This collection introduces nine talented newcomers: Shirley Bell, Patricia Doubell, Mimi Khalvati, Felicity Napier, Bibhu Padhi (India), William Palmer, Petra Regent, Valerie Thornton and Gerard Woodward. In a novel twist for such anthologies, it also presents a new foreign voice with versions by Ruth Christie and Richard McKane of the Turkish poet Oktay Rifat. Graham Fawcett (b. 1946), is a writer and broadcaster.