Letters and messages of support
- IAN CROCKATT, translator
- PROFESSOR DANIEL WEISSBORT, former co-editor, with Ted Hughes, of Modern Poetry in Translation
- VIRGINIA FIRNBERG, composer and poet
- FRANCIS R JONES, translator
- TIMOTHY ADES, translator and poet
- NANCY MATTSON, poet
- STEVIE RONNIE, writer
- MICHAEL O'NEILL, Professor of English, Durham University
- CHARLES BOYLE, Publisher
- DAVID and HELEN CONSTANTINE, Editors Modern Poetry in Translation
- Professor PETER DICKINSON
- ALISON BRACKENBURY, poet and reviewer
- ANDREW FORSTER, Literature Officer, Wordsworth Trust
- ILDIKO TAKACS, Director, Cultural Counsellor, Hungarian Cultural Centre, London, President of EUNIC London Cluster
- IAN CROCKATT, poet
- DONALD GARDNER, poet and translator
- SHANTA ACHARYA, poet & organizer of the Lauderdale House poetry readings
- Professor JENNY WILLIAMS, Director, Centre for Translation and Textual Studies, Dublin City University
- The Foundation 'LYRIK KABINETT', Germany
- NANCY MATTSON, poet
- DR. SIMON JENNER (Editor-in-Chief), DR. NAOMI FOYLE (Marketing Director and Associate Editor) and JOHN O’DONOGHUE (Associate Editor), Waterloo Press
- FIONA SAMPSON, Editor, Poetry Review
- WILLIAM and PATRICIA OXLEY, Acumen Literary Journal
- ANDRAS GEREVICH, Hungarian poet, translator of poetry and literary organizer
- DAVID TAIT, reader (aged 25)
- PAT BORAN, The Dedalus Press (Ireland)
- JEFFREY WAINWRIGHT, poet
- ANNE-MARIE GLASHEEN, poet and translator.
- VICTOR RODRIGUEZ NUNEZ, Cuba-USA
- KEPA GONZALEZ, Cultural Director/Gestor cultural Instituto Cervantes Manchester & Leeds
- DAVID ROSE, writer
- MICHAEL HULSE, Associate Professor Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick; editor, The Warwick Review
- DR. ZOE SKOULDING, Editor, Poetry Wales
- KIT WRIGHT, poet
- SAMPURNA CHATTARJI, poet, Mumbai, India
- DORA KAROLYI Hungarian Book Foundation, Budapest
- INA MARTINOVA, Centre for Information on Literature
- ELAINE FEINSTEIN, poet, novelist, playwright, biographer & translator
- CHRISTOPHER PILLING, poet and translator
- MYRA SCHNEIDER, poet
- CHRIS JAMES, poet (Winner of National Poetry Competition 2008)
- RICHARD GWYN, poet and translator
- GEORGE GOMORI, translator
- AMARJIT CHANDAN, poet and translator
- BILL MANHIRE, writer (New Zealand)
- JOHN McAULIFFE, Senior Lecturer and Director, Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester
- MICHELE ROBERTS, writer, Professore Emeritus, UEA
- ALEXANDRA BUCHLER, Director, Literature Across Frontiers
- AMANDA DALTON, poet & playwright
- ISOBEL DIXON, poet, translator & literary agent
- RUTH CHRISTIE, translator
- MONIZA ALVI, poet
- CAROL RUMENS, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Bangor, Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, University of Hull, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Member of Academi, Member of the Soceity of Authors
- JONATHAN ASSER, poet
- TONY CURTIS, poet (Ireland)
- NIALL MUNRO Associate Lecturer and Weekly Poem Editor,
- SUSAN WICKS, poet, novelist & translator
- ANNA CROWE, poet & translator & co-founder of StAnza Poetry Festival
- ANDY CROFT, writer, poet & publisher
- AMAIA GABANTXO, Basque-English translator of Six Basque Poets
- VALERIE ROUZEAU, poet
- MARIA JASTRZEBSKA, poet, reader & teacher
- PHILIP MOSLEY, Professor of English and Comparative Literature
- ELZBIETA WOJCIK-LEESE, translator, University of Copenhagen, Centre of Internationalisation and Parallel Language Use
- ELEANOR LIVINGSTONE, Director, StAnza Poetry Festival (Scotland)
- JOHN HARTLEY WILLIAMS
- RUTH PADEL, poet
- KRISTIINA EHIN, poet, and ILMAR LEHTPERE, translator
- LIZ ALMOND, poet
