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Piers Hugill, Three Texts

Piers Hugill is a founder member of the hybrid media performance group London Under Construction and editor of the journal of experimental translation reception. He is also a member of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC) at Birkbeck College and co-edits two web journals, Pores: An Avant-Gardist Journal of Poetics Research and Readings: Response & Reactions to Poetries. Piers has previously published work in AND, cul-de-qui, Keystone, a number of chapbooks and Basement Readings (CD).

Tina Hyett, Seven Songs from The Autumn Journals

Tina Hyett was born and raised in Harlow. She now lives in inner North London. Parndon Press published The Winter Journal in 1984.

Aishwarya Iyer, Four Poems

Aishwarya Iyer was born in 1983, and has just graduated in English Literature from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She has been published online on Sulekha.com, and The Quarterly Literary Supplement of Singapore and in the July issue of Eclectica magazine, but is still sitting lymphatic waiting to be published in print.

Martin Jack, Poems

Martin Jack has been published by Sentinel Poetry, Breakfast All Day, Poetry Monthly, by the Knoxville Guild of Writers in their Anthology of Journeys, and by Waterloo Press in Eratica as well as in an introductory sampler of his work in 2004: Waterloo Samplers No. 5.

Sarah Jacobs

Sarah Jacobs is a sculptor. Sarah Jacobs' work is held in collections in Britain and internationally. She also runs Colebrooke Publications

Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: We Report Here

The Report is accompanied by the book, Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: Index to the Report. Both Report and Index are published by information as material. Both works deal with the debates and discourses constellating around the Human Genome Project.

The Zigzag Path

The Zigzag Paths is one of a series of books and artworks based on Joseph Conrad’s novel, Nostromo.

"Ditty", from Song of the Data Stream

Song of the Data Stream is an on-going project.

John James, At Château-Chinon

John James was born in 1939 in Cardiff. He attended the University of Bristol, and later postgraduate studies at the University of Keele. In 1963, he was a founder of The Resuscitator and he has had a sequence of publications from the mid 1960s onwards, which you will find in the exhaustive Collected Poems (Salt, 2002). He has appeared in a range of anthologies, from Michael Horovitz's Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain (Penguin, 1969) via Andrew Crozier & Tim Longville's A Various Art (Carcanet, 1987) to Keith Tuma's Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (OUP, NY, 2001). He has worked for many years at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. He is a very major British poet. There are poems and readings on Archive of the Now.

Nicholas Johnson, Cleave

Title poem of a new book in working-form, Cleave, set in North & West Devon, published in 2002 by etruscan books. Nicholas ran 6 towns poetry festival in Stoke-on-Trent from 1992-1997, still organises readings in London and Devon, and is responsible for etruscan books, which include the recent anthology Foil (see below!), and work by both contemporary poets and older (including Seán Rafferty and Carl Rakosi), with Selected Poems of Wendy Mulford just published. His own books include Haul Song (Mammon Press, 1997), Land: Selected Poems 1983-1998 (Mammon Press, 1999) and Show (etruscan, 2000).

Douglas Jones, Some Poems

Douglas Jones is 35 years old and works as a charge nurse at the London Hospital. His poetry comes out of the Writers Forum workshop, and Writers Forum published bluegreen-grey in 2002. He is also a member of the London Under Construction group.

Pete Jones, Feeding Hungry Ghosts

Pete Jones is an aspiring author from Hagley in the West Midlands, and currently an A-level student. He is particularly interested in flash fiction, but occasionally attempts poetry.

Andrew Jordan, Vair of Four Tinctures

Andrew Jordan lives in Southampton. He edits 10th Muse magazine (some issues available online, archived by the Poetry Library), and produces the Listening Voice newletter of the Equi-Phallic Alliance. He has had poems published in Angel Exhaust, Oasis, PN Review, Shearsman, Stand, and Tabla.

From November 2000 to May 2001: writer-in-residence at HMP Haslar, then a Home Office Holding Centre, now a Removal Centre. Most of the detainees are refugees, including survivors of torture. The January 2005 issue of Poetry Review includes an article about the residency called Inside the Outside, available online.

Meena Kandasamy, Two Poems

Meena Kandasamy is a twenty-one year old writer, poet and translator based in Chennai. She was awarded the first prize in the national level 'Indian Horizons Poetry Contest' conducted in celebration of the International Women's Day by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Government of India for her poem Mascara. Her poem My Lover Speaks of Rape recently won the first prize in Disha 2004 , an all-India poetry contest which was organized by the Chennai-based International Organization for the Prevention of Crime and Victim Care. Her poetry has been published in the South African magazine Sweet, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore and on Sulekha.com.

WB Keckler, Two Poems

WB Keckler's most recent book is Sanskrit of the Body, which won in the USA National Poetry Series (2002) and is just out through Penguin (USA). Other books include Ants Dissolve in Moonlight (Fugue State Press, 1995) and Recombinant Image Day (Broken Boulder Press, 1998). He also has poems recently posted on, among other sites, The DMQ Review, Unlikely Stories, The Alterran Poetry Assemblage.

