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| Meet the Contributors Patricia Ace’s pamphlet First Blood was published by HappenStance Press in 2006. Her first
full collection, Fabulous
Beast, was published by Freight Books in March 2013. She has
been placed and won prizes in many national poetry competitions. Her
poem ‘Papa Joe’ won the Plough Poetry Prize in 2010 and ‘Saying
goodbye to my daughter at night’ was selected for the online
anthology 20 Best Scottish
Poems 2013. Since 2013 she has been collaborating with Edinburgh
artist, Lindy Furby, to produce poetry postcards as part of The Written Image project. Her work is featured in Be the First to Like This: New
Scottish Poetry, edited by Colin Waters and published in 2014. Afam
Akeh is Founder and Director of the Centre for African Poetry. His first
book of poems, Stolen Moments, was published in 1988. He is
also the author of Letter Home and Biafran Nights (2012).
Akeh has won or been listed for awards in poetry, the short story
and journalism. In his many years of editorial practice, he has
interviewed leading African authors, also assisting publishers of
African literature in curating and reviewing work by these authors.
Founding Editor of African Writing Online, he has presented
his work at international literary events, the BBC and various UK
venues. Ghosts, his third collection of poems is expected in
2015. Roselle Angwin is a poet and author based near Dartmoor. She leads
workshops, courses and retreats in writing and ecopsychology in
Southwest Britain, the Hebrides, and France. www.fire-in-the-head.co.uk www.thewildways.co.uk William Ayot is a poet, author,
ritualist, and teacher. His three collections of poetry include E-mail from the Soul, (PS Avalon) which won the People’s Book Prize.
He currently runs “On the Border”, a poetry series, in Chepstow and
is poet-in-residence at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. www.williamayot.com Catherine Ayres is a teacher, living and working in Northumberland.
Her poems have appeared in Ink, Sweat & Tears, Spontaneity, Domestic
Cherry, Prole and The Moth. She recently came third in Ambit
magazine’s “Under the Influence” competition. Her poetry often
explores difference and how loss can separate a person from one
world and lead them to another. Nnorom Azuonye studied Dramatic Arts at the University of Nigeria
and has worked as an actor, scene designer and theatre director. A
widely published writer, publisher, and Methodist Local Preacher, he
founded Sentinel Poetry Movement in 2002 and is the founding Chief
Executive Officer and Publishing Director of SPM Publications – an
imprint of Sentinel Writing & Publishing Company Limited. Author of Letter to God & Other Poems,
The Bridge Selection: Poems for the Road, and Funeral of the Minstrel (a
play), his poems, short stories, interviews and essays have appeared
in Opon Ifa, African Writing,
Agenda, Orbis, and DrumVoices Revue, Flair, and For the Love of God among other publications. Website: www.nnoromazuonye.com Maxine Backus is originally from Leicester, now living near Zurich.
She studied Philosophy and Poetry in English (M. Phil., Stirling).
She has worked mainly as a translator and interpreter in the banking
industry, has run creative writing classes in England and
Switzerland and taught poetry at university level. Maxine has
self-published two collections of poetry in English, with German
translations. S.M.Beckett. Artist-Poet S.M Beckett
has been writing poetry for several years and has participated in
many public poetry readings. Her poetry has been featured in Maco
Magazine, Wings of Desire Catalogue, Malaleuca and she was
designated Poet of the Month in the December issue of Caught in
the Net, the Poetry Kit’s online site. James Bell has published two poetry
collections the just vanished place (2008) and fishing for beginners (2010), both from tall-lighthouse. Born in
Scotland he now lives in Brittany where he contributes articles and
photographs to an English language journal and continues to publish
poems nationally and internationally with recent print appearances
in: The Journal, Elbow Room,
Shearsman, Tears In The Fence, Under The Radar and Upstairs at Du
Roc. Jim Bennett, has written 74 books and numerous chapbooks and
pamphlets in a 48 year career as a poet. Jim lives near
Liverpool in the UK and tours giving readings of his work throughout
the year. He is widely published and has won many competitions
and awards for poetry and performance. He runs one of the world’s
most successful internet sites for poets; www.poetrykit.org Linda Black received the 2004/5 Poetry School Scholarship and
won the 2006 New Writing Ventures Award for Poetry. The beating
of wings (Hearing Eye, 2006) was the PBS Pamphlet Choice for
Spring 2007, when she also received an Arts Council Writer’s Award.
Her collections are Inventory and Root, (Shearsman
2008 & 2011) and The Son of a Shoemaker (Hearing Eye 2012).
