Lionel Kearns was born on February 16, 1937, in Nelson, British Columbia.

He is a Canadian poet and teacher. He attended the University of British Columbia and, in 1964, he moved to England to study Structural Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. After a year of research on the West Indian island of Trinidad, he returned to Vancouver to join the English Department at the recently opened Simon Fraser University, where he taught until 1986. He spent 1981-1982 as Writer-in-Residence at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Since his first publication in 1959, Kearns’ poems, stories, and essays have continued to appear in magazines and anthologies, both Canadian and international. His work ranges from traditional page-bound pieces to more experimental and dynamic screen-based forms, e.g., "By the light of the silvery McLune: media parables, poems, signs, gestures, and other assaults on the interface" (1968), "Practicing up to be human" (1978), and "Convergences" (1984).

He continues to write and develop his art in Vancouver, where he lives with his wife Gerri Sinclair.

Born in County Tipperary, Ireland, Geoffrey Keating was educated abroad, where he was ordained to the Catholic priesthood. Returning to Ireland some time after 1621, he gained fame as a popular preacher and writer. His most important work was a history of Ireland up to the time of the English invasion, Foras Feasa ar Eirinn (1629). His Tri Bioghaoithe an Bhais ("Three shafts of Death"), a theological treatise on the conduct of life in relation to the advent of death, contains many anecdotes on Irish history and fragments of Irish verse. Like Keating's other works, it circulated widely in manuscript, and was printed in 1890.

John Keats; born 31 October 1795 in Moorgate, London; died 23 February 1821 in Rome; English Romantic poet. He was one of the main figures of the second generation of romantic poets along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, despite his work only having been in publication for four years before his death.