Tim Keane, three poems

Tim Keane’s book Alphabets of Elsewhere is forthcoming from Cinnamon Press this fall. He is finishing a second poetry collection called A Future Grotto for a Kneeling God. His poems have appeared widely in online and print venues in the US, Canada, UK, and Asia, eg online in Stride Magazine, Zafusy, Mudlark, Starfish, Xcp & Quarterly Literary Review Singapore; and in Aesthetica, Chimera, and widely in US and abroad.. Excerpts from his novel That Strange Flower the Sun have been published in the US and in UK, and a new extract is online in milk magazine’s 8th issue. He has a personal website

Amy King, Poems

Amy King's work is forthcoming in Femme Magazine, Unarmed: Adventurous Poetry Journal and Word For/Word. Other details may be found at www.amyking.org. Antidotes for an Alibi (Blazevox Books) is her recent collection.

Magda Knight, Three Poems

Magda Knight has occasionally worked as a reviewer, primarily writes 'innerspace' science-fiction and is in the process of publishing the small-press science fiction magazine ColdFusion. She once did a stint as a 'court poet', writing paeans to local people for the small sum of one pound. (For that kind of money, she was willing to flatter people shamelessly. As a result, she is possibly one of the richest poets in Britain.) Magda Knight has been published in the British comic, 2000AD. Email: minky6@hotmail.com. Webjournal: http://likewise.journalspace.com.

Richard Kostelanetz, Inserts-1

Richard Kostelanetz is a major American writer, artist, critic, and editor of the avant-garde who is productive in and across many fields. Individual entries on him appear in Contemporary Poets, Contemporary Novelists, Postmodern Fiction, Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers, the Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature, Webster’s Dictionary of American Authors, The HarperCollins Reader’s Encyclopedia of American Literature, NNDB.com, and the Encyclopedia Britannica, among other distinguished directories. Otherwise, he survives in New York, where he was born, unemployed and thus overworked. Website: www.Richardkostelanetz.com; art gallery: on minusspace.com.

Josef Lesser, Three Poems

Josef Lesser commenced writing after retiring from full-time employment. His poetry has been published in several countries in print, anthology and magazine, as well as online journals, eg Niederngasse, blackmailpress: nzpoetsonline.com, Stride Magazine, and writeThis.com. He lives with his wife in Coffs Harbour on the mid-north coast of New South Wales Australia. Email.

Anthony Liccione, three poems

Anthony Liccione lives in Texas with his wife and two children. He has four collections of poetry: Heaven's Shadow (Foothills Publishing), Parched and Colorless (The Moon Publishing), Back Words and Forward (Publish America) and Please Pass Me, the Blood & Butter (Lulu Press). His poetry has appeared in Mastodon Dentist, Straight From The Fridge, Literary Tonic, Red Fez, The Indite Circle and Locust Magazine.

Duane Locke, five poems (email to Damniso Lopez . . .)

Duane Locke, Doctor of Philosophy, English Renaissance literature, Professor Emeritus of the Humanities, was Poet in Residence at the University of Tampa for over 20 years. He is the author of 14 print books of poetry, and several e-books, including From a Tiny Room. Other online publications include in Outsider Ink, Dead Drunk Dublin, The Hold, & Identity Theory. He is also a painter, having many exhibitions, such as at the city art museum in Gainesville, Florida. A recent book, Extraordinary Interpretations by Gary Monroe (University of Florida Press), has a discussion of his paintings. Also, a photographer, Duane Locke now has over 278 photos in e-zines. He does close-ups of trash tossed away in alleys and on sidewalks. Now, he has completed a series called "mystic vegetation" and "The Goddess Inanna". He is currently doing what he calls Surphotography, and photographing nature, birds, insects, etc. For more information on Duane Locke, click on Duane Locke on Google: there are over a half-million entries under his name.

Tom Lowenstein, Inter-Rogation

Inter-Rogation comes from a long narrative poem about Tikigaq, Alaska, where Tom Lowenstein worked between 1973 and 1989. He has published two main books as an ethnographer: The Things that were Said of Them: Shaman Stories and Oral Histories from Tikigaq, Alaska (University of California Press, 1992) and Ancient Land:Sacred Whale, the Inuit Hunt and its Rituals (Harvill Press, 1999), plus Ancestors and Species: New & Selected Ethnographic Poetry (Shearsman, 2005), and in addition, among others, The Vision of the Buddha: Buddhism: the Path to Spiritual Enlightenment (Duncan Baird, 2002). Volumes of poetry include Booster: A Game of Divination (Many Press, 1976), The Death of Mrs Owl (Anvil Press, 1977), Tempesta's X-Ray (Many Press, 1980), Filibustering in Samsara (Many Press, 1987).

Other parts of the narrative poem have appeared in: London Review of Books, Shearsman, Skanky Possum (Austin, Texas) and First Intensity (Lawrence, Kansas). Tom Lowenstein is currently working on a prose history of 19th century contact between Inuit and white people in Tikigaq.

Rupert Loydell, Four Poems

Rupert Loydell is the Managing Editor of Stride Books, Editor of Stride magazine and a regular contributor of articles and reviews to Tangents magazine. He lives in Falmouth, Cornwall with his wife and two daughters and is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. Recent publications include A Conference of Voices (Shearsman, 2004), The Museum of Light (Arc, 2003) and Endlessly Divisible (Driftwood, 2003); The Smallest Deaths (Bluechrome, 2005) is the most recent. Also on Great Works are Four Poems. Rupert Loydell runs a blog as editor of Stride.

