Ten of the Best

Sion Tomos Owen: Tudor Bevan Award winner and runner up in the Young Welsh Writer's competition, the lead singer and guitarist in 'The Pine Barons'. M.A. Oliver: Blown magazine's poet in residence, for whom home is the train between Cardiff and Siberia. 'These poems confirm Oliver's originality. They are violent and self-mocking, yet vital and attentive.' - Rachel Trezise Anna Lewis: winner of the Christopher Tower Poetry Competition, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, and the Robin Reeves Prize for Young Writers, has been selected tor the Scritture Giovani literature exchange project. Mab Jones: John Tripp Award winner and superb performance poet who beat Gillian Clarke, and four other poets, in a slam at Folklife Festival in Washington DC. Alan Kellermann: Wisconsin-born poet and writer who has contributed to many leading literary mags, including Planet, Agenda, Poetry Ireland Review, and in the Nu: Fiction and Stuff.