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Names of authors are put alphabetically immediately below - they are linked to the original brief paragraphs posted when individual works were first put on the site. This material has not been systematically updated, so mostly dates at latest from 2011. In a couple of cases I have retained an author's name, with no links to any texts - I have been asked, for whatever reason, to take the material down, but wish to record I did publish this writer. There is a complete index of all individual texts on the site, organised by author, simply listing individual titles, as the Quick Index.


Annotated Index of Authors

Susan Adams, five poems

Susan Adams is a Sydney poet who has been published in anthologies, e-zines, and hard copy journals both in Australia and internationally. She has been read on ABC Radio National Poetica. She is also a Research Scientist at the University of Sydney. She has work online on A Guide to Sydney Beaches (Meuse Press, 2009), Eclecticism Ezine and Cyclamens and Swords Publishing.

Sarah Ahmad, seven poems

Sarah Ahmad was born in India and now lives somewhere, somehow and broke, last seen around mountains in Canada. She has been lucky enough to have work published in some amazing places online as well as in print. Also her visual poetry work is part of Avant Writing Collection at the Ohio State University Rare Books & MSS Library. She desperately wants you to check out her blog Sarah Ahmad [alternative words]. Recent ebooks are closing eyes blazing life (ronin press, 2010), confined (space). (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2010), Inception, (Gold Wake Press, 2010), Closing Eyes Blazing Life (Argotist Books), & (Fanciful) Tales (andrewtopel, 2010), this is visual poetry, (this is visual poetry, 2010), was born, forced to see. Not dead yet. (cc&d/Scars Publications, 2010), My Bipolar head is epic fail (The Red Ceilings, 2010), Chaotic Disillusion (Calliope Nerve publications, 2010) and Unfulfilled Doubts (Artistically Declined Press, 2010).

Yousra Al Ayoubi, Give Me Another Day

Yousra Al Ayoubi is a distinguished Arab writer. She was born in 1929 in Damascus. The events of 1948 matured her writing skills, and between the years 1950-1955 she wrote short stories for the Syrian National Radio. She was married in 1954 to General Afif Al Bizri, who became the Chief-in-Command and the General Chief of Staff of the Syrian Armed Forces in 1957, during the democratic era of the fifties. Her life has been full with events, those experienced in childhood and youth and those in the company of her husband. She has four children and has divided her time between family and writing. She has written several long novels, plays and poems and translated many books from English to Arabic. Yousra Al Ayoubi's website contains poems, plays and lectures in Arabic and English.

Alexandre L Amprimoz, Five Poems

Alexandre Amprimoz is a poet, critic, translator, writer and programmer. He teaches Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario Canada. Books include: A Season For Birds: Selected poems by Pierre Morency (translation, Toronto: Exile Press, 1990); Venice At Her Mirror: Essay by Robert Marteau (translation, Toronto: Exile Press, 1990); Nostalgies de l'ange (Ottawa: Editions du Vermillon, 1993). He has recently published poems in: Alsop Review, Antigonish Review, Octavo, Dégaine ta rime, Resurrétion, Hélices and LittéRéalité. There are poems by him online at Triplopia, Ascent and starvingarts.com.

Sascha Anderson, trans Amos Weisz, Jewish Jetset

Sascha Anderson was a poet and cultural organiser, who helped create the underground Prenzlauer Berg artistic scene in East Berlin in the 1980s, based on a self-publishing post-punk aesthetic. He defected to the West in 1986 — but was revealed by Wolf Biermann in 1991 as an active agent of the Stasi even as he set up this alternative art scene. Anderson's "autobiographical novel", Sascha Anderson (Dumont, 2002) admits with neither guilt nor shame, but nearer self-justification. Other books include Jeder Satellit hat einen Killersatelliten: Gedichte 1971-1981 (Edition qwert zui opü, 1997) & Jewish Jetset (Editon Galrev, 1991).

Daniel Andersson

Daniel Andersson has had work published recently in 10th Muse, Anon, Orbis, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, The Worm, Brittle Star, The Journal. He lives in Berlin and writes a contemporary poetry blog, D. C. Andersson. A sequence of prose poems, Conveyancing Definitions, is forthcoming.

In Time of Empire and Verse

Moonlit Night (translating Hjalmar Gullberg, Månskensnatt)

two poems

Exhausted Angel

Angel Exhaust is in one of its periodic states of exhaustion. An amount of material was gathered before the (temporary) closure, we think it is of urgent literary interest, and we are taking the opportunity generously offered by the editor of Great Works to make it available to a discerning public.

(signed) Simon Smith      Andrew Duncan

Poems by David Bircumshaw, Carolyn Ducker, Paul Simmonds, Andy Brown, Wayne Clements, Nigel Wheale, Michael Krebs & Gig Ryan. Angel Exhaust 18 was subsequently published (Spring, 2005), edited by Charles Bainbridge & Andrew Duncan, with the poems in this selection included (but not the work by Andy Brown).

Robert Atherton, six poems

Robert Atherton is a senior poetry editor for the Black Market Review.

Glenn Bach, from: Atlas Peripatetic

The Atlas Peripatetic poems are inspired by an extensive mapping of sounds on the author's morning walk. Excerpts have appeared in such journals as Dusie, Indefinite Space, jubilat, mprsnd, Softblow, 42opus and CAB/NET. In addition to his work as a poet, Glenn Bach is also active as a visual/sound artist and curator. A listing (with links where online) to published sections of Atlas Peripatetic is given on his California State University Long Beach homepage, and Glenn also runs the site Pedestrian Culture: Walk, observe, reflect, report, "a portal for place-based research and creative projects, focused primarily on the humble and revolutionary act of walking".

Alan Baker

Alan Baker lives in Nottingham. He runs Leafe Press and is editor of the webzine Litter. He has published five pamphlets, The Causeway (1999), Not Bondi Beach (2002), both from Leafe Press, The Strange City (Secretariat Books, 2006), Hotel February (Bamboo Books, 2008), The World Seen from the Air (Skysill Press, forthcoming), and a translation: Yves Bonnefoy, Début et Fin de la Neige/The Beginning and End of the Snow (Leafe/Bamboo Books). On-line poetry at Shearsman and Shadowtrain. Alan blogs on Litterbug.

VARIATIONS ON PAINTING A ROOM

from The Book of Random Access

Each prose-poem in The Book of Random Access has 256 words and there are 64 in the full work (64=the number of hexagrams in the I Ching). Texts quoted are (42) The Encyclopaedia Brittanica on 'Halloween' and 'Life'; (43) Cocal Cola advert, The Encyclopaedia Brittanica on 'Life', Review of Wolf Tongue-Selected Poems 1965-2000 by Barry MacSweeney, Ian Brinton, Litter 2007 & Poetic Letters from England, letter 8, David Caddy; (44) The Encyclopaedia Brittanica on 'Halloween' and 'Taoism', The New Meditation Handbook, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (Tharpa Publications, 1993) & A Guide to the I Ching Carole K. Antony (Antony , 1980)

Andrew Baker, Epitaph of Reason

Donna Bamford, Poems

Donna Bamford is currently living in London, Ontario after a year travelling after second year Honours English at the University of Toronto. Much of her writing is about her travel experiences as she also lived in Greece, and Paris and London in the late seventies. She is a teacher of English as a second language as well as a freelance journalist, has written three children's books and is working on her first novel My Villa in Tuscany. She has recently published poetry on the internet in Electric Acorn, Scriberazone and Ygdrasil, as well as an essay in Another Toronto Quarterly, and more poetry in Bywords and The Breath Magazine, and two American ezines 24:7 and Muse Apprentice Guild.

Christopher Barnes

In 1998 Christopher Barnes won a Northern Arts writers award. Each year he reads for Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival and takes part in workshops. 2005 saw the publication of the collection LOVEBITES published by Chanticleer Press (Edinburgh). He has appeared in Angel Exhaust, and read at the Edinburgh Festival as a Per Verse poet. Christopher has a short film available online on gay history with BBC Tyne, and he can be heard reading on the MP3 edition of The Wolf. He has engaged in extensive poetic, film-making and other artistic work in the North-East, including a solo art/poetry exhibition at The People's Theatre, Newcastle. Christopher has written poetry reviews for Poetry Scotland and Jacket Magazine, where he also has poems online. In August 2007 he made a film A Blank Screen, 60 seconds, 1 shot for Queerbeats Festival at The Star & Shadow Cinema Newcastle, reviewing a poem (go to www.myspace.com/queerbeatsfestival). Christopher was involved in the Five Arts Cities poetry postcard event which exhibited at The Seven Stories children's literature building.

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Richard Barrett

Richard Barrett is a poet based in Manchester. He posts an excellent blog, Yawn, on which will be found his sequence the rushes, also available as a video of Richard reading it all on The Other Room site.

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two poems

Tina Bass, Poems

Tina Bass has been submitting poetry and short stories for publication since 2004. She has had published Fat Man Dancing from Poetry Monthly Press and Mechanical Expressions from Writers Forum. Mouthings (a book of conversations) is due for publication in 2008 from Intercapillary Editions. During daylight hours she works as a Senior Lecturer in Business at Coventry University. Tina has a MySpace presence.

David Berridge, The Ilex Road

Davis Berridge lives in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, where he organises the ALOUD reading and chapbook series. Poems and sequences are published in Fire, Shearsman, NOON: A Journal of the Short Poem and online at Word For/Word and Fascicle. Career Choices, a chapbook, will be published by Furniture Press in 2006.

Sam Bilbie, Two Poems

Sam Bilbie attends the University of York

David Bircumshaw, eight poems

David Bircumshaw is resident of Leicester, poet, web publisher and organiser of occasional poetic events in King Lear's multiethnic city (often within Leicester Poetry Society). His website Spectare's Web hosts issues of his occasional online magazine A Chide's Alphabet, and major online collection or single works: A Stapled Napkin, Painting Without Numbers, Parousia, The Cabinet of Dr Spectare and The Ghost Machine. His most recent book is The Animal Subsides (Arrowhead Press, 2004), his blog is Groggydays (also contributing to poneme), and he tweets at http://twitter.com/bucketshave. He is a national treasure!

