the year”
Nicola Smyth – Independent Book of the Year
“Pulls out all the stops…, beautifully crafted poems laden
with rich and surprising imagery”
Sarah Corbett – Poetry Wales
“Here is a richly imaginative new voice… the poems make athletic
metaphoric leaps between domestic scenes and a macrocosmic world of nature,
geography, and cosmology… An intuitive and lyrical sensibility is
allied with unusual powers of visualisation and composition to make this
a distinctive and assured debut collection.”
Maurice Riordan – PBS Bulletin
Supreme Being, which came out from Enitharmon in November 08, is her second collection and received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
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.
"among the handful of writers today trying to work towards a serious, intelligent poetry of the people"
Peter Sansom
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 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. She contributed to the educational website www.intercooltural.hu as a writer and editor.
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.