The latter consists of collaged prose-poems, based on the early life
of Hans Christian Andersen, plus the author’s pen and ink
illustrations. It was the subject of a Poetry Society exhibition in
April 2013. She is co-editor of Long Poem Magazine www.longpoemmagazine.org.uk Peter Branson lives in Rode Heath, East Cheshire. A former teacher
and lecturer, Peter is well known in the region as a
traditional-style singer, songwriter and poet. His poetry has been
accepted for publication by many journals in Britain,
the USA, Canada, Ireland, Australasia and South Africa. He has
won and been placed in quite a few poetry competitions over recent
years, including The Grace Dieu, The Petra Kenny, The Envoi and The
Wigtown. His latest book, Red Hill, Selected Poems, 2000-2012, by
Lapwing, Ireland, came out in May 2013. Lesley Burt lives in Christchurch,
Dorset. Her poetry has been published online and in magazines and
anthologies including Tears in
the Fence, The
Interpreters House, Sarasvati and The Cinnamon Anthology. Her chapter, ‘Considering connotation: the
impact and implications of language in poetry’ is included in Teaching Creative Writing (2012) ed. Elaine Walker. She is currently a student undertaking an
MA in Creative Writing (Distance Learning) at Lancaster University. David
Caddy‘s most recent books include The Bunny Poems (Shearsman Books, 2011), So Here We Are (Shearsman Books,
2012) and Cycling After Thomas And The English (Spout Hill
Books, 2013). He edits Tears in the Fence magazine, writes
criticism, organises writing workshops, a poetry reading series, and
directs an annual poetry festival. Judith Cair was born in Somerset.
She has worked as a potter in rural potteries and as a teacher in an
urban middle school. In 2013 a pamphlet of her poetry, The Ship’s
Eye, was published by Pighog Press. She has also written
articles for Artemis on modern interpretations of classical
texts. R. T. Calway is Anglo-Welsh and has worked much of her life
outdoors, but found time for an Open University degree and a
Master’s at Cardiff University. For ten years she ran her own
arboriculture business. A selection of her prose and verse was
published in the anthology Black Waves in Cardiff Bay (Cinnamon,
2008). She has been short-listed for several literary prizes
including the Impress Prize in 2012. Michael Cantor’s full-length collection, Life in the Second
Circle (Able Muse Press, 2012), was a finalist for the 2013
Massachusetts Book Award for Poetry. A chapbook, The Performer,
was published in 2007. His work has appeared in The Dark
Horse, Measure, Raintown Review, SCR, Chimaera, The Flea,
and numerous other journals and anthologies. A native New
Yorker, he has lived and worked in Japan, Latin America and Europe,
and presently divides his time between Plum Island, MA, and Santa
Fe, NM. Amarjit Chandan has published seven collections of poetry and three books of essays
in Punjabi and two in English Sonata for Four Hands prefaced
by John Berger (Arc, 2010). His work has appeared in many
anthologies including in the periodicals including in Arabic,
Brazilian-Portuguese, Greek, Italian, Romanian and Turkish. He was
amongst British poets on Radio 4 selected by Andrew Motion on
National Poetry Day in 2001. He has participated in the Aldeburgh,
Ledbury, King’s Lynn and Winchester and Didim Poetry Festivals held
in the UK and Turkey respectively. Helen Clare. In a previous life Helen Clare was a science
teacher – she now works on projects which combine science poetry and
learning, including a poetry residency at the Museum of Science and
Industry in Manchester. Her published work includes Mollusc (Comma,
2004) and Entomology (Happenstance 2014) and her poems have won a
number of national prizes, including First Prize in the London
Writers Competition 2002, and Runner Up in the Daily
Telegraphy/Arvon Competition 2000 www.helenclare.co.uk A C Clarke is based in Glasgow. Her latest collections are A Natural Curiosity, (New Voices Press), shortlisted for the
2012 Callum Macdonald Award, and Fr Meslier’s Confession (Oversteps Books). She was one of 17 poets commissioned to write a
poem for the Mirrorball Commonwealth Poetry Anthology The Laws of the Game and
is currently working on a fourth collection. Jeff Cloves is a pop poet hack self-publisher. Nick Cooke lives and works in
London as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language. In addition to
his poems, some of which have been published in Sentinel Literary Quarterly
and Dream Catcher, he writes novels, plays, film scripts, and
occasional literary criticism. In 2004 he published an article on
John Updike in the quarterly Arete, edited by Craig Raine. He is also a music enthusiast
and from 2006 to 2010 was the songwriter, vocalist and rhythm
guitarist in a post-punk band called Live Wires.’ Rachael Clyne lives in Glastonbury. She has been published in The
Stare’s Nest, IMPpress, Nutshells ‘n Nuggetts, Domestic Cherry and
the anthologies The Listening Walk, The Book of Love and Loss. Two collections She Who Walks With Stones and Sings, Singing at the Bone Tree are published by Indigo Dreams. In 2013
she won the Geoff Stevens Memorial prize. www.rachelclyne.co Richard Copeland has been writing on and off for about thirty years and has been
published in various poetry magazines, including Envoi, The Black
Mountain Review (Northern Ireland, sadly now defunct) and The
Frogmore Papers. He is the Poetry Society’s Stanza Rep for North
Hertfordshire (Poetry ID). Anthony Costello is a poet, writer and
translator. His first book of poems, The Mask, was published by
Lapwing in 2014. The Poems of Alain-Fournier, a collaborative
translation project with Anita Marsh and Anthony Howell, is
forthcoming in 2015 with Anvil Press. Anna Crowe. Poet, translator of
Catalan and Mexican poetry, she is co-founder and former Artistic
Director of StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival.