Bissme, To Be His Lover

This is a fiction story by Bissme, from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She is contactable on bissme@hotmail.com.

Michael Blackburn, LET'S BUILD A CITY

Poet, writer and artist. Currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Lincoln. Most recent collection The Ascending Boy (Flambard). Former roles include: Co-Director Morden Tower (Newcastle), Literature Development Worker, Festival Director, Editor & Publisher (Stand Magazine, Harry's Hand, Jackson's Arm, Sunk Island, etc), Writer In Residence On The Internet (1995, c/o Arts Council/Channel). Main website Art Zero; busy reviving Sunk Island Review as an online magazine; also a highly active MySpace presence.

NOTES: T Dan Smith (1915-1993) was a prominent politician in the north-east of England in the 1960s and was the Leader of Newcastle City Council between 1960 and 1965. He was responsible for a large amount of redevelopment within the city, including slum clearance and the building of new housing stock and a motorway network. He had a great vision of Newcastle as the 'new Brasilia' of the north and was a passionate exponent of regionalism and the arts. Unfortunately, his business dealings were tainted with corruption and after a number of trials he finally received a prison sentence in 1974. The poem was sourced from the text of An Autobiography by Smith, published by Oriel Press in 1970.

Elisabeth Bletsoe, The Separable Soul

Elisabeth Bletsoe lives in NW Dorset. The Separable Soul is part of an ongoing project about the area. Publications include The Regardians: A Book of Angels, Portraits of the Artist's Sister, (Odyssey 1994), Pharmacopoeia (Odyssey 1999), and Landscape from a Dream (Shearsman, 2008).

Note by the author concerning The Separable Soul: Since the swan moves in the three elements of earth, water and air, it has been traditionally associated with shape-shifting, especially in the form of a young woman. Tales of the animal-wife as swan-maiden occur universally, telling of a lover lost when she resumes her original form. Usually this is due to the lover breaking a taboo or committing a misdemeanour through lack of communication, whereupon she disappears silently back into her supernatural life. I am indebted to Jeremy Sherr's Dynamis group for the homeopathic provings of Cygnus which provide a starting-point for this text.

Lisa Bloomfield, Trilogy (will open in new window)

Lisa Bloomfield holds an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley in anthropology and an MFA in photography from California Institute of the Arts. She has been on the studio art faculty at UCLA, Otis Art Institute and the University of Washington and is currently Assistant Professor: Digital Media Arts and Design at Orange Coast College in southern California. Lisa's artwork has been concerned with the interplay of text and image and often explores memory and identity. Over the years her work has included collaborations with several fiction writers and has, as well, appeared in billboard, magazine double-page spread, book works, print-based and installation formats. In 1994 she became interested in web-based narrative pieces and continues to experiment in that realm. Lisa lives in Los Angeles with her husband, fiction writer, Rod Moore, and son, Aaron, a budding guitarist.

Other work can be seen at University of California Riverside / California Museum of Photography website, and on her own site: a wonderful range of material exploring images, words & hypertext possibilities.

Allison Boast

Allison Boast completed a BA Creative Writing Degree at the University of Bedfordshire in September 2006. She is currently trying to juggle earning a living and writing. Most recently her work has been published in Fire magazine (Issue no. 28) and on the Noise Festival website. She has read a selection of her work at the Crossing the Line poetry event (August 2006). She is the Chief Editor of the experimental writing website Write Off and can be contacted on skullshock2000@yahoo.co.uk.

To Fast to Fall

Crazed Dawn

Sean Bonney, The Heresy

The pieces are now published as parts of Notes on Heresy, (Writers Forum, 2002). Two other booklets, The Rose (Canary Woof Press, 2001) and The Domestic Poems (hard eye ball, 2001) are available directly from Sean Bonney – contact sean_bonney@hotmail.com. A major collection was published by Salt in 2005: Blade Pitch Control Unit. Sean has a page on the BEPC site.

Please note that in order to approximate Sean Bonney's layout, these pages are quite specific in requiring Georgia font, at 12 pt size, on an 800x60 pixel screen, &, regrettably, they appear better on Internet Explorer than Firefox. If your monitor size differs, you will need to alter the size of the font displayed by your browser. They also use tables for layout & some lines are images-files. HTML is just not made for fancy layouts!

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Tilla Brading, Two Poems

Tilla Brading has been published widely in magazines, on the net in How2. Her most recent collection is Notes in a Manor of Speaking from Leafe Press (2002) (also AUTUMnal JOUR [Maquette Press, 1998]). There are poems on Litter and Shearsman. Tilla Brading co-edited Poetry Quarterly Review and Odyssey Press.

Paul Bramley, Six Poems

Paul Bramley lives and works in Bristol.

Iain Britton, five poems

Iain Britton teaches in Auckland, New Zealand. Iain Britton's first collection of poems Hauled Head First into a Leviathan was published by Cinnamon Press in February 2008, which was a Forward Poetry Prize nomination. Interactive Press (Australia) will be publishing his second collection this year. He has had Poetry published or forthcoming in such magazines as Ambit, Agenda, Stand, Stride, Snorkel, The Argotist Online, The Warwick Review, Shadowtrain, White Leaf Review, harvestmagazine, Otoliths, Wolf Magazine, Ouroboros Review, Blackbox Manifold, Harvard Review, foam:e, The Drunken Boat, Jacket, Meanjin and others. He has recently had a pamphlet, Cravings , published by Oystercatcher Press. His website is www.iainbritton.co.nz.

J Brooke, six stories

j brooke is an ex pat American that is so ashamed of George W Bush and his LUNATIC FRINGE of killers like A Gonzalez, D Cheny and C Rice, he gave up his USA citizenship and now lives as a Mexican in Zipolite Mexico. He can be contacted on jbrooke2001@yahoo.com.

Chris Brownsword, two poems

Recent poems featured in The Canting Academy anthology (ISPress, 2008), Salamanders and Mandrakes (ISPress, 2009), Angel Exhaust #20 and Shearsman # 81/82. (the poultice route), a five poem pamphlet published in 2006, is still available from West House Books/Gargoyle Editions.

Paul Buck, nu

The beginning of a new sequence. Paul's most recent book is Lisbon: A Cultural and Literary Companion, (Signal Books, 2001)

Adam Burbage, five poems

Adam Burbage has been writing poetry for several years. These poems form part of a longer sequence, an attempt to write a kind of poetic diary. These entries cover the period May 2006 to April 2007. Further entries can be found at Stride Magazine. Adam works in publishing, and lives in Oxfordshire with his fiance. He can be contacted on adam.burbage@googlemail.com.

Graham Burchell, five poems

Graham Burchell was born in Canterbury, and now writes full-time from his home in Devon. He is the editor of Words-Myth — A Quarterly Poetry Journal and winner of a number of major poetry competitions. His collection, Vermeer's Corner was published in 2008. His website is Graham Burchell — Author/poet, and he is also present on Poetry PF.

sean burn

sean burn is a writer, performer and outsider artist with a growing international reputation. his twenty five poetry films have received many screenings worldwide. the third of his spoken word cd's is speaksong with musician gareth mitchell. skrev press recently published a third full-length collection of his – wings are giving out – (isbn 978-1-904646-56-3).

outstaring

trans literations

trans literations – i was privileged to hear the fine north american free improvising pianist marilyn crispell in a quartet (with evan parker, one of my musical heroes, and barry guy – bass (ditto) and paul lytton percussion) at the appleby jazz festival. this piece is partly a transcription ov an imagined solo ov hers while also improvising on music and loss. select discography:

select discography for Marilyn Crispell relevant to trans literations
 

live in zurich

leo cd lr 122

the kitchen concert

leo cd lr 178

santuerio

leo cd lr 191

for coltrane

leo cd lr 195

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Richard Burns, Poems from The Blue Butterfly

Richard Burns (aka Richard Berengarten) lives in Cambridge. His most recent publications are The Blue Butterfly, Selected Writings 2 (Salt Publishing, 2006), For the Living: Selected Writings 1. Longer Poems 1965-2000, (Salt Publishing, 2004) and In a Time of Drought (Shoestring Press, 2006). The Blue Butterfly is a sequence of poems whose twin points of departure are a massacre of civilians outside the town of Kragujevac in October 1941, and an encounter with a blue butterfly at the same location in 1985. The book has been twenty years in the making. The poems on this site come from that sequence. There is a note with details of the Kragujevac massacre if you click on the title to Don't send bread tomorrow. To find out more about Richard, visit his very fine Richard Burns website.

Sean Carey, three poems

Born in Cork, Ireland in 1951. Interested in reading and writing from an early age. Most of his literary career was spent on the voluntary literary circuit in Dublin between 1981 and 2005 as an organiser and host. Founder and co-founder and member of many literary groupings. These included The Modernist Study Group, Statoblast, Voice Free, The James Connolly Red Poets Society, and many others. Two books due from Spectacular Diseases Press titled Free Range and Submariners. Work on line in Jacket 31, LVNG 9, The Irish American Post Spring 2006.

Srinjay Chakravarti

Srinjay Chakravarti is a 33-year-old journalist, economist and poet based in Salt Lake City, Calcutta, India. He was educated at St. Xavier's College, Calcutta and at universities based in Calcutta and New Delhi. His poetry has appeared in numerous publications worldwide. Apart from Great Works, these include The Poetry Kit, Snakeskin, The Journal, Poetry Scotland, Euphony, The Melic Review, Eclectica, The Pedestal, Dimsum, Voices Israel, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Liminal Pleasures, DeepSouth and Poetry Salzburg Review. His first book of poems Occam's Razor (Writers Workshop, Calcutta) received the SALT literary award from John Kinsella and an Australian literary trust in 1995.

