further lines of communication.Anna Mendelssohn An avant garde author, artist, and activist, Anna Mendelssohn was born in Stockport in Northern England in 1948. From the 1980s she studied and resided in Cambridge, publishing 15 poetry collections and contributing to landmark contemporary anthologies, among them, Denise Rileys Poets on Writing (1992) and Iain Sinclairs Conductors of Chaos (1996). In 1972, Mendelssohn was a defendant at the Stoke Newington Eight criminal trial of