Anvil New Poets, Volume 1

Shireley Bell lives on a Lincolnshire cactus farm with her physicist husband and their children. Her poems have been widely published in magazines such as Poetry Review, Ambit, Critical Quarterly, London Magazine and The Wide Skirt, and broadcast on Radio 3's Poetry Now. A pamphlet, Hanging Windows on the Dark, was published by Wide Skirt Press in 1987. Her work has also appeared in Faber and Faber's Poetry Introduction 6, and Rivelin Grapheme's Six: The Versewagton Poetry Manual. The poems in this collection have previously appeared in all of these publications.

Patricia Doubell was born in Dorset. She trained as a dancer and danced proffesionally, before marrying and farming in Wales. Her poetry was first published in Adam, and subsequently in Tribune, Outposts, Pick, Breif, Workshop Magazine, Poets International, Doves for the 70s and The Evans Book of Children's Verse. She has also given many readings and broadcast her poems on Radio 3. Her autobiography "At the Dog in Dulwich" was published by Seeker and Warburg in 1986.

Born in Tehran in 1944, Mimi Khalvati grew up on the Isle of Wight and attended the Drama Centre, London. She then worked as a theatre director in Tehran, translating from English into Farsi and devising new plays, as well as co-founding the Theatre in Exile group. She now lives in Hackney and is a Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths College and a director of the London Poetry School. Carcanet publish her six previous collections, including "In White Ink" (1991), "Mirrorwork" (1995) and "The Chine" (2002).