Peterloo published two full collections, and her Mariscat
collection, Figure in a Landscape, won the Callum Macdonald
Memorial Award and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. Her latest book
of translations, Peatlands, features the work of the Mexican
poet, Pedro Serrano (Arc 2014). In 2005 she received a Travelling
Scholarship from the Society of Authors. Caroline Davies’s first collection Convoy was
published by Cinnamon Press in 2013. She was born in Norfolk to
Welsh parents and spent much of her childhood by the sea. Convoy was inspired by the experiences of her grandfather, James ‘Jim’
Honeybill, who served on the Blue Funnel Line ship M.V. Ajax during
the Malta convoys and also by her mother’s stories of growing up in
North Wales. She blogs occasionally at http://advancingpoetry.blogspot.com/ Celia Dixie is a member of the Sussex-based
Green Room Poets. For many years she has met up regularly with two
novelist friends to write together and spur each other on. Spencer Edgar has always enjoyed writing poetry. His first book,
White Orchid, is a collection stretching back 14 years capturing
rites of passage where love is lost and found. When not
contemplating grand design he works as a healthcare professional in
the NHS. He lives with his partner and three children in Stroud in
Gloucestershire. Roger Elkin has won 45 First Prizes and several awards internationally, including
the Sylvia Plath Award for Poems about Women, and the Howard Sergeant Memorial Award for Services to Poetry (1987). His 11
collections include Fixing
Things (2012); Marking
Time (2012); Bird in the
Hand (2012); Chance Meetings (2014). Editor of Envoi,
(1991-2006), he is available for readings, workshops and poetry
competition adjudication. Martin Elster, author of There’s a Dog in the Heavens!, is also a composer
and serves as percussionist for the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. His
poems have appeared in Astropoetica, The Flea, The Martian Wave,
The Rotary Dial, and the anthologies Taking Turns: Sonnets
from Eratosphere, The 2012 Rhysling Anthology, and New Sun Rising:
Stories for Japan. Martin’s poem, “Walking With the Birds and
the Bones Through Fairview Cemetery” received first place in the
Thomas Gray Anniversary Poetry Competition 2014, and “Talcott
Mountain” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize by The Chimaera. Ututu Emmanuel is a Nigerian poet. He is an enthusiastic reader and
has also writes short stories. He is currently a student of the
Federal University of Technology Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. Joe Fearn is a graduate of Hull
University and The University of Leicester. He was shortlisted for
the Smith/Doorstop poetry book prize in 2013. He lives and works in
Hull. Rachel J Fenton was born in the UK in 1976 and currently lives in
New Zealand. Her poems have been shortlisted for numerous prizes,
including the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Science
Writing. AKA Rae Joyce, she is an AUT award winning graphic poet and
is currently participating in the NZ Book Council’s Graphic Novelist
Exchange Residency with Taiwan in association with PANZ and TIBE,
and is a registered mentor with the NZ Society of Authors. She blogs
at snowlikethought.blogspot.co.nz John Freeman’s most recent collection is White Wings: New and Selected Prose Poems (Contraband, 2014). Others
include A Suite for Summer (Worple), and The Light Is Of Love, I Think: New and Selected Poems (Stride). He
taught for many years at Cardiff University. Website:
http://www.johnfreemanpoetry.co.uk Kate Firth. Previously an actress, Kate Firth’s first pamphlet, Venus Reborn was published in 2013 by Chrysalis. She has performed at The Cheltenham and Bristol Poetry Festivals. She has also been published in three anthologies: Lacuna, In Protest (100 Poems for Human Rights) and a Star in the Heart. She is also voice coach for actors, broadcasters and in the non-profit and business sectors. She also runs performance skills workshops for poets, including the Winchester Poetry Festival.
Caron Freeborn used to write novels (Three Blind Mice,
Abacus 2001 and Prohibitions, Abacus 2004), but after one of
her children was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, all words
stopped together. When eventually the words came slithering
back, she was amazed to find they were no longer prose, but poetry.
Her first poetry collection, Georges Perec is my hero, is
published by Circaidy Gregory Press, 2015. Rose Flint is a writer and artist.
She works as a poet in healthcare, in both communities and
hospitals, taking poetry into many different wards and units. She
won both the Cardiff and the Petra Kenney International Poetry
Competition in 2008 and other awards include two Poetry Places. Her
fifth collection, A Prism for
the Sun, is published by Oversteps. Margie Gaffron has written and published a volume of poetry
(Holdings) and her work has appeared in a variety of magazines
including The Progressive, Friends Journal, and Pivot. She has given
poetry workshops and read her work in a variety of bookstores,
coffee shops and college campuses. In 2012 she initiated the Fourth Friday Poetry Series at the
Green Drake Art Center in Millheim, Pa. This series features
readings by local writers as well as poets from outside the
immediate area. Charlotte Gann is a freelance writer and editor from Sussex. Her
poetry pamphlet, The Long Woman (Pighog), was shortlisted for
the 2012 Michael Marks Award. Frances Gapper’s flash fiction booklet The Tiny Key was
published in 2009 by Sylph Editions and Absent Kisses, a
story collection, in 2002 by Diva Books. She has stories in two
issues of Short Fiction (University of Plymouth Press), in
the Summer 2013 issue of Ireland-based magazine The Moth and
in the London Magazine online. Her tiny story Bluebeard’s
Daughter won a competition run jointly by Creative Industries
Trafford and the Manchester Literature Festival in autumn 2013.