Rupert Loydell & Robert Sheppard, from Risk Assessment

Robert Sheppard teaches creative writing at Edge Hill College. Recent books include The Lores (Reality Street Editions, 2003), Empty Diaries (Stride, 1998) and Tin Pan Arcadia(Salt, 2004) — all parts of his Twentieth Centry Blues project. He has also published Far Language: Poetics and Linguistically Innovative Poetry 1978-1997 (Stride, 1999), a book of critical writings and reviews; Hymns to the God My Typewriter Believes In is just out from Stride. He is featured on the BEPC Website. Reading The Reader of Bernhard Schlink is also on Great Works

Other poems from Risk Assessment have been placed in Free Verse, David Jones Journal, Popularity Contest, and Exultations & Difficulties.

Alexis Lykiard, New Poems

Immediately forthcoming is Skeleton Keys (Redbeck), a poetry collection on Greek themes (WW2, occupation, civil war, becoming a refugee, anglicisation, the Colonels, family, etc), and later this year a translation of Antonin Artaud, Heliogabalus, or The Anarchist Crowned (Creation Books), and Jean Rhys Afterwords (Short Books), a sequel to the marvellous and magic Jean Rhys Revisited (Stride 2000). For more of Alexis's poetry, try Selected Poems 1956-1996 (University of Salzburg, 1996).

Chris McCabe, progress poems

Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977 and now works in London. Poems in several magazines including Poetry Salzburg Review (No 4) and forthcoming issues of Fire. Along with Progress Poems – an ongoing sequence – he is looking for a publisher for a first collection titled the other tonight. He can be contacted at: chrismccabe17@hotmail.com. Salt published a large collection, The Hutton Inquiry in 2005.

Diana Magallón, Seven Poems

Diana Magallón is an Italian visual artist and a poet, who lives and work in Guadalajara City, Mexico. Her work has appeared in Muse Apprentice Guild, Eratio, Tin Lustre Mobile, Moria, The Blackboard Project, Hutt, and in Italian in Niederngasse. Graphic and other artwork of hers is viewable online at her www.geocities.com site.

Prasenjit Maiti, Poems

A selection from a longer run of poems. Dr Maiti is Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Burdwan University, India.

Richard Makin, REMOIRE

Richard Makin is a London-born, now St Leonards-based, writer of fiction & a visual artist. Sections of his novel Forword include f :w :d (Equipage, 1995), Too Mouth For Word (Historical Research Ltd, 1996) & Universlipre (Equipage, 1996); of Ravine, From Ravine (Words & Pictures, 1997) & Readymades (Obelisk, 1998). He has also had work included in ed Nicholas Johnson, Foil: defining poetry 1985-2000 (etruscan books, 2000). Textual installations by him have been made at Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, & at the University of Greenwich. REMOIRE is now published online by Zoilus Press. He can be contacted at terraincognita0@hotmail.com. Also on this site is the serial publication of the prose sequence St Leonards.

Under Luke Shades

"Makin, back in December 1992, lived in the shadow of the obelisk of St Luke's Old Atreet. Home territory. Our conjunction was even stranger than I had supposed: we would both be travelling, twin arms of a compass, south-east across London, to meet in a transgressed seminar room." (Iain Sinclair, Lights out For the Territory.)

Work in Progress

A prose sequence, with photographs by Richard.

Stephen Mead, Three poems, two paintings

Stephen Mead is an artist and writer living in northeastern New York. Personal details and samples of work can be found at 123soho.com, and both writing and art at Scars Publications. He has an ebook available, We Are More Than Our Wounds

David Menzies, Bank Holiday

A pamphlet & a poemcard by David Menzies are available from Kater Murr's Press: The Narcosis of Water & Cadiz, 1992.

Sarah Millward, five poems

Sarah Millward currently lives and works in the Greater Manchester area. She is just about to complete her Degree in English Literature and Creative Writing at Salford University. She is contactable on: itssarahlou@hotmail.com.

Guido Monte, Seven Poems

Guido Monte was born in 1962. He teaches Italian and Latin literatures at the Liceo "A. Einstein" of Palermo. In his most recent works he employs linguistic blending in the search for new and deeper relations between different cultures. Work is on a range of sites on the Web including Words Without Borders, Segue, Litterae and on happano.org (do a search within the site using his name to bring up the various pages, unless you read Japanese). Try also his website, avoiding the initial pop-up.

Stephen Mooney, from the District Line Project

Stephen Mooney was born 1971 in Zambia, lived in Ireland until 1994, and in London since then pursuing a PhD in contemporary poetics at Birkbeck College. Part of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC) there; part of the performative poetry grouping London Under Construction (LUC), and one of those behind 'Veer Books'; co-edits the web journal Readings; and with poems in various small places and e-places (eg on nth position.