David Chaloner, three poems

Born in rural Cheshire in 1944 David Chaloner spent his early years dreaming of escape. As the closest city, Manchester provided a cultural and social context for his early writing, when jazz was available in clubs created from empty cotton warehouses and Granada Television struggled with the idea of a new arts programme that included poetry. Apart from 'Little Press' publication, the first published work appeared in the Tandem paperback Generation X, a true sociological record of the times, and the Penguin anthology, Children of Albion. In the late sixties he founded ONE, a magazine for new writing, that existed through the transitional years of a move to London in the early seventies. A continuing sense of enquiry and curiosity informs his work and helps in pushing the possibilities of language, music and image in varying and divers ways. David Chaloner died in 2010. Salt published his Collected Poems in 2005.

Simon Charlton, The Distance of Dreams new

(Maturely) educated at Closereach House, Plymouth. Croydon College and Harris Manchester College, Oxford University. Employed as PA/Carer. Reading Neruda, Borges, Henri Ford, Lagerkvist. Had bits and pieces published in Equinox, Decanto, New Hope International, Inclement. Simon Charlton can be contacted at simonjcharlton@hotmail.com.

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Adrian Clarke

First published by Eric Mottram in the Poetry Review winter 1972-73 issue, Adrian Clarke resurfaced in the mid 80s with Reading Reverdy and Ghost Measures from Paul Brown's Actual Size. Then began a long association with Bob Cobbing and Writers Forum which included co-editing AND magazine from 1994. Also co-edited Floating Capital with Robert Sheppard in 1991. After Cobbing's death in 2002 ran Writers Forum jointly with Lawrence Upton. His collections include Skeleton Sonnets (Writers Forum, 2002) and Former Haunts (Veer Books, 2004). Adrian Clarke's most recent collection is POSSESSION, POEMS 1996-2006 (Veer/Writers Forum Books, 2007). A recording including some of SUPPLEMENTARY BLUES may be found at www.archiveofthenow.com.

from Supplementary Blues

Possession

from Eurochants

Lucy Harvest Clarke

Born in East Sussex in 1982 Lucy lives and works in London acting as a freelance painter/renovator/photographer/drink maker/language teacher/learner/general career avoider. Work is at onedit issue 11, in Parameter magazine issue 7, in The Other Room Anthology 08/09.

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Jon Clay, five poems from Here

Jon Clay is originally from Rugby in Warwickshire but has lived in London for over ten years; he now lives in Clapham with his family and is working in Further Education. Here 1-24 was published this year by Veer Books, some poems from which were first published in Veer Off. A poetics of reading/ work of criticism is to be published (all being well) by Continuum next year, entitled Sensation, Contemporary Poetry and Deleuze: Transformative Intensities. In the meantime, Here is an ongoing poetic project that may last as long as he does.

Mark Cobley, seven poems

Mark Cobley lives in the High Peaks of Derbyshire. He has had numerous poems published in small magazines and the first part of his long poem The Flaming Man was published recently by Parameter Magazine as a chapbook. Forthcoming work is being translated into Turkish as part of the Conversation International Poetry Project. He also takes care of the poetry blog the red ceilings, which seeks submissions.

Arthur Coleman, five poems

Arthur Leo Coleman IV hails originally from the suburbs of New York City. He attended Hunter College in Manhattan, where he pursued an independent study in Linguistics in affiliation with the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He spent some years living in Mexico City and Buenos Aires, working as an Editorial Correspondent for a financial news wire. Currently he resides in Los Angeles where he is at work on his first novel. The poet is 27 years old. His website Atavism: The writings of Arturo Leo Coleman IV has many of his poems posted on it.

Tracee Coleman, Two Poems

Tracee Coleman is a poet residing in Texas. Her poetry has been published internationally in print and online. She spends most of her free time editing and maintaining alittlepoetry.com. Recent work appears at The Argotist Online.

Jennifer Cooke, five poems

Jennifer Cooke works in the Department of English and Drama, Loughborough University, and has published Legacies of Plague in Literature, Theory and Film (Palgrave, 2009). Recent poetry has been published in Onedit, Quid, Intercapillary Space and Succour, and also has an essay on Keston Sutherland's Hot White Andy in Complicities: British Poetry 1945–2007, eds. Robin Purves and Sam Ladkin (Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007). She is taking part in Dusie Kollectiv 5.

Kelvin Corcoran, Poems

Kelvin Corcoran has written nine books of poetry and his work has been anthologised here and the USA. His most recent publications include Melanie's Book (West House Books, 1996), When Suzy Was (Shearsman, 1999), & Your Thinking Tracts or Nations (with Alan Halsey) (West House Books, 2001). My Life With Byron is forthcoming from Equipage. The poem MacSweeney will be published by Harry Gilonis as a poemcard. Recently published is New and Selected Poems (Shearsman, 2004)

Rosemarie Crisafi, Poems

Rosemarie Crisafi lives in Fishkill, New York. She works in for a non-for-profit agency that serves individuals with disabilities. Her poetry has been widely published, including in ken*again, BlazeVox, Wicked Alice Poetry Journal, Niederngasse, Eclectica, nth position.

Alison Croggon, Untitled poems + Arthur

See Alison's site. Also read Specula on The Drunken Boat website. Salt published Attempts at Being in 2002.

M T C Cronin, five poems

MTC Cronin has published fourteen collections of poetry (including several in translation), and has four forthcoming in 2007: Irrigations (of the Human Heart) — Fictional Essays on the Poetics of Living, Art & Love (Ravenna Press, USA); Our Life is a Box. / Prayers Without a God (Soi 3, Thailand/Australia); Notebook of Signs (& 3 Other Small Book)s (Shearsman Books, UK); and How Does a Man Who is Dead Reinvent His Body? — The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli (written with Peter Boyle, Shearsman Books, UK). She has recently completed her doctorate – The Catastrophe of Meaning: Writing on Poetry, Law, Justice & Desire. She currently lives in Maleny (Queensland, Australia) with her partner and three young daughters. There is a brief article on Wikipedia with useful links, and an introduction and several poems online on PIW. There are some recent poems on Shadowtrain.

John Crouse & Jim Leftwich, Acts

John Crouse resides in Vancouver, Washington, USA with his wife and two children, "Used Car Salesman By Day & Candy Factory Worker By Rights". Publications include Torque (O Books, 1995), Eventing (Potes &Poets, 1999), Prefaces (Xtant Books, 2001), Headlines (O Books, 2001), & Buncamps Trolls by John Crouse and Jim Leftwich (Xtant Books, 2002), and online: Belows (pdf chapbook from Broken Boulder Press), from OH an essay by John Crouse and Andrew Topel in Wordriot, BUNYA-BUNYA AY NUB? by John Crouse and Andrew Topel in The Café Irreal #10, and more Actses in xStream #25.

Jim Leftwich also produces a number of blogs and blogzines, eg textimagepoem, of submitted images — textimagepoems — others include: textimagetext giving work from Acts, and The Art of Books & Small Print Publications posting covers of and images from such (with a mail art interest).

Jim Leftwich lives in Charlottesville, Virginia and is the author of Doubt and improvisations transformations (Potes & Poets), Sample Example (Luna Bisonte), and The Canard (anabasis/xtantbooks). From 1994 to 2001 he co-edited Juxta and Juxta Electronic, and edited Xtant 4 with Tom Taylor, Tim Gaze, Andy Topel, Michael Peters, and Scott Macleod. Luna Bisonte Prods have published a range of material: DIRT (including a hack by John M Bennett), GNOMMONCLATURE Collaborative Poems (withH Jeffrey Little) and Sample Example – Visual Lyrics. Online work includes REMEMBER! (a book), (collaborations available as jpgs, including with John Crouse), and more collaborations with John M Bennett in LYNX A Journal for Linking Poets. Forthcoming from antboo: the devils avocado – collaborative disquisitions.

John Crouse and Jim Leftwitch, with John M Bennett, Thomas Lowe Taylor and Andrew Topel are all active in a very interesting and diverse poetic scene involving collaborations and visual poems as well as more traditional texts – well worth exploring this material if you are not already aware of it. Check the links above, or listed for John Lowe Taylor & Andrew Topel.

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Claire Crowther, six poems

Claire Crowther's poetry can be found in recent (2007) or forthcoming issues of The North, Nth Position, Shadowtrain, Shearsman, Times Literary Supplement and in forthcoming anthologies We are Twenty People (Enitharmon) and Only Connect (Cinnamon Press). Her first full collection Stretch of Closures was published by Shearsman Press in February 2007. She has been awarded a bursary to write a collection of poems on grandmotherhood for a PhD at Kingston University. "Learner" appears in print in Stretch of Closures.

Tony Cullen, two poems

Tony Cullen has recently completed his MA in Writing Studies at Edge Hill University and is a member of the Edge Hill Poetry and Poetics Research Group.

Mark Cunningham

Mark Cunningham has three books out: 80 Beetles from Otoliths, Body Language from Tarpaulin Sky, and 71 Leaves, an ebook from BlazeVox. Right Hand Pointing has just put out a chapbook titled nightlightnight with neat photographs by Mel Nichols.

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Catherine Daly

Catherine Daly was valedictorian of her class at St. Teresa of Avila High School in a small blue collar city in the American Midwest. An Illinois Scholar at Trinity College and Merit Fellow at Columbia University, Daly has worked as a technical architect, officer in a Wall Street investment bank, engineer supporting the space shuttle orbiter, software developer for motion picture studios, and teacher. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband. She is the author of many extremely innovative collections of poetry (print &/or ebooks): DaDaDa (Salt, 2003), Locket (Tupelo Press, 2005), To Delite and Instruct (blue lion books, 2006), Paper Craft (Moria, 2006), Secret Kitty (Ahadada, 2006), Chanteuse / Cantatrice (factory school, 2007), Kittenhood (Ahadada Books, 2007), Vauxhall (Shearsman Books, 2008). She also runs i.e. Press, and blogs as Dreamer in the Wake, and on the collective blogs Art - Movement - Writing, Re/Search, Translation, Work and As/Is

Six in a Mix (Odds)

is a sampling from a text based on a 1960s children's school workbook.