Other flashes appear in an anthology published in 2014 by
Illinois-based Twelve Winters and in the Reader’s Digest. Vanessa Gebbie is a novelist, poet, short fiction
writer, editor and freelance creative writing tutor. Her poetry has
won the Troubadour and Sussex Poets competitions, and her pamphlet
The Half-life of Fathers (Pighog) was selected by the TLS among the
best of 2014. She is recipient of an Arts Council Grant for the Arts
for her writing, a Hawthornden International Fellowship and a
Gladstone’s Library Residency. www.vanessagebbie.com Caroline Gill’s poetry chapbook, The Holy Place, co-authored with John
Dotson, was published by The Seventh Quarry (Swansea) in conjunction
with Cross-Cultural Communications (New York) in 2012. Caroline has
won several prizes, including the international Petra Kenney Poetry
Competition (General Section) in 2007 and the debut Zoological
Society of London (ZSL) Poetry Competition in 2013. Three poems were
included in The Book of Forms: A Handbook
of Poetics, Including Odd and Invented Forms by Lewis Putnam Turco (UPNE 2011). Website: www.carolinegillpoetry.com Kay Green is the administrator of Earlyworks Press, a club for
writers and illustrators, best known for its poetry and fiction
competitions. She was formerly an English teacher and has also been
a writer of fantasy fiction for most of her adult life. Her first
story collection, ‘Jung’s People’ was published by Elastic Press in
2004, and later re-released by her own Circaidy Gregory Press after
she strayed into small press publishing. Her poetry, stories and
articles have appeared in a range of magazines and collections. Jan Harris lives in Nottinghamshire and writes poetry, flash
fiction and short stories. Her work has appeared in 14
Magazine, nth Position, Popshot, Mslexia and other places. Marc Harshman’s full-length poetry collection, GREEN-SILVER AND SILENT was published by Bottom Dog, OH in 2012 and four chapbooks include ROSE OF SHARON, Mad River, MA. Periodical publications: The Georgia Review, The Progressive, Appalachian Heritage, Poetry Salzburg Review, Emerson Review, and Shenandoah. Poems anthologized: Kent State University, the University of Iowa, University of Georgia, and the University of Arizona. Eleven children’s books have been published and three more titles are forthcoming.
Mark Haworth-Booth is the author of Wild Track: poems with pictures by friends (2006). He is a Green Party activist and lives in North Devon.
Tania Hershman is the author of two story collections: My Mother
Was An Upright Piano: Fictions (Tangent Books, 2012), and The
White Road and Other Stories (Salt, 2008). Tania’s poetry has
been published in Magma, Butcher’s Dog, Obsessed with Pipework,
Poems in Which and Amaryllis. Tania is founder and curator of
ShortStops (www.shortstops.info),
celebrating short story activity across the UK & Ireland and
is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
She is co-writer and editor of Writing Short Stories: A Writers’ &
Artists’ Companion (Bloomsbury, Dec 2014). www.taniahershman.com Alison Hill has published two collections, Peppercorn Rent
(Flarestack, 2008) and Slate Rising (Indigo Dreams, 2014) and is
currently working on a third. She founded and runs Rhythm & Muse and
was Kingston Libraries’ first Poet in Residence. She also writes
plays and flash fiction. Norbert Hirschhorn is a public health physician, commended by President
Bill Clinton as an “American Health Hero.” He lives in London and
Beirut. He has published four collections: A Cracked River (Slow Dancer Press, London, 1999), Mourning in the Presence of a
Corpse (Dar al-Jadeed, Beirut, 2008), Monastery of the Moon (Dar al-Jadeed, Beirut, 2012), and To Sing Away the Darkest Days.
Poems Re-imagined from Yiddish Folksongs (Holland Park
Press, London, 2013). His poems have appeared in numerous US/UK
publications, several as prize-winning. Website: www.bertzpoet.com. Bill Holdsworth was born in London 1929. He is a professional engineer who has balanced architectural and city planning, climatic adaptive engineering solutions with community politics and the arts. He kick-started the 1960’s UK-wide arts movement CENTRE 42 and brought in playwright Arnold Wesker (Sir) on board. He has led a long eclectic life as a world-wide lecturer, writer, author, poet and journalist and is a travelling man. He has won awards for his poetry in Hertfordshire. Broadcast on BBC radio London as well as in Hungary & Greece and published in Transatlantic Review, Global Tapestry along with poetry readings in the USA, Australia, and The Netherlands. LIFELINES a collection of his poetry & prose was published September 2013 under his own imprint of PHOENIX Publishing. Penny Hope is a teacher based in Sussex. She has poems
published in a variety of magazines, and is a member of the Green
Room Poets. Neil
Howell has recently retired after many years in the IT
industry and is now focussing his attention and experience on
community projects and change. He has also had a long interest
in poetry and with the time now have available has been writing some
poems himself. In 2013 he came up with a way of combining
these two interests. He decided to take a news headline from
each day and write something about it in verse. The result was
a fascinating picture of ‘change’ through the year. Georgi Y. Johnson. Spiritual teacher and author
Georgi Y. Johnson was born in Sheffield in 1967. After graduating in
English Literature from Oxford, she moved to Israel where she now
lives with her partner Bart and her seven children. Georgi teaches
worldwide on nonduality, awakening and perception. She is author of:
