list of contributors
and twentieth-century British and Irish poets(most recently Philip Larkin, Eavan
Boland and Medbh McGuckian, Ted Hughes, Thomas Hardy, William Barnes) as
well as on translation theory.
April Warmanis currently at Pembroke College, Oxford, where she is researching
a D.Phil. on modern poetry’s relation to the dead. She specializes in the work of
Paul Muldoon, Michael Longley, and Geoffrey Hill.
Roderick Watsonteaches literature at the University of Stirling, where he is also
Director of the Stirling Centre for Scottish Studies. He has been General Editor
of the Canongate Classics since the start of the series and editor ofThe Poetry of
Scotland(1995). His books includeHugh MacDiarmid(1976, 1985);The Poetry
of Norman MacCaig(1989);Into the Blue Wavelengths(poetry, 2004); andThe
Literature of Scotland(1984; revised in 2 vol. 2006).
David Wheatleylectures in English at the University of Hull. His first collection
of poetry,Thirst(1997), was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature;Misery
Hillappeared in 2000, and a third,Mocker, in 2006. He has published articles and
reviews in many journals and edited collections, and was a founder editor ofMetre.
He has also edited the work of James Clarence Mangan, and is writing a book on
contemporary British poetry for Cambridge University Press.
Gerwyn Wiliamsis a Professor and Head of the School of Welsh, University of
Wales, Bangor. He has published widely, mainly on twentieth-century literature,
and among his publications areYRhwyg(1993), a study of Welsh poetry about the
First World War;Tir Neb(1996), a study of Welsh prose and the First World War;
and more recently,Tir Newydd(2005), a study of Welsh literature and the Second
World War. He is also an accomplished poet, having won the Crown in the 1994
National Eisteddfod; his latest collection,Tafarn Tawelwch, was published in 2003.