Surplice

James Davies

James Davies has two short e-collections: The Manual Handling Process (Beard of Bees) and Acronyms (onedit). He has a collection Plants due from Reality Street in 2012. He is one half of the poetry/photography duo Joy as Tiresome Vandalism who have a collection aRb (if p then q) and are currently working on Absolute Elsewhere, found in progress at www.joyastiresomevandalism.wordpress.com. In addition he is editor of if p then q and one of the organisers of The Other Room.

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Devin Davis, Poems

Called "ink (or, maybe, inc.)" in a seaside vision, devin davis (aka townee) has written well-over 2,000 poems and has published 12 chapbooks as part of his Divan. His poetry has found an audience on both coasts of North America, in Canada, England and Nepal; and more is available at various sites on-line. He has been a featured poet at Tower Books, and Barnes and Noble Books. He has read on the north steps of the Capitol in his hometown of Sacramento. Davis is also the author of Segment, a children's story, which may be read at Locust Magazine.

Peter Dent & Rupert M Loydell, Overgrown Umbrellas

The poets Peter Dent and Rupert Loydell keep up an active correspondence by old-fashioned mail, and have recently completed two collaborative sequences, Overgrown Umbrellas being one of them. The first poem in the sequence has been published in Gists & Piths magazine.

Peter Dent was born in Forest Gate, London, but has spent most of his life in Surrey and Devon. A teacher for twenty years, he is now retired, devoting the greater part of his time to writing. He was the editor/publisher of Interim Press from 1975 to 1987, where he published numerous volumes of poetry and essays on such writers as George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, Thomas A. Clark and Allen Upward. With others he has translated from the Sanskrit and Urdu. His own work, both poetry and prose-poetry, has been published widely in magazines and anthologies both in Britain and abroad, since the 1950s, including Litter. His recent books include Simple Geometry (Oasis Books), At the Blue Table (Blackthorn Press), Settlement (Leafe Press), Unrestricted Moment (Stride), Adversaria (stride) and the 2005 Shearsman collection, Handmade Equations. There are other works by Rupert Loydell on Great Works.

Mark Dickinson

A chapbook entitled Littoral has been published by Prest Roots Press 2007 (reviewed in Intercapillary Space, and poetry has previously appeared in Intercapillary space, Shearsman, the Gig anthology Onsets and the Peek Review. Work is forthcoming in ed Harriet Tarlo, The Ground Aslant: Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman 2011). Mark lives and struggles to work in Scarborough, N. Yorkshire, where he was born and educated. He has read, as a "surf poet" at Scarborough's Electric Angel Gallery. His recently completed meditation on and encounter with landscape Trods which Follow is online at Cordite Poetry Review, and is highly recommended.

from The Speed of Clouds

The poems are taken from each section/ modulation of The Speed of Clouds.

from Shadows of the Sea

Linh Dinh, Two Poems

Linh Dinh is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press 2000) and Blood and Soap (Seven Stories Press 2004), and three books of poems, All Around What Empties Out (Tinfish 2003), American Tatts (Chax 2005) and Borderless Bodies (Factory School 2005). His work has been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, Best American Poetry 2004 and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, among other places. He's living in Norwich, as a David T.K. Wong fellow at the University of East Anglia.

Laurie Duggan, Thirty pieces

Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne in 1949, lived in Brisbane, and now in Shoreham in Kent. He has published numerous books of poems, the most recent of these being Memorials (Little Esther 1996), Mangroves (University of Queensland Press, 2003), and, with Shearsman Press, The Ash Range (new edition of a documentary poem first published in 1987) and Compared to What: Selected Poems 1971-2003 (both 2005). Let's Get Lost (Vagabond Press), a collaborative work (with Pam Brown and Ken Bolton) appeared in 2005 and a new book The Passenger (UQP) is to appear in June 2006. He has also published a cultural history Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture 1901-1939 (UQP, 2001).

Kevin Doran, three poems

Kevin Doran's poetry, articles, reviews, and (digital) photography/art are published or forthcoming in 2008 Anthology of Younger Poets, Dwarf Stars Anthology, Dusie, World Haiku Review, elimae, Otoliths, Unpleasant Event Schedule, Scifaikuest, iota, and others. He was nominated for a 2007 SFPA (Science Fiction Poetry Association) Dwarf Stars Award. Visit his blog for more info, and also Triptych Haiku and Oculus, blogzines he is involved with.

Andrew Duncan

Andrew Duncan has recently published Anxiety Before Entering a Room (new and selected poems), Skeleton Looking at Chinese Pictures, Pauper Estate, and Switching and Main Exchange. Visit also his website! Recent titles from Salt are: Anxiety Before Entering a Room and The Imaginary in Geometry, and The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry. Angel Exhaust) co-edited with Charles Bainbridge) is back to life also. Andrew has a page on the BEPC site.

Swanning with the Bishop

An inside with no outside

A review of ed. Nicholas Johnson, Foil: defining poetry 1985-2000 (etruscan books, 2000, ISBN 1 901 538 28; £8.50, 395 pp) – which Andrew interrogates very forcefully. I'll be the good cop, and say buy it and discover its pleasures (& its crimes), from etruscan books, 28 Fowler's Court, Buckfastleigh, Devon, TQ11 0AA (+ £1 p&p).

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Gareth Durasow

Gareth Durasow is a West Yorkshire poet who has an inexcusable tendency to run with the MOR hares and the avant-garde hounds. He has had poetry published in Cake, Grist, LeftLion and Spine. His writing and performances have won prizes at Ilkey and Huddersfield literature festivals. His plays for the award-winning theatre company Horizon Arts have won nothing at all. See all on his website: Gareth Durasow: Poetry Page Performance. He is one of those responsible for the Letterbomb reading series in Leeds. And there's a good interview on LeftLion.

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Michael Egan

Michael Egan is a poet from Liverpool. His first collection The River Swam was published in 2005. He is currently studying an MA in Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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AnnMarie Eldon

AnnMarie Eldon is an identical twin, evolved from cryptophasic origins in once densely industrialised Birmingham, England. She was taught by her gypsy grandmother to say the alphabet backwards before the age of three. Juggling various personae interiorae, children and hormones and practicing counter-cultural reclusiveness, she achieves adult differentiation and spiritual equanimity within the mediocrity of a picturesque Oxfordshire market town. Her latest collection, Some2 is available from Lulu. Recent publications include work in Ocho 19, and on Protest Poems, Fiera Lingue, zafusy and Intercapillary Space. AnnMarie also has an AnnMarie Eldon blog.

Stephen Emmerson

Stephen Emmerson lives in the North of England (no he doesn't! - now lives in South London, and runs Blart magazine & imprint and Footsy Index (sometimes Footsie Index - try Facebooking) events with Lucy Harvest Clarke), and his work has appeared in Jacket, Great Works, Cake, Poetry Salzburg Review, nthposition, FREAKLUNG, SPINE, Half Circle, and The Red Ceilings. He is the author of X (The Arthur Shilling Press, 2009), Chimera (Erbacce, 2010), Attack of the gas powered Angels (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010) and Poems found at the scene of a murder (ZimZalla, 2010). No Ideas but in Things by Chris Stephenson and Stephen Emmerson is coming soon from The Arthur Shilling Press. He also edits the ezone blart.

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Power Pollution + THUD

Carrie Etter, from Divining for Starters

Carrie Etter is an American expatriate resident in England since 2001; she makes her home in Bradford-on-Avon, and teaches as an Associate Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, as well as as a tutor for the Poetry School. Divining for Starters is both a series and a manuscript in progress including other works. Her poems have appeared in The Forward Book of Poetry 2005, The Liberal, The New Republic, Poetry Review, Shearsman, Staple, The Times Literary Supplement, and other journals and anthologies in the UK and the USA. She has work online on the Limelight section of The Poem, Alterran Poetry Assemblage, La Petite Zine, and elsewhere. And she has her own Carrie Etter blog.

Gareth Farmer, Rise to Order

Gareth Farmer is a DPhil student at the University of Sussex on the poetry and critical writing of Veronica Forrest-Thomson and lives in Hove, East Sussex. He also works in the university library. His publications as a poet are Apply Brakes (pp, 2006), Dawn's Resolve and Dusk Falls (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010) and Mock into the Brazen Day (yt communication, 2010). He has also had poems in Axolotl, Quid, Crater and Shearsman Magazine.

Patricia Farrell, four poems

Patricia Farrell has had books published by Reality Street and Writers Forum. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines, including Shadowtrain. She has also taken part in exhibitions in London, Birmingham, Portsmouth and Cologne. She has collaborated as a poet and visual artist with, amongst others, Robert Sheppard and Jennifer Pike Cobbing. Ship of Fools was set up in the mid 1980s by Robert Sheppard and Patricia Farrell, for the purpose of publishing their art and text collaborations.

Adam Fieled

Adam Fieled is a poet based in Philadelphia. He has released four print books: Opera Bufa (Otoliths, 2007), When You Bit... (Otoliths, 2008), Chimes (Blazevox, 2009), and Apparition Poems (Blazevox, 2010) as well as numerous chaps, e-chaps, and e-books, including Posit (Dusie Press, 2007), Beams (Blazevox, 2007), and The White Album (ungovernable press, 2009). He has work in journals like Tears in the Fence, Great Works, The Argotist Online, Upstairs at Duroc, Jacket, on PennSound, in the &Now Awards Anthology from Lake Forest College Press, and an essay forthcoming in Poetry Salzburg Review from University of Salzburg Press. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, he also holds an MFA from New England College and an MA from Temple University, where he is completing his PhD. His poetry blog is Stoning the Devil: "Because culture is a conversation", Adam Fieled: Poetry is largely interviews with poets, he contributes to As/Is blog, runs a major blogzine, P.F.S. Post: Maximum Post-Avant, and also a collaborative blog with Andrew Lundwall, funtime.

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A Lee Firth, nine poems

Lee has been writing poetry for twenty years, with poems published in many small press magazines and anthologies, and online. Most of his published work is available as an archive on his blog Lost Among Equals; Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle is his other blog.

Fish and Shushan, three poems

Fish and Shushan are an astronaut with a guitar and her 'I like girls a lot' music
and . . . a flower growing quietly from the wall

there are also trees and inappropriate thoughts!

