Andrew Johnston is a New Zealand poet who lives in Paris with his wife and two sons. He won the 1994 New Zealand Book Award for poetry for his first book, How to Talk; his most recent collection, Sol, was published in New Zealand in 2007 by Victoria University Press and in Britain in 2008 by Arc Publications. Robyn Marsack was born and grew up in Wellington, New Zealand, and lives in Glasgow with her family. She gained degrees from Victoria University in New Zealand and Oxford University, then worked as a publishers' editor until taking up the post of Director of the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh in 2000.

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