The Central & District Line Projects relate to two long poems he is writing as a coupling concerned with the decline of cottaging (cruising toilets for sex in essence). This relation to the 'present' day culture and recording/historicising – message, social function, graffiti, obsolescence, legislation, law, expedience – is related to two two-day journeys made into the depths of East London following the geographic mapping of those tube lines, more focussed on lines of control (and that related to the 'public' and 'facility' in this context) than a pyscho-geographical remapping. These journeys were recorded in various ways that process-lead the poems' writing, which include the tube map, the A-Z, on-line mapping services, signposting, experience, sites pertaining to 'information', photograph, graffiti, movement, etc. Significant to this 'recording', and process, is the presence of the equivalent of a walkman which continually instates and refigures the other forms of visual, aural, kinetic, mythologising and associative rhythmic influences related to those journeys and abstracted journeys. The form of the first relates to the spatial (as temporal in this sense) rhythmic as related to the District line journey – this will in term, when written, establish the principles of the temporal and rhythmic form of the Central line project as the first journey relates to the second. etc.

Aside from concerns about rhythm and contemporaneity in the physical structures of the poems (principally relating to modern dance music), a key factor in these poems is 'control' – surveillance, power and the increasingly totalitarian nature of our society: these as related to the removal or decline in cottaging (and the inevitable link of this to economics) – the use of language as social and political 'control' constructs, relating this specifically through the use of the language of control in sex, gay sexuality and identity.

A S Morgan, Ink

A.S. Morgan holds a BA in Classics from Bard College. Her work has been published in Syntax, Rumble, and Reflection's Edge. Her website is: atrophiedannie.blogspot.com.

Alan Morrison, Poems

First published in Don’t Think of Tigers (The Do Not Press, 2001). His play for voices, Picaresque (‘calls to mind Dylan Thomas’ — Samuel French Ltd.), has been performed at Shepherd’s Bush Library, on Resonance fm, and at The Poetry Cafe. Chapbooks are Giving Light (Waterloo Press, 2004), Clocking-in for the Witching Hour and Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever (both Sixties Press, 2004). A volume, The Mansion Gardens, is forthcoming from Paula Brown Publishing. Alan also edits Poetry Express, the magazine of Survivors' Poetry. For more information visit www.alandmorrison.blogspot.com.

Wendy Mszyca, WREATH-BUILDER/BINDER

Wendy Mszyca is Camberwell-based, originally from a Midlands town, with a lens-based Art background rather than purely writing/textual work. First publication is a poster, of sand trays & slates (A Lost School in Hoxton), for the Richard Makin curated 51:31 N 00:05W project at bookartbookshop.

Christopher Mulrooney, Five Poems

Christopher Mulrooney has had poems and translations in Fire, Poetry and Audience, The Burning Bush, Perihelion, Euphony, Sojourn, The Pacific Review, Cordite, Tiger, Quarterly Literary Review of Singapore, Poetry Salzburg Review, Litspeak, Frank, and chapbooks include Come on with the rain (Phony Lid Pubs), singing for pennies on the streets (Budget Press), apostrophe (Los). He has had a lot of material on the web, as poems, translations and more. Websites devoted to his work include: dream-holes in the net, Ut, and 'Alliwell That Ends Well (notes on film – including a spirited defence of a Michael Winner film)

Paul Murphy, Seven Poems

Born in Belfast, 1965. He studied at the University of Warwick, gaining a BA in Film and Literature. From there he went to Queen's University Belfast to study for an MA on T.S.Eliot and the French philosopher Jacques Lacan. He has just finished a stint as writer-in-residence at the Albert-Ludwig Universitat, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Wurtemburg, Germany.

His poetry, literary criticism, book reviews and travel writings have been published in English, Irish and American journals. He has published The New Life (Lapwing) and In The Luxembourg Gardens (Salzburg University), and has read from his work in Paris, Cambridge, Galway and Belfast. He is at the moment writing an oral history of the Black Forest, and working on many reviews of contemporary authors. He also writes philosophy and enjoys working on the interface between poetry and philosophy. There is a long essay on the poems in T.S.Eliot's "Inventions of the March Hare" MS on A Chide's Alphabet.

Sheila E Murphy, Five Rehearsals

Portions of a longer single work. Sheila E. Murphy recently performed her poetry for Lit City in New Orleans. Last year, she presented a series of readings and workshops at the Arvon Foundation at Totleigh-Barton, Devon, in the UK, in addition to performing at the third annual Boston Poetry Conference. In 1999, she was a featured performer at the annual Brisbane Writers Festival in Queensland, Australia. Murphy has authored numerous books of poetry, most recently The Stuttering of Wings (Stride Press, UK, 2002), and The Indelible Occasion (Potes & Poets Press, 2000). Books scheduled for publication include Recent Flute Silences from SUN/gemini Press and Green Tea with Ginger (Potes & Poets Press). She and Beverly Carver co-founded the Scottsdale Center for the Arts Poetry Series and served as coordinators for 12 years. The series continues under the direction of Carolyn Robbins, Curator of Education, at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts. In 1996, Murphy's Letters to Unfinished J. won the New American Poetry Series Open Competition. The book is scheduled to appear from Sun & Moon Press. Her home is in Phoenix, Arizona.

Andrew Nightingale, Architectonics

Four Poems

Andrew Nightingale now lives in Italy. You can contact him at nightand@yahoo.co.uk. More of his work can be seen on the Stride Magazine website and widely elsewhere. His own website provides full links to other online work. He also runs the online and print magazine liminal pleasures..