Fish is trying to learn the chords for Stockton Gala Days
while perfecting the art of charming bees out of their honey.

Shushan buzzes in and out of material space with the electric humm
of honeybee wings. She also likes to paint.

These poems are from the unpublished poetry collection, The Chatter of Birds. Shushan is Vanessa Kittle, who lives out on Long Island with her evil kitten, Sombrero. A former chef and lawyer, Vanessa is now an English composition professor. She published 2 collections of poetry in 2006: a chapbook called Apart, and a full-length book called Surviving the Days of the Empire, both with The March Street Press. Her work has recently been in The New Renaissance, Nerve Cowboy, Limestone, Ibbetson Street, and A Generation Defining Itself anthology. Vanessa edits Abramelin, the Journal of Poetry and Magick.

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Allen Fisher, SLOP

Allen Fisher is represented on on BEPC: British Electronic Poetry Centre, and a brief account of the career and recent publications (out of many!) of this vital, pioneering and inspiring figure is given there. Allen also has his own Allen Fisher website.

SLOP is part of a long sequence called Gravity as a consequence of shape; The Gig published 250 plus pages from the sequence as a book called ENTANGLEMENT, and SALT published the first five books from the sequence in a book called GRAVITY in 2004. Reality Street republished the great ur-text Spanner in 2005.

Colin Fleming, Blinkered

Colin Fleming's work has appeared in Metropolis, The Village Voice, Art in America, MOJO, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among other venues. He is currently finishing his first novel. There is work online on The Deepening, right hand pointing and Storyglossia.

Tim Fletcher, four poems

Tim Fletcher started his professional career as a military bandsman. On leaving the army he graduated at Christ Church College, Canterbury and became a teacher. Tim Fletcher left the teaching profession several years ago to make music and write poetry. He has been published in several poetry journals. He is at present involved in making a CD of readings and musics called Ignis Innaturalis which is concerned with many diverse aspects of alchemy. The CD also incorporates Fletcher playing jazz flute, soprano sax and bass clarinet and various types of ambient sounds. Tim Fletcher is also the long standing editor of First Offense, an avant garde and contemporary poetry journal.

Jago Flood, Two Poems

Jago Flood, aged 34, lives in St Ives, Cornwall & on narrowboat on Grand Union Canal; musician/poet/playwright (play on in Edinburgh Festival & on tour); work published in various UK/US publications, print & online.

S J Fowler, nine poems

S J Fowler (born 1983) has had poetry featured in over 70 publications and his first collections are to be published in early 2011. He is a member of the Writers Forum poetry group and an employee of the British Museum. He edits the Maintenant interview series for 3:am Magazine showcasing contemporary experimental European poets and the Reilluminations series for nthposition online magazine focused on overlooked European poets of the 20th century (both accompanied by translations, many by him). His recent publications are Saint Augustine of Hippo (with the artist David Kelly) (Kitts Press, 2010), Animal Husbandry (with the artist Sian Williams) (Kitts Press, 2010), Fights I: Arthur Abraham (The Knives Forks & Spoons Press, 2010), Klitschko (Zimzalla art object No.6, 2010), Fights III: Antonio Margarito (Arthur Shilling Press, 2010), Poggel Intricate (Writers Forum, 2010) and Fights II: Yuriorkis Gamboa (The Red Ceilings ebook, 2010). Forthcoming are Fights: Cycle I-XX (Veer Books, 2011) and a collection from The Knives Forks & Spoons Press. Innumerable magazine and internet publications, listed and/or linked on his website, sjfowlerpoetry.

Glenn R Frantz

Glenn R. Frantz is a native of southeastern Pennsylvania, USA. His poems have appeared in publications such as Arsenic Lobster, ditch, Cricket, Sawbuck, and Blackbox Manifold. His e-chapbook We Are You is available from Beard of Bees. And his homepage lists his poetry and music online.

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Bridge / Lawn / Solarium

Charles Freeland teaches composition and creative writing at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. The recipient of a 2008 Individual Excellence Grant from the Ohio Arts Council, he is the author of several chapbooks of poetry, including Furiant, Not Polka (Moria), The Case of the Danish King Halfdene (Mudlark), and Where We Saw Them Last (Lily Press). Recent work appears in Poetry International, Mipoesias, Spinning Jenny, 580 Split, Harpur Palate, and The Cincinnati Review. His website is The Fossil record. There are further poems on Great Works.

Charles Frederickson, Three Poems

A pragmatic idealist and longtime resident of Thailand, Dr Charles Frederickson has travelled to 206 countries, an original sketch and poetic impression of each presented on http://imagesof.8k.com. PhD (Loyola) and Post-Doctoral Visiting Fellow (Columbia); MENSA; International Emmy, Clio, SAG, Student Academy Awards and New York Awards Judge; film, video & CD-ROM writer, performer, director and producer.

Charles Freeland

Charles Freeland lives in Dayton, Ohio. His books, e-books and chapbooks include Through the Funeral Mountains on a Burro (forthcoming from Otoliths), Grubb (BlazeVOX books), Furiant, Not Polka (Moria), and The Case of the Danish King Halfdene (Mudlark). His website is The Fossil Record and his blog is Spring Cleaning in the Labyrinth of the Continuum.

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Rich Furman, Three Poems

Angela Gardner, five poems

Angela Gardner was born in Wales and now lives in Australia. She is the winner of the Bauhinia/Idiom 23 Prize for Poetry (2004) and the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Prize for Unpublished Poetry (2006). Her first book, Parts of Speech, was published by University of Queensland Press in 2007. Her latest book, Views of the Hudson, has just been published by Shearsman Press (2009). In 2007, she was awarded a Churchill Fellowship, and in 2008, an Australia Council for the Arts Literature residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Co. Monaghan in Ireland and an Arts Queensland Visual Arts & Crafts Strategy grant. She is a practicing visual artist with works in national and international public collections. Light-trap Press is the website of the artist's book publisher she is involved with, and with lots of material relevant to her also, including her homepage and the full text of Paradise and Inferno, a sequence on American invasion of Iraq, partially published in Parts of Speech. Foam:e is an excellent poetry ezine largely edited by Gardner, and published by Light-trap Press (every St David's Day!)

William Garvin

William Garvin's poetry has been featured in various poetry journals, both in the UK and the US, including Lamport Court, Indefinite Space, Moria, Parameter Magazine, Poetalk & The International Poetry Review.

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Arun Gaur, three poems

Arun Gaur now lives in Panchkula (Haryana, India). Before that he was a resident of Chandigarh for 30 years. He is a photographer, a free-lance journalist, a travelogue writer, a book-reviewer, and a teacher. For some time he taught at the Department of English, Mizoram University, Aizawl, where he was the Senior Reader. He has published many book-review articles and illustrated travelogue pieces in The Tribune. Although his doctoral thesis was on W.B. Yeats and C.G. Jung, he did not consider it yet worth publishing and chose instead to write and publish another critical book: I Stand Apart: Alienated Center in Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" (2002), which, according to Professor Ed Folsom, is "one of the most thorough and sustained readings of Song of Myself ever attempted." He has completed an anthology of poems, Mizoram-2004, based on thousands of photographs taken in and around Aizawl and is currently seeking a publisher for it. Some of these poems, along with the others, have appeared in the on-line as well as the print magazines/journals including Ariga, Sol Magazine, Poetry Magazine, Ygdrasil, Eclectica, 42opus, Orbis, Poetry Salzburg Review, 3rd Muse, and Boyne Berries.

John Gilmore, two excerpts from Head of a Man and Three Etudes

John Gilmore is a Canadian writer and editor living in Berlin. He has worked as a journalist, broadcaster, and teacher, and is the author of two books on jazz history. Swinging in Paradise: The Story of Jazz in Montreal will be republished in French translation this summer by Lux Éditeur. Who’s Who of Jazz in Montreal: Ragtime to 1970 is still in print after 20 years. Throat Songs and Sonatine are from a forthcoming poetic novel titled Head of a Man. Other excerpts have been published in Rampike (Canada). Three Etudes are whimsical studies in sound. John is currently working on a poetic novel about the four-thousand-year-old Cycladic figurines.

Harry Godwin, poem for P. Philpott, read at Xmasing the Line, 3/12/09

Harry Godwin is a Devon-based poet, who also runs The Arthur Shilling Press, Cleaves Journal and The Small Press Catalogue. He has published The Benholm Potato Growers (The Arthur Shilling Press, 2009), with other work available online at onedit, streetcakemagazine.com, The Red Ceilings, "Intercapillary", Readings and Spine.

Shahar Gold, two stories

Shahar Gold lives in Toronto, where he studies philosophy. He is a writer and collagist, writing short prose fiction (stories), which tend to explore the more unpleasant sides of our nature. Recently published in Ascent Aspirations.

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Laura Goldstein, Rust

Laura Goldstein has been published in MPRSND, Combo Magazine and XConnect, with poems coming out later this year in Combo, The Primordial Review and Xerolage. Her website, Broken Eggs, has her poetry on it.

Giles Goodland, The Brimston Worm

Giles Goodland writes in large blocks and sequences. His most recent books are Capital from Salt (2006) & A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001), a digest of the 20th century in 100 parts, one for each year; he has had an e-chapbook on Beard of Bees, A Bar. There is also recent work on Shearsman. The Brimston Worm is a recycle of obsolete word and syntax, with nods to Coleridge, Carroll, and the Beowulf poet. Please note that the now long-established division into "Fyttes" represents a corrupt scriptorial tradition, but we are retaining it for convenience.

Mark Goodwin

Mark Goodwin writes & speaks in various ways. His first full-length collection, Else, was published by Shearsman in 2008. A second volume with Shearsman, entitled Back of A Vast, is planned for 2010. Mark’s work will also appear in The Ground Aslant: Radical Landscape Poetry, edited by Harriet Tarlo (Shearsman 2010). An exquisite hand-made box-chapbook and audio CD, entitled Distance A Sudden will be produced by Brian Lewis of Longbarrow Press (winter 2010). He has a poem in Rupert Loydell's Troubles Swapped For Something Fresh (Salt 2009). Another full-length, entitled Shod, is due out with Nine Arches Press in late summer 2010 — and could be described as a version of The Gospel that focuses on shoes!

