The following persons participated in the discussion:

Argentina: Jan de Jager — poet, essayist and collaborator of the Argentine poetry review Diario de Poésia.
Germany: Heiko Strunk —translator and cultural magazine editor. Since early 1999 he has managed and edited the Internet platform lyrikline.
Indonesia: Taufiq Ismail — poet and literary editor. He is a co-founder and Senior Editor of the literary monthly Horison. He edited a four-volume, 2560 page anthology of Indonesian poetry, short stories, novel fragments and drama, entitled Horison Sastra Indonesia (The Horizon of Indonesian Literature).
Ireland: Joseph Woods — poet and Director of Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann, the National Organization for Poetry in Ireland.
Israel: Gabi Hadar — has been programme director of Mishkenot Sha’ananim Cultural Centre in Jerusalem since 1997.
Portugal: Ana Castro —works for the Portuguese Institute for Books and Libraries (IPLB), a division of the Ministry of Culture, where she heads a project for the promotion of Portuguese literature abroad.
Slovenia: Iztok Osojnik — is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, translator, artist, tour director and mountaineer. He has published 15 books of poetry and 3 novels, as well as essays on literature, anthropology and philosophy.
South Africa: Gus Ferguson — Scottish-born poet and a poetry publisher who runs and edits a poetry magazine, Carapace.
Sweden: Lars Hermansson — poet and critic and teacher of creative writing. He co-edits the poetry magazine Lyrikvännen.
Zimbabwe: Irene Staunton — literary publisher.
Netherlands: Maarten Asscher — moderator of the discussion. He is a poet, novelist, translator, former literary publisher and currently head of the Arts Department of the Dutch Culture Ministry.
Netherlands: Arnolda Jagersma — manager of the Poetry International Web project.
Netherlands: Erik Menkveld — poet, worked in literary publishing as a prose and poetry editor.
Netherlands: K. Michel — poet and editor of the literary journal Raster.

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