Ashok Niyogi, RUSSIAN PENCIL SKETCHES

Ashok Niyogi was born in 1955 and graduated with Honors in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata. He has been in international trade and has traveled the world over including a 10-year stint as an expatriate in Yeltsin’s Russia. He now travels and lives as a professional poet. Ashok has been and will be published in innumerable magazines (print and online) in the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Europe. He has two books of poetry published by A-4, India, CROSSROADS and REFLECTIONS IN THE DARK, and one 225 page paperback of poems, TENTATIVELY from iUniverse, USA, 2005, also viewable online. More work is available online from My Favorite Bullet, The HyperTexts and www.laurahird.com.

William Orr, Two Poems

Peter Philpott, A Year and a Day in the Dark Forest

This sequence of poems was written, mainly, between New Years Day, 1981, and New Years Day, 1982, the bulk of it in Bishops Stortford. It records some domestic events, including a birth and a holiday, as well as seasonal changes and events, and also a range of responses to the times. It is a very long and complex text. You are invited to read it following a number of guided routes identified by waymarks. The poem was written with this complexity integral to it – unpublishable on paper.

For further information and even pictures, see the page about Peter Philpott.

Ashen

In the Present Historic Tense

A Serial Poem of the West. The author was born in Martock, Somerset in 1949, and moved in 1963 to Minehead in Somerset, going to University in 1967, and caught up with job, house and marriage elsewhere by 1973. He does, though, often return to the West Country. This poem was written partly in Bishops Stortford, and partly in and around Minehead and Dartington, 1992-1993. It has now been published in Textual Possessions: Three Sequences, published by Shearsman Press.

Towards the End

This sequence of poems takes off from a poem in the sequence In the Present Historic Tense, written previous to the events involved in these poems, and leads into the sequence IL.

IL

Il was written in Peter Philpott's 49th year. It includes references to some private events: his father's dementia and death. This sequence of poems is written as a matrix of poems, 7 x 7. For most poems, except those of the final row and column, there are two choices to take as the next in the sequence. Navigate using the arrows, indicating direction in the matrix, and the asterisk, taking you to the Texts page. There will be thirteen poems in each reading of the sequence.

The Fragments

of the work of an anonymous classical lyric poet. It is a very free translation of some very egregious & obscure remnants of texts, that present many problems for both reader & scholar. Also included are some comments apparently made by disciples, and recorded in the same scholiasts' notations. Note that as further research allows more of this material to be translated, it will be included here.

Frances Presley, Learning Letters

Frances Presley was born in Derbyshire, and now lives in London where she is a free-lance author and also works part-time at the Poetry Library. Paravane: new and selected poems, 1996-2003 was published by Salt in 2004: the title sequence is a response to 9/11/2001. Myne: new and selected poems and prose, 1976-2006, was published last year by Shearsman. It includes two new Somerset sequences, of which the most recent is ‘Stone settings’, which takes as its framework the Neolithic stone sites on Exmoor, and is part of a collaboration with the poet Tilla Brading. She has written various reviews and essays, and she runs the Other Press, which has recently published a book of experimental prose by Mary Michaels.

Niall Quinn, Two Poems

Niall Quinn was co-author, with Nic Laight & Nick Macias, of the highly praised However introduced to the Soles (UNKN, 1995). He has had work in Nicholas Johnson's anthology Foil: defining poetry 1985-2000 (etruscan books, 2000), and in Angel Exhaust 15: Bizarre Crimes of the Future and Angel Exhaust 18: Hex Inhaustion Dux. He is still working on the memory text/lustration still (perennial fascination with the 'process' of identity formation, transfomation).

Peter Riley, CODA

CODA is the third part of a three-part book of poetry. The first two parts, called SETTS, can be viewed on the following websites:

Sett One on Masthead

Sett Two on Jacket

Sett Two is situated in Miramures, Northern Transylvania, and CODA follows part of the route back from there, a long journey across Europe in an old Renault Espace indulging in serial breakdowns, with the central European winter hard on our tail. But it includes poems referring to places far from this route and at other times.

Peter Riley was born 1940 near Manchester and now lives in Cambridge. He is the author of some twenty books and pamphlets of poetry since 1968. Passing Measures, a selection of poems 1966-1996, appeared from Carcanet in 2000. A long poem, Alstonefield, is due from the same publisher in December 2003, and The Dance at Mociu, a book of Transylvanian prose sketches, was recently published by Shearsman. The Gig (Toronto) issue 4/5 1999-2000, was devoted to discussion of his poetry, with a detailed bibliography. He has a page on the BEPC website.

Peter Robinson, Six Poems

Peter Robinson was born in Salford, Lancashire, in 1953. In the 70s and 80s he co-edited two magazines and helped organize several poetry festivals. His books of poetry are Overdrawn Account (Many Press, 1980), This Other Life (1988), Entertaining Fates (1992), Lost and Found (1997), About Time Too (2001) and Selected Poems (2003) (all from Carcanet Press). Other recent books are The Great Friend and Other Translated Poems (Worple Press, 2002) and Poetry, Poets, Readers: Making Things Happen (Oxford University Press, 2002). For more information, see Peter Robinson's own very informative, full and clear website.