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Mark Goodwin & Nikki Clayton, Of Died

Nikki Clayton

Nikki Clayton works for Leicestershire's Open Museum, where she often works with a splendid herd of Leicestershire poets who like museum objects and working with people. She has been taking photographs compulsively for years. Her first published photograph, "Birch Leaf & Blue", forms the cover of Mark Goodwin’s first poetry collection, Else.

Paul A Green

Paul A Green has worked as a freelance writer/broadcaster in Canada, college lecturer in Devon, supply teacher in inner London, and used-book operative in Hay-on-Wye. Once he was Little Brother Saul on CBU-FM 105.7. Now he's teaching Media at the Royal National College for the Blind, Hereford. His writing has appeared in many different contexts from Poetics Journal to New Worlds. He has performed at venues ranging from the South Bank Centre to Sub-Voicive seances in upper rooms while his sound pieces have been disseminated in North America via audio mags like DNA and alternative radio stations like WMFU-FM. He has often performed with musicians, like the late-lamented Vincent Crane, and his work also includes collaborations with digital artist Jeremy Welsh. As the Quantum Brothers, they have devised videotapes, installations, and launched poetic probes into cyberspace. A new collaboration, A Beginner’s Guide to Radial City, will be available in both digital and print formats in 2010. A story from the sequence was recently published in Brand Magazine. Other recent or pending appearances include Café Irreal, Shadowtrain and Toxic Poetry and Sunfish.

Small press books include: Basement Mix (Galloping Dog); The Slow Ceremony (ReVerb) and The Slow Learning (ReVerb/IRS), with work in various anthologies: Contemporary Poetry of British Columbia (Sono Nis, Vancouver), Angels of Fire (Chatto) and Words We Call Home (University of British Columbia Press). A cross-section of work can be found at: QBSaul Hypertexts which links to his blog and podcast. Paul writes articles and reviews for Lawrence Russell's e-zone Culture Court, which also hosts audio and video clips of his work.

His radio drama includes: Ritual of the Stifling Air for BBC, The Dream Laboratory for CBC, The Mouthpiece for Resonance FM, and The Voice Collection, a play concerning electronic voice phenomena, for RTE National Radio in 2006. A sequence from his stage play The Terminal Poet (whose script is now on this site) was presented at the Courtyard Arts Centre in Hereford as part of its new writing programme while Babalon, a play about Crowleyan rocket scientist Jack Parsons was performed at RADA in London in 2005 to a packed house of warlocks. A novel, The Qliphoth, on related themes, was published by Libros Libertad in 2007 and he is now working on a sequel Beneath the Pleasure Zones. There are other works also on Great Works.

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The Terminal Poet: A Drama for Audio

Newtheatreworks.co.uk presented a sequence from The Terminal Poet at the Courtyard Arts Centre as part of its new writing programme on March 5, 2004. Naked Punch magazine will be publishing some of the text in a forthcoming issue on Technology & Nihilism — see their website at www.naked.punch.com for further details. Great Works includes audio, with .mp3 files of material used in the original production, some remixed since. These will work on QuickTime or Windows Media Player, but may need a little time to download on first opening the pages.

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Astral FM and three short texts

BROTHER 13was originally conceived for audio and recorded with music and soundscape by Lawrence Russell on www.culturecourt. It's one of the few productions we've actually done in the same physical space, when I was in Canada in 2006. Title is a reference to a Canadian guru/prophet, Brother Twelve who had an abode of love on Vancouver Island in the 1920s. But I was also thinking of the kind of messages channeled by contactees like George Adamski. Strange things have been seen in the woods of British Columbia. An audio version of Halo has appeared in the first edition of www.toxicpoetry.

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Gerard Greenway, three poems

Gerard Greenway was born in 1965. He lives in Oxford with his wife and son. He studied philosophy and literature at the Universities of Warwick and Southampton. He founded with his wife, in 1992, the scholarly journal Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities (Routledge) and in 1996 started an associated book series: Angelaki Humanities (Manchester University Press). He worked since university in academic publishing, but leaving this in 2006 he is now a tutor in philosophy and literature for various programmes at Oxford University. His poems have appeared in Tears in the Fence, Poetry Salzburg Review, Dream Catcher, Angelaki and Salt Magazine.

RG Gregory

poet playwright theatre-in-the-round director and actor
innovative english and drama teacher
inventor of instant theatre and the english block
founder of the language-arts company word and action (dorset)
and member of it for thirty years
writer of fiction and non-fiction
maker of poem-collages and poem-graphics
and a deep believer in the ordinary human spirit (OHS)

Greg's own website is the carefully erected cathedral of the ordinary human spirit.

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Hjalmar Gullberg, Månskensnatt (translated by Daniel Andersson, Moonlit Night)

Hjalmar Gullberg (born 30 May 1898 in Malmö, Skåne, died 19 July 1961 at Yddingesjön, Skåne; suicide) was a Swedish writer, poet and translator of Greek drama into Swedish. As a student at Lund University, Gullberg was the editor of the student magazine Lundagård. He was the manager of the Swedish Radio Theatre 1936-1950. In 1940 he was made a member of the Swedish Academy, and he also became a honorary doctor of philosophy at Lund University (1944). (Thank you, Wikipedia, here.)

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Chris Gutkind, Thinking

Chris Gutkind came here from Montreal in 1988 and works as a librarian. In 2006 Shearsman Books published Inside to Outside, and you can hear him on PoetCasting. He also has a delightful Outernet MySpace presence.

Catherine Hales, two poems

Catherine Hales grew up near the Thames between Windsor and Staines, did a degree in Comparative Literature at the University of East Anglia, and, after a disastrous try at teaching German, moved to Stuttgart and now lives in Berlin, where she supports her poetry habit by working as a freelance translator. Her poetry and translations of contemporary German poets have been published in several magazines, in print and online, most recently Tears in the Fence (No. 48), Shearsman 73/74, Shadow Train, Gists & Piths, Litter, No Man's Land and Poetry Salzburg Review (No. 14). Work is forthcoming in Shearsman (poetry and translations), Poetry Salzburg Review, Atlanta Review, Chicago Review and LIT Magazine (translations). Her pamphlet out of mind came out in 2006 and she is working on her first collection and a book of translations of Norbert Hummelt. There is a statement of her poetics on Gists & Piths.

John Hall, Changing lines

John Hall was born in 1945 in the country since named Zambia. He lives in Devon and has worked for many years at Dartington College of Arts, where he was one of the founders of 'performance writing' and where he is now part-time.

else here: Selected Poems was published by etruscan books in 1999. Much of his recent work has taken the form of framed visual poems: an exhibition (Through the Gap) is still up at www.shearsman.com and a 15-poem set appeared as the centrespread of PQR (Poetry Quarterly Review) 20. Recent critical writing has engaged with questions about reading. An example can be found in The Gig 15; another (Time-play-space: playing up the visual in writing is being included in Pores 3, and another on illegibility in the forthcoming On the Page issue of Performance Research Journal. He is one of the people interviewed by Lawrence Upton for the Remembering Alaric Sumner feature in Issue 8 of Masthead.

Tom Hamilton, five poems

Tom Hamilton is an Irish Traveler. He currently lives with the clan known as the Mississippi Travelers, which is tantamount to a race of gypsies. He says: "Not all 'Travellers' are the con men and scam artists that they have been portrayed as in the American media." His work has appeared in over one hundred publications around the world including Bathtub Gin, The Rockford Review and the Old Crow Review among many others. He has had two poetry chapbooks published: The Rain Draw Bridge from Alpha Beat Press and The Last Days of my Teeth from Budget Press. Along with his wife Mary Theresa and their two small daughters, Tiffany and Hope Ann, he lives in Memphis TN. U.S.A.

Philip Hammial, six poems

Philip Hammial has had twenty collections of poetry published, two of which – Bread in 2001 & In the Year of Our Lord Slaughter's Children in 2004 – were short-listed for the Kenneth Slessor Prize (a NSW Premier's Award). He is also a sculptor and the director of The Australian Collection of Outsider Art. He has recently had poems accepted for Fulcrum & Intercapillary Space.

Tom Harding, six poems

Tom Harding is twenty six years old and live in Northampton. He has a site full of his poems and drawings, tomarianne. He has poems on nth position, identity theory and Unlikely 2.0.

Chris Hardy

Chris Hardy's poems have been published in numerous magazines and websites – The Rialto, Poetry Review, The North, Tears in the Fence, Acumen, poetrypf.co.uk etc. Some have won prizes eg in the National Poetry Society's Competition. A poem is in the 2009 Forward Prize Anthology. His collection A Moment Of Attention was published in 2008 by Original Plus. He is also a musician: the CD Health To Your Hands is available from www.cdbaby.com. He plays in the trio LiTTLe MACHiNe performing our settings of well known poems, audible at myspace.com/littlemachineuk.

Seven Poems

About these poems: the inn in Dripping Eves is in Radnor; Wild Horses is a track by the Rolling Stones; Snakehips was a pub singer; the line about 'backs bending as if they got no bone' in On The Beach is a common phrase in blues songs eg in Rock Me Mama by Muddy Waters.

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Derek Harper, Three Texts

Derek Harper lives in Eltham, South London, and travels a lot. He has written on travel and African music, the latter for Rhythm Music (now called Global Rhythm).

Colin Harris, six poems

Colin Harris is a 30 year old Wirral-based poet and short story writer, and has had work published in the magazines Shadowtrain and Neon Highway, among others. Forthcoming work includes poetry in Orbis 145 (special 'Liverpool, Capital of Culture' issue), and a piece of short fiction in Flash.

Dylan Harris, Two Poems

Dylan Harris is a software engineer, living in Kettering. He has an interesting and very varied personal website: arts and ego.

Jeff Harrison, Also Without A Preface

Jeff Harrison also has poems on moria, BlazeVox (Apollo's Bastards e-book), VeRT, Side Reality, M.A.G., and is forthcoming in A Chide's Alphabet, Nerve Lantern, and Word for Word.

