W. S. Milne was born in Aberdeen in 1953, and brought up in Woodside, Portlethen and Dyce. Educated in England, he teaches English and information processing at Merton College, Morden (South London). He has had poems and criticism published in various magazines in Scotland and England, and his other publications include the pamphlet Twa-Three Lines (Agenda Editions/Big little poems, 1987) and Aeschylus’s Agamemnon in Scots (Agenda Editions, 2002).