Will Rowe, The Year Book

Will Rowe has published eight books on twentieth-century Latin American literature and culture, most recently History and the Inner Life: Poets of Contemporary Latin America (OUP, 2000), and a book of poems Working the Signs (Spanner, 1992). He is Professor of Poetics at Birkbeck College, and his inaugual lecture "'Language . . . poisoned to a wreckage': on contemporary poetics in Britain and Latin America" was published as the first issue of The Radiator: a journal of contemporary poetics (well worth reading: contact The Radiator's editor Scott Thurston). Will Rowe is founder of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre at Birkbeck, and editor of PORES.

David Rushmer, from Blanchot's Ghost

David Rushmer lives in Cambridge. Editor of pen:umbra magazine (1988-1991). His works have appeared in a number of magazines; Angel Exhaust, Intimacy, Oasis and 10th Muse. Previous pamphlets include Absence (with David Barton)(David Barton, 1990), Homage To Throbbing Gristle (Writers' Forum, 1993), Love Letters To The Dead (1993). His most recent publication is The Family of Ghosts (2005) from Arehouse, Cambridge.

Iftekhar Sayeed, PRESENT AT PLASSEY

Iftekhar Sayeed teaches English and economics. He was born and lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has contributed to AXIS OF LOGIC, ENTER TEXT, POSTCOLONIAL TEXT, LEFT CURVE, MOBIUS, ERBACCE, THE JOURNAL, and other publications. He is also a freelance journalist. He and his wife love to tour Bangladesh. He has a number of other essays available online, eg Reflections on Democracy and Violence in Unlikely 2.0, and Freedom and Freedom on the Brunel University website.

Ian Seed, Poems

Ian Seed, Six Prose Poems

Ian Seed writes poetry and short fiction. He runs Shadow Train website. Widely published in magazines and anthologies, see his homepage on Shadowtrain for full listing. His latest collections are The Stranger (2000) and Rescue (2002) from Moss & Flint Books. After twenty years in Italy, France and Poland, working as a teacher, translator and project manager, he returned to England in 2003 to do an MA in Creative Writing at Lancaster University. He is currently a creative writing and languages tutor.

John Seed, Poems

John Seed's most recent books are New & Collected Poems and Pictures from Mayhew: London 1850, both published by Shearsman (2005). He has two other poems on this site. See also his listing on BEPC: British Electronic Poetry Centre.

Gavin Selerie, Poems from Le Fanu's Ghost

Gavin Selerie was born in London in 1949. He lives in Cricklewood, and was formerly a lecturer at Birkbeck College. His books include Aximuth (Binnacle Press, 1984), Roxy (West House Books, 1996) and, with Alan Halsey, Days of '49 (West House Books, 1999). Le Fanu's Ghost, a work in progress, deals with the Le Fanu, Sheridan and Blackwod families, all intertwined by marriage and literature. It treads the interface between horror and laughter. He has a page on the BEPC website

Aidan Semmens, Three Poems

Aidan Semmens succeeded Peter Robinson as chairman of the Cambridge Poetry Society, co-edited three issues of Perfect Bound with him in 1977-78, and won the 1978 Chancellor'sMedal for an English Poem (which can be found on Jacket as part of a sample of writing from Perfect Bound). Aidan Semmens was published in a number of magazines in the 70s and 80s, including Figs, Pages, Folded Sheets, Two-Fold and Palantir, had small books out from Lobby in 1978 and Pig Press in 1987, both long out of print, and has only just returned to poetry after a 15-year silence. There some poems on the Stride Magazine website.He has been a journalist since 1978 and has a website on medieval churches.

Robert Sheppard

Robert Sheppard is Professor of creative writing at Edge Hill College. Recent books include Hymns to the God in which my Typewriter Believes, (Stride, 2006), Complete Twentieth Century Blues, (Salt Publishing, 2007), The Lores (Reality Street Editions, 2003), The End of the Twentieth Century (Ship of Fools, 2002), Empty Diaries (Stride, 1998) and Tin Pan Arcadia (Salt, 2004) — all parts of his Twentieth Century Blues project. He has also published Far Language: Poetics and Linguistically Innovative Poetry 1978-1997 (Stride, 1999), a book of critical writings and reviews. He is featured on the BEPC Website, and he runs a rewarding (but at present resting) blogzine, Pages. There are poems and readings on Archive of the Now. His essay The Necessity of Poetics is available on Pores Issue 1.

Also on this site is some of a collaboration with Rupert Loydell, Risk Assessment.

Sudley House

Sudley House was realised as a guided tour/performance at Sudley House, in four shows on 6 and 12 November 2004, with Scott Thurston as second voice and presence. There are more details, photos & links in the Notes to the piece.

Reading The Reader of Bernhard Schlink

Reading the Reader is one of a number of pieces by Robert Sheppard that are texts and commentaries on other works: in this case, Bernhard Schlink's novel The Reader (Phoenix, 1998).

Tom Sheehan, three poems

Tom Sheehan’s Epic Cures, short stories from Press 53, won a 2006 IPPY Award. A Collection of Friends, from Pocol Press, was nominated for Albrend Memoir Award. This Rare Earth & Other Flights, poems, was issued by Lit Pot Press in 2003. He has nine Pushcart and two Million Writer nominations, a Silver Rose Award from American Renaissance for the Twenty-first Century (ART). Recent work has been accepted in Australia, New Zealand, France, Turkey, China, Ireland, Scotland, England, as well as in the U.S. He served in 31st Infantry Regiment, Korea, 1951, and retired in 1990. He meets again soon for a lunch/gab session with pals, the ROMEOs, Retired Old Men Eating Out (91, 79, 78, 77). He can hardly wait. His pals will each have one martini, he’ll have three beers, and the waitress will shine on them.