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Thomas Harrisson, Review of Adriano Bulla, Ybo' and Other Lies

Adriano Bulla was born in Italy in 1981, after a BA Hons in literature, he moved to London to study at post graduate level. He has published extensively in magazines and newspapers, including in The Guardian. Former lecturer, he is now a secondary teacher of English.

James Harvey, four poems

James Harvey studied Biology, mainly Ecology, at university. After leaving university, he took up poetry full time. He has had poems in Brittle Star magazine, Poetry Salzburg Review, Openned, In the Company of Poets anthology and The Morning Star.

Ralph Hawkins, The Poems of Abakan Tartar

Ralph Hawkins has been writing poetry since the late 1970s when he was one of a number of radical poets gathered at the University of Essex. He now lives on the Essex coast at Brightlingsea. Of many publications the more substantial are Tell Me No More and Tell Me (Grosseteste, 1981), At Last Away (Galloping Dog Press, 1988), The Coiling Dragon / The Scarlet Bird / The White Tiger / A Blue & Misted Shroud (Equipage, 2000), The MOON, The Chief Hairdresser (highlights) (Shearsman, 2004) and Gone to Marzipan (Shearsman, 2009).

Calum Hazell, even the milk

Calum Hazell's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Jungftak: a journal for prose-poetry, Lunar Poetry and Datableed. In February 2016 he exhibited visual work at St. John's College, University of Oxford, as part of a project on Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic. He regularly reads at Writers Forum Workshop — New Series and is a member of the Centre for Contemporary Poetry (Contempo) research group. He can be contacted via calumhazell2009@live.co.uk.

Scott Helmes, two poems

In 1972, Scott Helmes began writing experimental/mathematical/concrete poetry and pursuing mail art activities and artistic printmaking/drawings. Since then work has been published, exhibited, anthologized, collected and blogged locally, nationally and internationally. Recent work in Edgz, Poetry, Unarmed and Ross Priddle’s web page bentspoon. Forthcoming are work in Word for Word and in print ImageProcessLiterature. There is a large sequence of early work on Light and Dust. His writing archive from 1972 to 1997 is in the Avant Writing Collection of The Ohio State Libraries. Currently he resides in St. Paul, MN and works professionally as an architect in Minneapolis.

Maximilian Hildebrand, Kylix Poems + four poems

Maximilian Hildebrand has completed an MA in creative writing at Royal Holloway, with Andrew Motion and Jo Shapcott, with a selection of poems printed in their anthology, Bedford Sq: v. 4 (John Murray, 2010), and a poem printed in the Guardian, Lekythos. He will also be published in the anthology Day of Roses, coming from the Day of Roses readings in Shoreditch. He has also published an early collection, What happened to my socks?

Crag Hill, four poems from 7 x 7

These poems are from a "day book" series tentatively titled "7 x 7," drawing from seven different modes of writing. Some of the other fifty-two poems in this series have appeared in Big Bridge, Whitewall, Generator, Gangway, xStream, Aught, Eratio, Sidereality, Poets' Corner, ZYX, Shampoo, and M.A.G.

Crag Hill writes and teaches in Moscow, Idaho. Publisher/editor of Score, a magazine focusing on concrete visual poetry for over twenty years, Hill will start putting out books under the imprint Manypenny Press. For more of his work, check out his very busy blog, Crag Hill's poetry scorecard: "contemporary poetries, visual, verbal & visual/verbal, with especial focus on small press books, magazines, and on websites of avant poetries". Writer of numerous chapbooks and/or other print interventions, including Dict (Xexoxial Endarchy), Another Switch (Norton Coker Press), and Yes James, Yes Joyce (Loose Gravel Press), he has been editoir of Score Magazine, a publication seeking the edges of writing. He co-edited with Bob Grumman Writing To Be Seen (Light & Dust Books, 2001), the first major anthology of visual poetry in 30 years. There is an interesting interview with Crag on exchangevalues.

Jeff Hilson, 5 stretchers

These 5 poems are part of the second volume of a long sequence, the first volume of which, stretchers 1-12, was published in January 2001 by Writers Forum. Reality Street is publishing the completed text in 2006. Jeff Hilson's previous publications include A Grasses Primer (Form Books, 2000) & The As (Canary Woof Press, 2000). He is editor of Canary Woof Press, and co-organiser of Crossing the Line reading series with Sean Bonney and David Miller.

Tammy Ho, seven poems

Tammy Ho Lai-ming, aka Sighming, is a Hong Kong-born and -based writer. She is the editor of HKU Writing: An Anthology (March, 2006), a co-editor of Word Salad Poetry Magazine and a co-founder of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal . Visit Tammy's homepage for more details.

Nicholas Hogg, Three Poems

Nicholas Hogg was born in Leicester in 1974, and has been writing poetry and fiction for the last five years, living and working abroad. He has had poems published in various journals, and was shortlisted for the 2002 Eric Gregory Award. If you would like to see more work, then please visit his elegant site www.nicholashogg.com, which includes texts and recordings of poems, and portions of a novel, or you may contact him at nicholasahogg@yahoo.com.

Paul Holman

These texts are earlier versions of material published since in book form. Paul Holman's most recent books are Tara Morgana (Scarlet Imprint, 2014), which incorporates almost all of THE MEMORY OF THE DRIFT Book Five : TARA MORGANA, and much of THE MEMORY OF THE DRIFT Book Six: A NEW WALKING AGE, and The Memory of the Drift – Books I-IV (Shearsman, 2007), which combines a revised text of The Memory of the Drift (Invisible Books, 2001), with three sequences all on Great Works: In the Common Era, Dog Mercury and Vicinal. Paul is also the author of The Fabulist: selected poems 1984-1991 (Leaves/Scales, 1991) and was co-editor of Invisible Books in the 1990s (now engaged in mainly online bookselling). There is also a sequence Magnetic Sword published on the ezine Silver Star: a Journal of New Magick, and an uncollected sequence on Great Works. There is a response to his writing by Peter Philpott on Geometer.

A sequence of poems

This sequence dates fromn 1991-1992, and has not been collected by the author.

THE MEMORY OF THE DRIFT Book Two: In the Common Era

This is a revised version of a sequence earlier published on the site, made as part of an ongoing project for the Field Study group from 1999-2002. It is countered by:

THE MEMORY OF THE DRIFT Book Three: Dog Mercury

THE MEMORY OF THE DRIFT Book Four: Vicinal

THE MEMORY OF THE DRIFT Book Five: TARA MORGANA

THE MEMORY OF THE DRIFT Book Six: A NEW WALKING AGE

Colin Honnor, three poems

Colin Honnor, based in the English Cotswolds, is a widely published poet with several published collections. A translator of European poets such as Montale and a lecturer, critic, writer and publisher of European independent press poetry and literature, His work has recently been featured on the Web in Arabesques Review and The Dublin Quarterly and on paper in Jeremy Hilton's Fire.

Alex Houen, two poems

Alex Houen is co-editor of the online poetry journal Blackbox Manifold. He has placed poems in a range of magazines including PN Review, Shadowtrain, nthposition, and Snorkel (Faculty of English, University of Cambridge).

Simon Howard, two sequences

Simon Howard was born in Fulham in 1960 & educated at University College London. He lived for a time in the Czech Republic; he now lives outside London but near its most famous river. He has published poems also in The Red Ceilings, Spine Writers and Venereal Kittens, and a chapbook Zooaxeimplode from the Arthur Shilling Press. Forthcoming were poems from Shadowtrain, Blackbox Manifold, Freaklung, and a book, Numbers, from The Knives Forks and Spoons press. His blog is walkingintheceiling, and he edits Department with Richard Barrett.

Sam Howell, five poems

Sam Howell is a Creative Writing and English student at London South Bank University (LSBU) in London and so lives in London currently. He grew up in Stroud, Gloucestershire, and looks forward to moving back there when the opportunity arises. He has had previous publications in South Bank Poetry and Reflections. He is currently working on a collection of sonnets entitled Finding Home.

Peter Hughes, Oystercatcher

Peter Hughes is a poet and painter whose first publication was The Interior Designer's Late Morning from The Many Press in 1983. In that year he moved to Italy where he wrote, translated and taught until 1991. Other publications include Bar Magenta (with Simon Marsh) and The Metro Poems, both from The Many Press; Psyche in the Gargano and Paul Klee's Diary, both from Equipage; Odes on St. Cecilia's Day from Poetical Histories, and Keith Tippet Plays Tonight from Maquette. Blueroads: Selected Poems was published by Salt in 2003. His poems and paintings have popped up in various magazines, reviews, exhibitions and readings in the UK, North America and Italy. Peter can be contacted at peterhughescam@hotmail.com.

Peter Hughes & Simon Marsh, Pistol Tree Poems

Pistol Tree Poems is an epistolary sequence between Peter Hughes and Simon Marsh, from various locations, mainly in the UK and Italy (Simon Marsh lives in Northern Italy). Bar Magenta (The Many Press, 1988) contains poems by both of them. There are some formal constraints you will be able to observe in Pistol Tree Poems. The complete work was published by Shearsman in 2011.

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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).

Norbert Hummelt, trans Catherine Hales, three poems

Norbert Hummelt was born in Neuss in 1962 and lives in Berlin. He has received many awards for his poetry including the Rolf Dieter Brinkmann Prize, the Mondseer Poetry Prize and the New York Stipendium of the German Literature Fund. His most recent books of poetry, all from Luchterhand, are Zeichen im Schnee (Signs in the Snow) 2001, Stille Quellen (Silent Springs) 2004 and Totentanz (Dance of Death) 2007. He has taught at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and until 2007 was editor of the Lyrik 2000 edition series. He has co-translated and edited a new edition of the poetry of W.B. Yeats and translated T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets and, most recently, a new version of The Waste Land into German.