I AM HERE – Opening the Windows to Life & Beauty, a book inquiring
into consciousness, awareness and emptiness as forms of perception. Strider Marcus Jones – a poet, law graduate and ex civil servant from
Salford, England with proud Celtic roots in Ireland and Wales. A
member of The Poetry Society, his five published books of poetry are
modern, traditional, mythical, sometimes romantic, surreal and
metaphysical. His poetry has been published in over forty
publications including: A New Ulster Magazine; The Screech Owl;
Degenerates Voices For Peace Anthology; The Huffington Post USA;
mgv2 Publishing Anthology; Deep Water Literary Journal; The Stray
Branch Literary Magazine; East Coast Literary Review and Crack The
Spine Literary Magazine. https://stridermarcusjonespoetry.wordpress.com/is Oonah V Joslin is current poetry editor at The Linnet’s Wings. She
lives in Northumberland, England. Siham Karami co-owns a technology recycling company and lives in
Florida, USA. Her poetry has been or will be published in Measure, Unsplendid, String Poet, Angle Poetry, Postcard Poetry and
Prose, Kin Poetry Journal, The Amsterdam Quarterly, Shot Glass
Journal, Snakeskin, Innisfree Journal, and The Centrifugal
Eye, among other places. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and
has won the Laureates’ Prize in the Maria W. Faust sonnet contest. Wendy Klein is US
born but has lived in the UK most of her adult life. A retired
family therapist and family mediator, she is published in many
magazines and journals including Mslexia, The North, Smiths
Knoll, The Interpreter’s House, Artemis, Oxford Poetry, Seam, and The South. Winner of the Buxton, the Havant and the
‘Sonnet or Not’ Poetry competitions in 2014, she is published in
many anthologies, including The Book of Love and Loss and the
forthcoming Raving Beauties. Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé is the author of the epistolary novel, Singular Acts
of Endearment, as well as three poetry collections. Founding editor
of Squircle Line Press, Desmond has edited over fifteen books and
co-produced three audio books. His honors include the PEN American
Center Shorts Prize, Swale Life Poetry Prize, Notre Dame Poetry
Fellowship, NAC Creation Grant, Gardens-by-the-Bay Residency,
Singapore International Foundation Grant, and Little Red Tree Poetry
Prize, among other awards. Camilla Lambert has had poems published in ‘SOUTH’, ‘Interpreter’s House’, ‘Sentinel
Literary Quarterly and ‘Poetry Cornwall’, also in several
anthologies. A number have been placed or highly commended in
competitions. She co-edited an anthology of poems ‘Island Voices’
(2010). In 2012 she gained an Open University First Class Honours
degree in Literature with Creative Writing. Her first pamphlet is to
be published by Indigo Dreams Publishing towards the end of 2015. Martha Landman. South African born
poet Martha Landman lives in North Queensland, Australia where she
practices as a psychologist. She has been supporting the work of Medicins Sans Frontieres for many years. Her work has appeared in various online journals and
anthologies, including Mused,
Camel Saloon, New Verse News, Jellyfish Whispers, Eunoia Review and Blood on the
Floor. Andie Lewenstein‘s poems are published in Scintilla,
Cinnamon Press, Blinking eye, Obsessed With Pipework, Poetry South
East, Artemis and Railroad Poetry. She was co-director of the
Poetry OtherWise conference in Sussex. Lin Lundie lives and writes on the South Coast
and writes a poetry diary. She is a textile artist, and her special
interests are antique lace and interior design. She runs a poetry
group, ‘The River Poets’, in Arundel, West Sussex. Christina Lloyd. Born in Hong Kong, raised in the Philippines and
educated in the United States, Christina Lloyd holds an MA in
Hispanic languages and literatures from U.C. Berkeley, and an MA in
creative writing from Lancaster University. In addition to a couple
of pamphlets published in the States, her work appears in various
journals, The North among them. Alison Lock is a writer of short stories and poetry. Her first
collection, A Slither of Air was published in 2011; a short story
collection, Above the Parapet, in 2013; and a forthcoming poetry
collection, Beyond Wings, 2015. Her work is published in many
journals and anthologies – including her competition winning stories
in Sentinel Champions. www.alisonlock.com Rupert Loydell is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing
at Falmouth University the editor of Stride magazine, and a
Contributing Editor to International Times. His many books of poetry
include The Return Of The Man Who Has Everything (Shearsman 2015)
and Ballads of the Alone (Shearsman 2013). Lennart Lundh is a poet, short-fictionist, historian, and
photographer. His work has appeared internationally since 1965, Len
and his wife, Lin, live near Chicago.
Anna Lunt has written poems as a
personal journal for a number of years. In 2014, her husband
Anthony, who is a psychotherapist, asked her to publish her
anthology Poems of the Infinite and Eternal as a companion volume to his book Avision – The Way of the Dream.
Anna and Anthony have five children. Linus Łyszkowska, who was born in Scotland in 1926, grew up in Bridge of Allan, Stirlingshire. She and her Polish husband, Marian, lived for many happy years in Brazil. Now widowed, she has been living in Cambridge since 2000. She began to write poetry in 2009.
Caroline Maldonado lives in London and Italy. Her poems have been
accepted in a wide range of magazines including Iota, Orbis, Tears
in the Fence and Agenda, as well as in anthologies and online.