Nitin Shroff, Poems

Nitin is a 38 year old Indian Seychellois visual artist and poet living in southern France (previously South London). There is a small collection of his work on Szirine Magazine.

Jeffrey Side,Poems

Jeffrey Side has had poetry published in various magazines such as Poetry Salzburg Review, and on poetry web sites such as Poethia, nth position, eratio, Ancient Heart, BlazeVOX, P.F.S. Post, Hutt, ken*again, and CybpherAnthology. He has reviewed poetry for New Hope International, Stride, Acumen, and Shearsman. From 1996 to 2000 he was the assistant editor of The Argotist magazine, and now edits The Argotist Online, and also posts a blog.

Hannah Silva, five poems

Hannah Silva is a choreographer and writer, as well as a performance poet, known as 'Silva Danca'. She choreographs words and movement alongside each other, approaching spoken text from a musical perspective. Her writing often comes from sources such as magazines, TV and overheard conversations and is then cut up, reversed, distorted, integrated with other texts, and performed alongside soundtracks. She has performed her work in Japan, Germany, Holland and the U.K. Hannah Silva has a myspace presence.

Ron Singer, two poems

Ron Singer trawls the genres: poetry, fiction, satire, journalism, and drama (including librettos). His Essay-Review, “O Ti Lo Wa Ju (‘You Have Gone Past All’), The Caine Prize for African Writing,” is in the Summer 2007 issue of The Georgia Review. In November 2006, his chapbook A Voice for My Grandmother was published by Ten Penny Players, Inc. Three poems are slated for the 2008 anthology Poetic Voices Without Borders-2 (PVWB 2, Gival Press). Singer lives in New York City, where he has taught for thirty years at Friends Seminary, a K-12 Quaker school. His wife teaches, too, and she is a visual artist. Their daughter is a food writer. He has his own website, www.ronsinger.net/.

Elias Siquieros, three poems

Elias Siquieros was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. He has alternated his residencies between New York City and Austin, Texas for the last several years. He has published a collection of poems, Sap of the Moon-Planet, in 1996, and 23 Poems as a chapbook in 2002. Recent work has appeared in Moria, No Exit, Milk, Upland Trout, Blood Orange Review, Memorious and Stirring.

Kenji Siratori

Kenji Siratori is a Japanese cyberpunk writer who is currently bombarding the internet with wave upon wave of highly experimental, uncompromising, progressive, intense prose. Publications include Acidhuman Project (Creation Books, 2005), Blood Electric (Creation Books, 2002) (acclaimed by David Bowie), Headcode (iUniverse, 2004). His is a writing style that not only breaks with tradition, it severs all cords, and can only really be compared to the kind of experimental writing techniques employed by the Surrealists, William Burroughs and Antonin Artaud. Embracing the image mayhem of the digital age, his relentless prose is nonsensical and extreme, avant-garde and confused, with precedence given to twisted imagery, pace and experimentation over linear narrative and character development. With unparalleled stylistic terrorism, he unleashes his literary attack. An unprovoked assault on the senses. You may wish to visit kenji siratori [Kill All Machines] or his blog. Other internet publications of texts by Kenji Siratori include on Exquisite Corpse, New World Disorder, and artwork on Inter-zone.org. There is an interview on Bookmunch.

Pete Smith, Second Horace

Horace's Second Book of Odes strained through the Objectivist sieve. Other recent & forthcoming work includes cross of green hollow: elegies, allegiances, thefts, Wild Honey Press (2002), Harm's Length (Poetical Histories, 2000), and CLIV, a massacre of Shakespeare's sonnets forthcoming on-line on The Alterran Poetry Assemblage (and then in print from Wild Honey).

Pete Smith, Evacuation Procedures

Other recent & forthcoming poetry includes cross of green hollow: elegies, allegiances, thefts, Wild Honey Press (2002), Harm's Length (Poetical Histories, 2000), and CLIV, a massacre of Shakespeare's sonnets forthcoming on-line on The Alterran Poetry Assemblage, and poems in The Gig 12. Current works explore margins of Canadian culture. Increasingly involved with a local group in Kamloops (from Salish "Kum Kloups" – "the meeting of the waters"), British Columbia, and shedding skins of his Englishness (an evacuation procedure). Listen also to Viva Voce: Poetry and literature with Pete – Wednesdays, 1 pm Pacific Standard Time, Pete Smith broadcasting on 92.5 FM Online, The home on the web of the Kamloops Campus/Community Radio station, CFBX 92.5 FM. (The X).

Simon Smith, Household Gods

A sequence of epigrams, both classicising & modernist, from the author of Fifteen Exits (Waterloo Press, 2001), and most recently Reverdy Road. This is Issue 4 of Painted, spoken, free, but send an A5 stamped addressed envelope (please, no IRCs) to 8 Richmond Rd, Staines, Mddx, TW18 2AB. This work is now published in a big collection from Salt as Reverdy Road. See also Simon's listing on BEPC: British Electronic Poetry Centre.

