Advisory Board Alan Summers
Alan Summers, a Japan Times award-winning writer, has had work in Japanese short form poetry win awards, and been translated into 15 languages for twenty-one years. He is a former General Secretary of the British Haiku Society; a Foundation Member for the Australian Haiku Society, and is Director/Lead Tutor for With Words. He is currently a co-haiku editor for Bones Journal (new and gendai haiku); and an Anthology Editor for Yet To Be Named Free Press. Does Fish-God Know (Winter 2012) is Alan’s collection of short form verse and gendai haiku.He is also busy on a children’s fiction novel; an adult crime thriller, as well as The Kigo Lab (an experiment with Western season words for haikai literature as full-blown kigo for eco-critical writing). Alan’s Area 17 Blog: http://area17.blogspot.com With Words: http://www.withwords.org.uk
Bill Ashcroft
Bill Ashcroft is a renowned critic and theorist, founding exponent of post-colonial theory, co-author of The Empire Writes Back, the first text to examine systematically the field of post-colonial studies. He is author and co-author of sixteen books and over 160 articles and chapters, variously translated into six languages, including Post-Colonial Transformation and On PostColonial Futures and Caliban’s Voice. He holds an Australian Professorial Fellowship at the University of New South Wales, Australia, working on the project “Future Thinking: Utopianism in Postcolonial Literatures.”
George Szirtes
George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948 and came to England as a refugee in 1956. He was brought up in London and studied Fine Art in London and Leeds. His poems began appearing in national magazines in 1973 and his first book, The Slant Door, was published in 1979. It won the Faber Memorial prize the following year. By this time he was married with two children. After the publication of his second book, November
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