Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with three children. Dart, her second volume, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002. Her third collection, Woods etc (both Faber and Faber), won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize 2006.
Andrew Motion was born in 1952. He read English at University College, Oxford and subsequently spent two years writing about the poetry of Edward Thomas for an M. Litt. He has been Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway since 2004. Andrew Motion was appointed as Poet Laureate in May 1999 and his latest collection of poems is Public Property. In The Blood is his autobiography (both Faber and Faber).
Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and came to England when she was a few months old. She grew up in Hertfordshire and studied at the universities of York and London. Moniza Alvi has written five poetry collections including A Bowl of Warm Air (1996), one of the Independent on Sunday’s Books of the Year and, most recently, Europa, a Poetry Book Society Choice, and Split World: Poems 1990-2005 (all Bloodaxe Books). In 2002 she received a Cholmondeley Award for her poetry.
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