Poetry publications include What they say in Avenale (Indigo
Dreams Publishing 2014) and a co-translation from Italian of the
poetry of Rocco Scotellaro, Your call keeps us awake,
published by Smokestack Books (May 2013). Alwyn Marriage’s poetry is widely
published in magazines and anthologies, and three of her seven
published books have been poetry. She has won and been placed in a number of competitions, and
held Poet in Residence posts with Ballet Rambert and with the
Winchester Arts Festival. She is Managing Editor of Oversteps Books,
holds a research fellowship at the University of Surrey, and gives
readings all over Britain and abroad. Previously she has been a
university lecturer, chief executive of two NGOs, a Rockefeller
International Scholar and Editor of a journal. Paul Matthews, poet, teacher and gymnast has taught for many years
at Emerson College. He is renowned for helping poets and writers,
even the most anxious, to work with and develop their creative
voice. His inspiring books, Sing Me the Creation, and Words in Place
(both from Hawthorn Press) contain numerous exercises to nurture the
creative process and bring language alive between people. The Ground
that Love Seeks and Slippery Characters (Five Seasons Press) are
gatherings of his poetry. See www.paulmatthewspoetry.co.uk Pansy Maurer-Alvarez was born in Puerto
Rico, did her literary studies at universities in the US,
Switzerland and Spain and now lives and writes in France. Her work has appeared in numerous publications across Europe
and the US and in several anthologies. Some poems have been
translated into French, German and Spanish. Her latest poetry collection is In a Form of Suspension (corrupt press, Paris, 2014) and she has 4 previous collections. She is a contributing
editor to the British magazine, Tears in the Fence and
curates the monthly reading series Poets Live in Paris. John McCullough’s first collection of poems The Frost Fairs (Salt,
2011) won the Polari First Book Prize. It was a Book of the Year for
The Independent and The Poetry School, and a summer read for The
Observer. He lives in Hove. Gill McEvoy runs regular, and occasional, poetry events in
Chester. Two collections have been published by Cinnamon Press: “The
Plucking Shed” 2010, “Rise”, 2013. Her third pamphlet from
Happenstance Press, “The First Telling”, has just been published.
She is a Hawthornden Fellow. Jehanne Mehta is a singer-songwriter and poet, who writes performs
and records songs and poems for the Earth Soul and Spirit.Website www.jehannemehta.com Diana Mitchener (M.A. Creative Writing, 2000) is an active participant in poetry
workshops in West Sussex . She published ‘Ten Poems for Performance’
and a further selection of her poems in ‘Corncockle’ in 2009.
‘Holding the Line – a life’ (Leaf Books, 2011) recreates the
experiences of wartime evacuation in Shropshire and traces its
life-long effects. www.corncockle.co.uk Helen Moore is an award-winning ecopoet. Her debut collection, Hedge Fund, And Other Living Margins (Shearsman Books, 2012)
will be followed by ECOZOA, described by John Kinsella as “a
milestone in the journey of ecopoetics”. It will be published
by Permanent Publications in March 2015. Mary E. Moore is a retired physician who began seriously writing
poetry after her retirement from a career in Rheumatology. Her
poems have been widely published and a selection can be seen on her
website, http://www.maryemoorepoetry.com Kyle Norwood is the winner of the 2014 Morton Marr Poetry Prize from Southwest Review. His poems have also appeared or will soon appear in Innisfree Poetry Journal, Right Hand Pointing, Seneca Review, and elsewhere. After earning a doctorate in English at UCLA, he taught for many years in the public high school system in Los Angeles, where he still lives.
Chris O’Carroll is a writer and an actor. His poems have
appeared in 14 by 14, Life and Legends, Light, Measure, The New Verse News, and Umbrella,
among other print and online journals, and in the anthologies The
Best of the Barefoot Muse and 20 Years at the Cantab Lounge. Dr Tunde Oseni bagged a First Class
Honours degree in Political Science from Nigeria’s premier
University of Ibadan, where he was a MacArthur Foundation scholar at
the University of Ghana, Legon in 2005. He earned an MSc at the
prestigious University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and Doctorate and
at the University of Exeter, where he taught for three years. He is
currently a University Lecturer and Consultant in Nigeria. Patrick B. Osada works
as an editor, writes reviews of poetry for magazines and is a member
of the Management Team for SOUTH Poetry Magazine. His first
collection, Close to the Edge was published in 1996 &
won the prestigious Rosemary Arthur Award. His second
collection, Short Stories : Suburban Lives and his
last volume, Rough Music, have been published in
England by Bluechrome. His current collection, Choosing the Route, has been published in England by Indigo Dreams Publishing. His website is www.poetry-patrickosada.co.uk Irena Pasvinter divides her time between software engineering,
endless family duties and writing poetry and fiction. Her stories
and poems have appeared in online magazines (Every Day Poets, Every
Day Fiction, Madswirl, Camroc Press, Fiction 365, Rose & Thorn and
others) and in Poetry Quarterly. She is currently working on her
never-ending first novel. Mario Petrucci is a PhD physicist and ecologist intensely active at the literature-ecology-science membrane, generating groundbreaking educational resources and poetry that meets issues of searing social, linguistic and personal relevance with innovation and humanity. Mario Petrucci’s work aspires to “Poetry on a geological scale” (Verse). Heavy Water: a poem for Chernobyl (Enitharmon, 2004) secured the Daily Telegraph/ Arvon Prize and “inflicts… the finest sort of shock… to the conscience, to the soul” (Poetry London). i tulips (Enitharmon, 2010) takes its name from his vast Anglo-American sequence of 1111 poems, hailed by the Poetry Book Society as “modernist marvels”.
