Les Murray, Australia
Les Murray was born in 1938 and grew up on a dairy farm at Bunyah, between Forster and Gloucester on the north Coast of New South Wales. He retired from outside employment in 1971 and made literature his full time career. His work has been highly praised throughout the English-speaking world.
Les Murray is amongst the most gifted poets writing today. His multifaceted talents have received high praise both in his native Australia and beyond. But he has also proved a controversial figure, whose poetry strays across the boundaries of political and cultural debate. His version of Australian republicanism has caused heated argument about the future direction of his country as it moves out of the shadow of its colonial past.
His collections include Conscious and Verbal, Frady Neptune, New Selected Poems, Poems the Size of Photographs and a dozen more.
Jayanta Mahapatra, India
Jayanta Mahapatra is a leading Indian poet. He has read and published his poetry all over the world. He has won such coveted awards as the Jacob Glatstein Memorial Award of Chicago’s Poetry and the Sahitya Akademi Award. Four out of sixteen collections of poems are published abroad. Some of the latest prestigious international anthologies, which include his poems, are The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry (Random House, New York, 1996) and The Poetry Anthology 1912-2002 (Ivan R.Dee, Chicago, 2002). His latest book is Random Descent.
He lives in Cuttack where he edits the influential literary magazine Chandrabhaga.
Bill Ashcroft, Australia
Bill Ashcroft teaches at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is widely published in post-colonial studies and has co-authored with Gareth Griffith and Helen Tiffin, The Post Colonial Studies Reader (1994) and written Key Concepts in Post Colonial Studies (1998) and also the famous Critical work- The Empire Writes Back (1989).
S. Asnani, India
Shyam Asnani is a renowned scholar and an Ex-Professor of English from Himachal Pradesh Universithy Shimla. Prof. Asnani has worked extensively in “New Literatures”. His articles, reviews and write-ups have been published in various journals in India and abroad.
E. E. Sule, Nigeria
E.E. Sule (also known as Sule E. Egya) is a poet, short story writer, literary critic, newspaper columnist and literary journalist. He teaches African literature and Creative Writing in the Department of English, Nasarawa State University. His other books are the Agatu Culture: Songs and Dances (2002), a study of oral poetry; Impotent Heavens (2004), a collection of short stories; Knifing Tongues (2005), a volume of poetry; and The Writings of Zaynab Alkali (2005), co-authored with Dr. Umelo Ojinmah). His review essays, academic articles and poems have been published in both local and international journals.
John Kinsella, Australia
John Kinsella born in 1963 in Perth, has studied at the University of WA and traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East the Asia, Editor of the poetry magazine Salt, he has published his own poetry in numerous periodicals and anthologies and in the collections Night Parrots (1989). The Book of Two Faces (1989), Eschatologies (1991) and Full Fathom Five (1993); SYZYGY, an experimental poem, was published separately in 1993. Kinsella also contributed , with Anthony Lawrence, to the volume Ultramarine (1991) and edited an anthology of verse from the magazine Salt, The Bird Catcher’s Song.
Stephan Gill, Canada
Poet Laureate of Ansted University, Stephen Gill is an expressive voice of Canada, India and Pakistan. Global peace and social concerns are the main areas of his interest.
Stephen Gill has authored more than twenty books, including novels, literary criticism, and collections of poems. Stephen Gill received awards and recognitions, including three honorary doctorates; and Laureate Man of Letters from United Poet Laureate International; Sahir Award of Honor from Sahir Cultural Society, Punjab, India; Plaque from the World Council of Asian Churches (Canada); Pegasus International Poetry of Peace Award (Poetry in the arts, Inc., Texas,); The Best Poet of Peace Award for the year 1993 from Roger Cable 11 (Canada); and The Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal.
Sheela Upadhya, India
Sheela Upadhyaya is a reputed scholar of English and former Principal, Govt. College, Jalore. She taught at Govt. College, Ajmer. She has strong interest in “New Literatures”. She is on the Editorial Board of Lemuria.
Jenna Mead, Australia
Jenna Mead is a senior lecturer in English in the University of Tasmania. She is a renowned scholar of Chaucer and Elizabethan Literature and has a deep interest in Indian philosophy and yoga. She keeps visiting yoga ashrams at Pune quite frequently.
Geoff Page, Australia
Geoff Page is an Australian poet who has published sixteen collections of poetry as well as two novels; two verse novels and several other works including anthologies, translations and a biography of the jazz musician, Bernie McGann. He retired at the end of 2001 from being in charge of the English Department at Narrabundah College in the ACT, apposition he had held since 1974. He has won several awards, including that ACT Poetry Award, the Grace Leven Prize, the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Poetry and the 2001 Patrick White Literary Aware. He has also read his work and talked on Australian poetry in Switzerland, Norway, Sweden Britain, Italy, Singapore, Chine, the United States and New Zealand.
Mark O'Connor, Australia
Mark O'Connor is one of
Australia’s best-known and most widely read poets, with more than a dozen
books published. He has been awarded a Fellowship by the Australia Council
to write poetry covering the 2000 Olympic Games and to coincide with this,
Dr John Leonard, editor of several major collections of contemporary
Australian poetry, has expertly collected the best of O’ Connor’s work over
three decades. Dr. Leonard has commented: ‘He is that rare thing, a
genuinely popular poet of real power and complexity.’
Bibhu Padhi, India
Bibhu Padhi teaches English at Denkanal Autonomous College, Denkanal, Orissa. He is the author of five volumes of poetry. His two volumes of poetry are in press. No volume of Contemporary Indian English poetry is complete without reference to his poetical works.
Niranjan Mohanty, India
Prof. Niranjan Mohanty of the Department of English and Other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, West Bengal is one of the leading poets of India. He has been quite prolific as nearly half a dozen collections have seen the light of the day during the last 5-6 years which include Silencing the Words, Oh, this Bloody Game!, Prayers to Lord Jagannathan, and Life Lines. This year two of his collections—Tiger & Other Poems and A House of Rains will shortly be out.
Jaydeep Sarangi, India
Jaydeep Sarangi teaches English in Sewa-Bharati Mahavidyalaya (Vidyasagar University), Kapgari, Dist-Midnapore West, West Bengal. He has edited a couple of critical books like Explorations in Australian Literature and Explorations in Indian English Poetry. Also, he is the editor of the research Journal—Seva Bharati Jouranal of English Studies.