- JOHN KINSELLA, writer, Arc Publications' International Poetry Editor
- ROBERT CHANDLER, translator from the Russian
- LINDA FRANCE, poet
- Professor HARRY G. AVELING (Australia), Distinguished Visiting Professor, Southeast Asian Studies Program, Center for International Studies, University of Ohio
- JACKIE WILLS, poet, Royal Literary Fund Fellow University of Surrey 2009-10; University of Sussex 2010-12
- RUTH FAINLIGHT, poet
- JENNIFER and MICHAEL FREEMAN, poetry readers
- TIINA ALEMAN, poet & translator (USA / Estonia)
- THOMAS A. CLARK, poet
- DR. JOE MURRAY, Glasgow
- DORIS KAREVA, poet & translator (Estonia)
- LORNA THORPE, poet
- CHRISSIE GITTINS, poet & short story writer
- LARISSA MILLER, member Russian Pen Centre, author of Guests of Eternity, Poetry Book Society Recommendation, 2008; BORIS ALTSHULER, theoretical physicist, Russian human rights defender, and poetry reader
- CLIVE SCOTT, Professor Emeritus of European Literature, School of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia
- DONALD ATKINSON, Winner of First Prizes in the 1988 Peterloo Poets and TLS Cheltenham Festival poetry competitions, and the Sheffield Thursday poetry competion of 1994
- WILL STONE, poet & literary translator
- KATHERINE GALLAGHER, poet and translator
- NEIL ASTLEY, editor & managing director, Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- ELIZABETH SMITHER, New Zealand poet laureate, 2001-3; Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement 2008; Hon D Litt (Auckland) 2008
- ANTHONY RUDOLF, Publisher Menard Press 1969-2009
- EUGENIJUS ALISANKA, The Vilnius Review (magazine, published in English), editor-in-chief, Member of the Board of the Lithuanian Writers' Union
- PATRICK McGUINNESS Professor of French and Comparative Literature St Anne's College, University of Oxford, Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques
- RACHEL MIKOS, translator
- MARY O'DONNELL, poet, short-story writer, novelist, essayist, journalist, broadcaster & translator (Ireland)
- TIMOTHY ADES, translator
- ASTRID van BAALEN, poet
- EDMUND PRESTWICH, poet
- MARIA GRECH GANADO, Maltese poet
- STEVE DEARDEN
- JOANNA BOULTER, poet & editor, Arrowhead Press
- WILLEM GROENEWEGEN, translator
- JOHN WELCH, poet, translator and publisher
- Professor DARIO BEZZANTI (Milan, Italy)
- ELBA GANOPOL, attorney (Buenos Aires)
- FERNANDO KOFMAN, poet (Buenos Aires)
- TONY ELLIS, founder / chairman King's Lynn Poetry Festival
- KRISTIN DIMITROVA, poet (Bulgaria)
- RICHARD McKANE, poet & translator
- Professor TONY HOWARD, Department of English, Warwick University
- RICHARD DOVE, poet & translator
- KEKI DARUWALLA, poet (India)
- MUGE SOKMEN, publisher (Turkey)
- RICHARD BERENGARTEN, Bye-Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge, Praeceptor, Corpus Christi College, Academic Associate, Pembroke Col
- JOHN GREENING
- ELISABETE TOLARETXIPI, poet (Spain)
- LUDWIG STEINHERR, Schriftsteller, Mitglied der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste, München
- MICHELENE WANDOR, poet & playwright
- CAROL DRINKWATER, writer / actress / filmmaker
- THOMAS MOHLMANN, Dutch Foundation for Literature; Editor at Poetry International Web and Lyrikline.org
- DAVID BLACK, poet
- DAIVA PARULSKIENE, Cultural attaché, Lithuanian Embassy in the UK
- GEORGE SZIRTES, poet & translator
- LAIMA SRUOGINIS, Poetry Translator, Lithuania
- C.K. STEAD ONZ, CBE, FRSL, Professor Emeritus, University of Auckland
- MARTIN SORRELL, Emeritus Professor of French and Literary Translation, University of Exeter
- TOM PAULIN, poet and critic
- LIESBETH HUIJER, Oslo, Norway
- SYLVIA PETTER, an Australian in Austria
- SASHA DUGDALE, poet & translator