Jay Ramsay is the author of 35 books of poetry, non-fiction,
and classic Chinese translation with Martin Palmer. His latest
publications are Agistri Notebook (KFS, 2014), Monuments (Waterloo Press, 2014), and Shu Jing—the Book of History (Penguin Classics, 2014). He is also poetry editor of Caduceus magazine, and works in private practice as a UKCP accredited
psychotherapist and healer, also running personal development
workshops worldwide (www.jayramsay.co.uk.) Susan Richardson is a poet, performer
and educator, with two collections, Creatures of the Intertidal
Zone and Where the Air is
Rarefied, from Cinnamon Press. Her third collection, skindancing, themed around
human-animal metamorphosis and exploring our dys/functional
relationship with the wild, will be published in 2015. She has
performed at literary, environmental and science festivals
throughout the UK, for organisations such as WWF and Friends of the
Earth, on BBC 2, Radio 4
and at Universities both nationally and internationally. www.susanrichardsonwriter.co.uk Michaela Ridgway lives in Brighton. Her
magazine credits include Magma, Orbis, Other Poetry, The Frogmore
Papers, Tears in the Fence, Antiphon and The Interpreter’s House.
She hosts the monthly Pighog Plus! Poetry night in Brighton, UK (http://www.pighog.co.uk). Miles Salter lives in York, and enjoys being a writer, musician
and storyteller. His poetry collections include ‘The Border’ (Valley
Press, 2011) and ‘Animals’ (Valley Press, 2013). He is Visiting
Lecturer at Leeds Trinity University and Director of York Literature
Festival. He finds spiders difficult. Robert Schechter has published poems and translations in Highlights for Children, High Five, The Washington Post, The
Evansville Review, String Poet, Poetry East, The Alabama Literary
Review, Light Quarterly, and Lighten Up Online, among
other journals, and in various anthologies. Gordon Simms. Formally head of
Performing Arts at what is now Blackburn University, Gordon hoped
for a quiet life on retiring to rural France in 2002. However, in
2012 he organised the first Bilingual LitFest in the tiny village of
St Clémentin. In 2014 the festival was repeated gaining EU
recognition and funding. A third is planned for 2016 in tandem with
festivals in Italy, Spain and the UK. As well as writing poetry
Gordon thoroughly enjoys playwriting and is currently involved with
a newly founded theatre company for whom he is directing. His
collected poems, Uphill to the
Sea, won the Biscuit prize, 2012. [email protected] www.stclementinlitfest.com Jocelyn Simms is organiser of the
Segora International Writing Competitions launched in 2007.
Currently she is writing a sequence of poems tracing the development
and testing of the atomic bomb, hoping that looking back to the
momentous events of 1945 might inform current debate. She was
delighted to welcome Blake Morrison and Michèle Roberts as principal
guests at the bilingual LitFest in 2014 and as judges of the Segora
poetry and short story competitions of that year. [email protected] www.poetryproseandplays.com Wendy Sloan’s work has appeared or is
forthcoming in various journals including Big City Lit, Blue Unicorn, Light,
Measure, Mezzo Cammin, TheRaintown Review, Think Journal, and Umbrella Journal. Her
translations (Leopardi/Stampa) have been published or are forthcoming in The Able Muse, The Chimaera, and Measure.Sloan was a finalist in the Howard Nemerov Sonnet
Competition (2006) and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She co-hosts the Carmine Street Metrics reading series in New
York City. Beth Somerford‘s poetry ranges from
the intimate and personal, to the sweep of landscape poems. It
draws particularly on science and social history, a fascination with
place and a love of the mundane. Her poems have been published in
Magma, Equinox, Obsessed with Pipework, Orbis, Iota, The Cannon’s
Mouth and the French Literary Review.Beth
lives in Brighton with her composer husband and an ever shifting
number of children. As well as writing, she coaches, acts and
directs, runs workshops, pots and potters about. K.V.Skene’s work has appeared in Canadian, U.K., U.S., Irish,
Australian and Austrian magazines, most recently in Poetry
Cornwall, The Maynard (Canada), Contemporary Literary Review India, The Saving Bannister (Canada), The Stony
Thursday Book (Ireland) and Obsessed With Pipework. Her publications include Love in the (Irrational)
Imperfect, 2006, Hidden Brook Press (Canada) and You
Can Almost Hear Their Voices, 2010, Indigo Dreams Publications
(UK). She placed third in the Cardiff International Poetry
Competition 2014 and currently lives and writes from Toronto,
Canada. Richard Skinner’s poems have been published in HARK, The
Interpreter’s House and Magma and longlisted for the National Poetry
Competition. His full collection, ‘the light user scheme’, is
published by Smokestack. His new pamphlet, ‘Terrace’ (Smokestack),
is published in April 2015. Susan Skinner has had four collections of her poems published:
Monet’s Garden – Headland Press, The Minnow Catching Boys – Headland
Press, Island Sisters – Redlake Press, Out of Nowhere – Searle
Publishing. She has also published in poetry magazines, and has
published stories for children, and illustrated and compiled
