Poole, Richard

Richard Poole, poet and critic, was born in Bradford and educated at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He was for many years Tutor in Literature at Coleg Harlech. His publications include volumes of poetry and he is a former editor of Poetry Wales. An authority on the work of Richard Hughes, he has edited the writer's early stories, In the Lap of Atlas (1979) and a selection of his literary writings, Fiction as Truth (1983).

Pugh, Sheenagh

Sheenagh Pugh is known to thousands of poetry readers for 'Sometimes', her much anthologised 'poem on the underground' and for her Selected Poems, a set text in schools.. She currently lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Glamorgan, and has won numerous prizes for her work, including the Babel Prize for translation and the ACW Book of the Year in 2000. For more information about Sheenagh Pugh visit her website www.geocities.com/sheenaghpugh.