Nicolas Spicer, four poems

Nicolas Spicer Was born in Kent, & has studied at the Universities of York & Newcastle. He currently works as a bookseller in Ludlow, Shropshire. He has published in a Snakeskin, Dreamcatcher, Fire & most recently Stride magazine, & the anthology Truths & Disguises (Bluechrome, 2005).

Robert Stanton, Poems

Rob Stanton was born in Bishop Auckland in 1977. He lives, at the moment, in Pickering, North Yorkshire. He posts a daily-ish poem sequence, Copy, which is the sequel to Issue. Douglas Messerli picked the poem Knots, to appear in the out-at-any-minute anthology PIP Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative Poetry in English.

Marc Stein, year two in london, january 2005

Geoff Stevens, Within Synapsial Contact

Geoff Stevens, Scuppered

Geoff Stevens edits Purple Patch poetry magazine from 25 Griffiths Road, West Bromwich, B71 2EH.

Paul Stronge, It Seems So Long Ago

Two Swimming-Pool Dreams

Paul Stronge is a London-based writer of fiction and poetry, currently working on a novel, provisionally entitled Blue Russian.

Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor was born and brought up in Hyde, near Manchester, and now lives in Kilburn, North London, as the English aspect of an Irish household. He is widely published in magazines and journals, and is currently assembling his first collection of poems. Poems are on this website, as 4 Poems about Power and Four Poems.

Thomas Lowe Taylor, from: the Homages of Eagle

Thomas Lowe Taylor (anabasis Press) lives in southwestern Washington State on the Long Beach Peninsula and copublishes Xtant Magazine with Jim Leftwich. His latest book is "A Mandala for her of the earth's whole place and name" and "The One, the Same, and the Other", ($13 ppd), anabasis.Xtant Books, 814-318 Place, Ocean Park WA 98640. He has work online in Word for Word, eratio, Samsära, xPress(ed), EXP, MPRSND, tin lustre mobile, 5 trope, moria, Big Bridge and BlazeVOX 2K4. Many of the Homages to Eagle are in these zines. The entire work runs to 900 pages, published in two volumes ($100) from anabasis.Xtant, 1512 Mountainside Court, Charlottesville VA 22903 USA. Email is anabasis@pacifier.com.

Barry Tebb, Twelve Poems

Barry Tebb wrote, published & edited in the Sixties, based in Leeds, and was included in Michael Horovitz's Children of Albion anthology (Penguin, 1969). He has returned to writing and publishing in recent years, running Sixties Press (89, Connaught Road, Sutton, SM1 3PJ) and editing curently Poetry Leeds Weekly. Recent publications include The Lights of Leeds (Redbeck Press, 2000), Closing Nostalgia Road: Selected Poems 1962-2002 (Sixties Press, 2002), James Simmons R.I.P. (Sixties Press, 2002), Letter to Apollinaire (Sixties Press, 2003), The Great Freedom: A novella about the 'Leeds Poetic Renaissance' of the Sixties (Sixties Press, 2002), and Margaret: A novella set in the Leeds of the 1940's (Sixties Press, 2002). The magnificent Collected Poems from Sixties Press is now out, and well worth exploring.

Huddersfield – The Second Poetry Capital of England, A Call to Arms, Leeds, An Evening with John Heath-Stubbs, and Construction/Reconstructions are from ; James Simmons R.I.P., Memories of the Fifties, One Hundred Ordinary American Women, Three Poems by Pierre Jean Jouve, Together, Acta Diurna, and Lochia are from James Simmons R.I.P..

Nathan Thompson, five poems

NNathan Thompson lives in Llandaff. His poems and prose poems have resently appeared, or will shortly appear, in Shearsman, Stride, Shadowtrain and Obsessed with Pipework. A selection of prose poems will be published in the forthcoming Bluechrome anthology A Combustible Edge edited by Rupert Loydell. He also reviews for Stride, Shearsman and Exultations and Difficulties.

Scott Thurston, Six Poems

Scott Thurston began participating in the literary scene situated around Gilbert Adair's Subvoicive Poetry reading series and Bob Cobbing's New River Project workshops in London in the late 1980s. In the early nineties he published two collections with Cobbing's Writers Forum press: Poems Nov 89-Jun 91 (1991) and Stateswalks (1994). These were followed by a selection in the anthology Sleight of Foot (Reality Street, 1996), Two Sequences (RWC, 1998), and, most recently Turns (with Robert Sheppard) (Ship of Fools/Radiator, 2003). He has recently completed a PhD on Contemporary British Linguistically Innovative Poetry and Poetics and contributes regularly to Poetry Salzburg Review, as well as being a contributor to Salt Publishing's 'Companion' series, editing the volume on Geraldine Monk and contributing to those on John Wilkinson, Allen Fisher, Maggie O'Sullivan and Lee Harwood. He runs the little magazine The Radiator and currently teaches English and Creative Writing at The University of Salford.

Andrew Topel, re-echoes

Andrew Topel is studying art education at Colorado State University, and has been published in a range of magazines (Lost and Found Times, xtant, Gestalten, Farrago, Blackbird, Basinsky, Answer Shirker, and Score), and in chapbooks: x (Broken Boulder Press), unwritten (xtant), skew (Anabasis/xtant) and puzzles (xPress(ed)).

Davide Trame, Three Poems