three Christian books: Secret Journey – John Hunt Publishing; Graces
for Today – John Hunt Publishing; Symbols of the Soul – John Hunt
Publishing. Thomas R. Smith is the author of seven published books of poems,
most recently THE GLORY (2015, Red Dragonfly Press). He has
also edited several books, including AIRMAIL: THE LETTERS OF
ROBERT BLY AND TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER (Bloodaxe, 2013). He lives in
western Wisconsin and teaches poetry at the Loft Literary Center in
Minneapolis. His work has appeared in several publications in
the UK and Ireland. Anne Stewart runs the online showcase www.poetrypf.co.uk and is Administrator for Second Light, a network of women poets. Her
awards include the Bridport Prize (2008) and the Silver Wyvern
(Italy, 2014). Her first collection, The Janus Hour, was
published by Oversteps Books in 2010. Seán Street has published nine collections, the most recent being Cello (Rockingham Press, 2013) and Jazz Time (Lapwing Publications,
2014). Prose includes The Dymock Poets (Seren 1994/2014), The Poetry of Radio: The Colour of Sound (Routledge, 2013)
and The Memory of Sound: Preserving the Sonic Past (Routledge, 2014). He is Emeritus Professor at Bournemouth
University. Susan Taylor has six published poetry collections, the most
recent of which is A Small Wave for Your Form from Oversteps
Books in 2012. She coedits the South West poetry journal The
Broadsheet with her partner, Simon Williams. Eilidh Thomas lives in north east
Scotland with her husband and collie dog, Smudge. She writes poetry
and short stories, which have been published, selectively, in print
and online over the past few years. Recent work is published in
Sentinel Literary Quarterly and The Stare’s Nest. Mark Totterdell’s poems have appeared
in many magazines and have won competitions. His first collection,
‘This Patter of Traces’,was published in 2014 by Oversteps Books. Clare Whistler is a collaborative, site -specific artist, who makes
events using many art forms with all sorts of people. www.clarewhistler.co.uk Simon Williams has written poetry for 40 years, starting at
university. A Place Where Odd Animals Stand (Oversteps Books,
2012) is his fourth independently published collection and He/She (Itinerant Press, 2013) his fifth. Simon makes a living as a
technology journalist and lives in a cottage on the southern edge of
Dartmoor with his wife, poet Susan Taylor. He has two sons and, so
far, three grandchildren. Jackie Wills’ most recent collections of poetry are Woman’s Head as Jug (Arc,
2013) and Commandments (Arc, 2007). She was shortlisted for
the 1995 TS Eliot prize for her first collection. In 2004 she was
one of Mslexia magazine’s 10 new women poets of the decade. Wills
has earned her living as a writer since 1978. Margaret Wilmot. Born in California, Margaret Wilmot has lived in Sussex since 1978.
She is drawn by imaginative associations . . . memory, landscape,
ideas, paintings, words – seeing where the pencil leads. A pamphlet
has been published by Smiths Knoll entitled Sweet Coffee. Matthew Wilson, 31, has had over 150 appearances in such places as Horror Zine, Star*Line, Spellbound, Illumen, Apokrupha Press,
Hazardous Press, Gaslight Press, Sorcerers Signal and
many more. He is currently editing his first novel and can be
contacted on twitter @matthew94544267. Marc Woodward was born in the USA but lives in rural England where
he combines playing music, writing and occasional tv presenting. He
has been published in a number of magazines and has had work
included in anthologies from Ravenshead Press, Forward Press and
others. He has been featured on the websites of the Poetry Society
and The Guardian. More of his work can be seen on his blog http://marcwoodwardpoetry.blogspot.co.uk Shirley Wright is a Bristol-based novelist and widely published
poet. Her poetry collection “The Last Green Field”, published by
Indigo Dreams, came out in September 2013. Jacquie Wyatt. After a lucky escape from a big brand marketing career Jacquie Wyatt
is a poet. Too often distracted by flash fiction, stories and five
novels to date her razor sharp brain deduced that putting everything
in a very deep drawer wasn’t helping. A frequent Write Invite winner
and runner-up she was a Flash flood author in 2012. She is a founder
member of Roundel – the Tonbridge Poetry stanza. Dr. Aprilia Zank is a
lecturer for Creative Writing and Translation in the Department of
Languages and Communication at the Ludwig Maximilian University of
Munich, Germany. She is also a poet, a translator and the editor of
the English–German anthology poetry tREnD Eine englisch-deutsche
Anthologie zeitgenössischer Lyrik, LIT Verlag, Berlin, 2010, and
the anthology POETS IN PERSON at the Glassblower (Indigo
Dream Publishing, April, 2014). Her poetry collection, TERMINUS ARCADIA, was 2nd Place Winner at the Twowolvz Press Poetry Chapbook Contest 2013. She
is also a passionate photographer. Simon Zonenblick. A poet living in the Ryburn Valley, Yorkshire
Simon works mainly in libraries and dabbles in gardening. Two
collections of his poetry have been published: Little Creatures -poems of Insects, Small Mammals and Micro-organisms (Caterpillar
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