Wayne Burrows’ first collection Marginalia appeared from Peterloo Poets in 2001, and his second, a chapbook containg the first section of a sequence based on Francis Quarles’ Emblems, appeared from Shoestring Press in July 2009. His work has featured in the British Council anthologies New Writing 12 (Picador, 2004) and NW15 (Granta, 2007), as well as the Forward anthology for 2002 and many magazines and anthologies, most recently Poetry Review and Brittle Star. He also completed The Protein Songs, a sequence about genetics for use in Retina Dance Company’s Eleven Stories For The Body, Distance To Our Soul, and this ongoing sequence will form the core of a third collection. He took over the editorship of  Staple magazine in 2007 and currently lives in Nottingham.