Carlin, Vuyelwa

Vuyelwa Carlin was born in South Africa in 1949, brought up in Uganda, and has lived for many years now in Shropshire. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies in the UK and abroad. She has published three poetry collections to date and has won prizes in both the Cardiff and National Poetry Competitions. She is also A Hawthornden Fellow. For the past five years she as worked as a carer in an EMI (Elderly Mentally Infirm) unit.

Chamberlain, Brenda

Painter and writer Brenda Chamberlain ( 1912-1971) lived on the island of Bardsey from 1947-1961, during the last days of its hardy community. The combination of Bardsey, site of ancient Christian pilgrimage, wild and dangerous landscape, and Chamberlain, Royal Academy trained artist, resulted in a classic book, vividly illustrated by the author’s line drawings.

Clark, Phil

Phil Clark is Artistic Director of the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff.

Clements, Paul

Cluysenaar, Anne

Anne Cluysenaar was born in Belgium, the daughter of the Belgian-Scottish artist John Cluysenaar and his wife, the painter Sybil Fitzgerald Hewat. The family moved to Britain just before the outbreak of World War II and by the age of seven, Anne was committed to writing poetry. She has lectured in
literature, linguistics and creative writing at (amongst other places) the universities of Manchester, Dublin, Aberdeen, Lancaster, Birmingham and Cardiff. She has been published widely in magazines and anthologies, founded two literary journals: Sheaf (still going) and Scintilla (published by the Usk
Valley Vaughan Association).Amongst her titles are: as an editor: The Selected Poems of Henry Vaughan, and as a poet: Timeslips: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet, 1997). She has lived in Wales for the last twenty years, running a smallholding near Usk.

Coles, Gladys Mary

Gladys Mary Coles, the leading authority on the subject, is President of the Mary Webb Society. Her earlier, now unavailable, biography, The Flower of Light (1978), was an acclaimed pioneering study and is recognised as the standard work on Mary Webb. She is also the editor of the Selected Poems of Mary Webb and the ungathered writings, Mary Webb: Collected Prose and Poems.

Collins, Richard

Richard Collins has been a farm labourer, gardener and estate worker. He lives with his family in west Wales and teaches at the Institute of Rural Sciences in Llanbadarn.

Conran, Tony

Tony Conran was born in India, but has spent most of his life in north Wales. He is a former Research Fellow in the English Department at UCNW, Bangor. An outstanding translator, he is also a prize-winning poet in his own right, often combining Welsh traditions with the English language.

Cook, R.D.

R D Cook was a founding member of staff at Brockwood Park School in Hampshire. He then trained as a therapist and developed and managed a range of intensive programmes for serious offenders with the Probation Service. He also worked as supervisor of counselling and trainer with several Westminster Pastoral Foundation affiliated services, and was a freelance groupwork trainer and part-time university lecturer. He and his wife, a painter and gardener, live on a smallholding in North Pembrokeshire. They have one daughter.

Cooke, Eleanor

Eleanor Cooke was born in Yorkshire but lives now in the Welsh border country, where she is a lecturer in Creative Writing.