Tina Hyett

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

Seven Songs from The Autumn Journals

Poems from In the Dirt

Innocenza Istarte

Innocenza has lived in London most of her life, where she continues to live with her partner and beautiful nine year old son, Jacob. She has also lived in Colombia. She has recently had poems published in the following magazines and poetry sites: Anon, Harlequin, Linkway, Toad in Mud, Sentinel, Kritya and Erbacce.

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ten poems from For You

Aishwarya Iyer, Five Poems

Aishwarya Iyer was born in 1983, and graduated in English Literature from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. She has been published online in Sweet magazine and Eclectica magazine.

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 whose work includes making objects, performance, installation, books on paper, and books in electronic form, and is held in collections in Britain and internationally. She also runs Colebrooke Publications. Think of books as sculptures made of language and discourse. Think of multimedia projects that process text in motion. Her constructions give a breath-taking multi dimensional spin to both scientific & literary language, even cookery books. Reordering is a project on David Berridge's superb MORE MILK YVETTE: A JOURNAL OF THE BROKEN SCREEN blog.

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 use text in a visual way to document the ethical, economic, political and philosophical polemics associated with mapping the human genome, and their changes through time.

The Zigzag Path

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

Song of the Data Stream: A brief guide to the website

Great Works now hosts this special guide to navigating the complex text and image combination Cycle from Song of the Data Stream.

Michael Jacobson, from Action Figures

Michael Jacobson is a writer and artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA. He is a writer of wordless books. His first book is The Giant's Fence, available on lulu.com. His second book is Action Figures, and his third book is A Headhunter's Tale. He has had material published in Asemic Magazine, dANDelion, and a few online places. He is currently at work on a new book inspired by Mayan Codices. Those unfamiiar with asemic writing might enjoy an interview he conducted with Tim Gaze, editor of Asemic writing, found on a variety of sites, including The CommonLine Project. The full text of Action Figures is available as pdfs on Tim Gaze's exciting and asemic Avance Publishing website, or from Literate Machine, with an introduction by Tim Gaze. You might enjoy Michael's MySpace presence, or his blog, The New Post-literate: A Gallery Of Asemic Writing.

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.

T A James, two stories

T A James lives in Bedfordshire, and has had several poems printed by small presses. She Sold my first story (sci fi) to an online webzine Alienskin, a couple of articles for University chapbook, various bits & pieces scattered online. She writes across several genres : poetry, scripts, favour fantasy and magic realism for short stories written, and prose poetics that she like to dabble with. T A James has completed a Creative Writing degree at the University of Bedfordshire.

Johannes Jansen, trans Amos Weisz, Ditch of fragments/Registrations II

Johannes Jansen first trained as an engraver and then studied advertising art. His very short prose texts have a somnambulant quality and are influenced by Georg Trakl and Wolfgang Borchert. Perception and reflection are inseparable in these works. In 1996, Jansen was awarded the Carinthia Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition for Dickicht.Anpassung. In 1997, he received the Schiller Foundation award. Jansen's latest works are atem holen, immerhin (2007, Karin Kramer Verlag), Nicht hin..s.eh.en, Sequenzen (2007, Satyr Verlag) and im keinland is schönerland stumm (kookbooks 2007) [Text from poesiefestival.]

Boris Jardine, five poems

Boris Jardine lives and studies in Cambridge. Based in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, he works on the history of anthropology, scientific architecture, and the various meeting points of scientific and poetic language (all focused on the 1930s). He is the poetry editor of the New Cambridge Review, which launches in 2009. Boris has poems published on nth position.

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Tom Jenks, six poems

Tom Jenks is the editor of Manchester-based Parameter Magazine. Recent poems in BlazeVox. Others due to appear in various places, including Stand.

Antony John, three poems

London-based Antony John assembles poems from lines cut from newspapers. In his poems, the length of individual lines is determined by the width of the newspaper column. These are his first poems to appear online. His work has featured in the anthologies Veer Off and Veer Away (both published by Veer) and Water Babies (Panurge New Fiction), and in the magazines Lamport Court, Keystone, Outlaw and Hot Tin Roof. His first book of poems will be published by Veer in 2009.

Michael Lee Johnson poems

Michael Lee Johnson is a poet, and freelance writer. He is self-employed in advertising, and selling custom promotional products. He is the author of The Lost American: From Exile to Freedom. He has also published two chapbooks of poetry. He is also nominated for the James B. Baker Award in poetry, Sam's Dot Publishing. He is a contributor in the Silver Boomers poetry anthology about aging baby boomers, by Silver Boomer Books. Michael Lee Johnson presently resides in Itasca, Illinois, United States. He lived in Canada during the Vietnam era and will be published as a contributor poet in the anthology Crossing Lines: Poets Who Came to Canada in the Vietnam War Era, publication scheduled for early 2008. He has been published in USA, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Scotland, Turkey, Fuji, Nigeria, Algeria, Africa, India, United Kingdom, Republic of Sierra Leone, Thailand, Kuala Lumpur, and Malaysia.

Visit his website at: http://poetryman.mysite.com/. He is now the publisher, editor of Poetic Legacy, Birds By My Window: Willow Tree Poems and A Tender Touch and A Shade of Blue. All publications are now open for submissions, looking for poetry, free verse and metric (but not contrived form), very small flash fiction, and small non-fiction articles that reflect a sincere cause or issue.

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.

Norman Jope, six texts

Norman Jope was born in Plymouth, where he lives again after lengthy spells in other locations (most recently Swindon, Bristol and Budapest) and works, as an administrator, at University College Plymouth St Mark & St John. His collection For The Wedding-Guest was published by Stride, and his poetry has appeared in many magazines, webzines and anthologies; a book-length sequence, The Book of Bells and Candles, is due out shortly from Waterloo Press, and he is currently editing a critical companion to the work of Richard Burns for Salt. Co-editor with Ian Robinson of the excellent anthology In the Presence of Sharks: New poetry from Plymouth (Phlebas, 2006).

Andrew Jordan

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. His most recent book is Ha Ha (Shearsman, 2007).

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.

Inside Mary Millington

The Mermiad

Vair of Four Tinctures

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, Free Verse and 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 Tim Keane personal website.

Stuart Kenyon, Silent Return

Stuart Kenyon has recently finished a degree in English and Creative Writing at Edge Hill University.

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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.

Kenny Knight, six poems from The Honicknowle Book of the Dead

The Honicknowle Book of the Dead is published by Shearsman in 2009. Kenny Knight's work has been anthologised in In the Presence of Sharks — New Poetry from Plymouth (Phlebas Press), edited by Norman Jope and Ian Robinson. His work has appeared in Fire, Smith's Knoll, The Rialto, Tears in the Fence and Terrible Work. He works in a supermarket.

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

Individual entries on RICHARD KOSTELANETZ 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. Living in New York, where he was born, he survives unemployed and thus overworked. And he has a Richard Kostelanetz website .

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Bobby Larsson, Limerick Swing —

Bobby Larsson was born in Skåne, Sweden, in 1980. He studied creative writing at Skurup. His poetry, in English and Swedish, has been published in or is forthcoming from Orbis, Ordkonst, Aireings Poetry Magazine, The Argotist Online, Weirdyear, The Journal, Angelic Dynamo: Poetry and Democracy, D.A.S., Eleutheria – The Scottish Poetry Review, The Glasgow Review, Osprey Journal, Poetry Monthly, Sugar Mule, Zendo and elsewhere. He has recently translated a cycle of poems by the award-winning Swedish poet Ann Jäderlund. He currently lives in Helsingborg, and is working on a novel for children. Bobby Larsson blogs as bobby – this blog is dedicated to the Human Spirit and all Mammals.

Charles Jason Lee, six poems

Charles Jason Lee is the author of Pervasive Perversions — child sexual abuse and media/culture (Free Association Books: London, 2005) and The Metaphysics of Mass Art — Cultural Ontology, plus the poetry collections Lost Passports, Polaroid Noise, God's Potato Peeler, and The Day Elvis Died. He has taught at St Martin's College, and the universities of Essex, Hertfordshire, Central Lancashire, and East London.

Ross Leese, two poems

Ross Leese lives in the North of England and is approaching his thirties, somewhat uncomfortably. He's hoping that when the revolution finally happens, somebody might tell him about it. Or at least point him in the right direction. He's thinking East. Or maybe West. He has other poems online at Shoots And Vines, Word Riot, Poetry Cemetery and Unlikely 2.0, among other places.

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

Tom Lowenstein's Ultimate Americans: Point Hope, Alaska 1826-1909 (a history of contact between north Alaskan Inupiat and white men) will be published by the University of Alaska Press in October 2008. He has published two other 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)His last book of poems was Ancestors and Species (Shearsman 2005). In May 2009, Shearsman will publish a new book of poetry, Conversation with Murasaki. Sequences to be included in this have appeared, or are forthcoming in The London Review of Books, The Poetry Review, Shearsman, Fulcrum and Tears in the Fence.

Inter-Rogation

Inter-Rogation comes from a long narrative poem about Tikigaq, Alaska, where Tom Lowenstein worked between 1973 and 1989. Other parts of the narrative poem have appeared in: London Review of Books, Shearsman, Skanky Possum (Austin, Texas) and First Intensity (Lawrence, Kansas).

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John Lowther, from Stoppages

John Lowther is part of the APG (Atlanta Poets Group), author of chaps, a limited edition book and anthologized in ANOTHER SOUTH from the U of Alabama Press. Though he does write poetry, more often he improvizes it live or collaborates with the APG. John also writes about poetry and art and curates a number of different shows/series at Eyedrum in Atlanta. He edits a small press called 3rdness and is a contributing editor to THE NAMELESS press, Spaltung Magazine and a soon to launch sound poetry webzine. He also does performance art, visual art in various mediums and is working on a juicy pulpy horror novel with vampires! Presently John is trying to learn German and hopes to move to Berlin by the year 2010.

about those poems called Stoppages... I am and have been for many years deeply into Duchamp. Loosely thinking of his Three Standard Stoppages I was one day reading some academic article about his work and found my eye making a poem out of the words that ran down the right margin of a full justified paragraph and it occurred to me that I was using the places where the lines found stoppage. The series took off from there. Methodologically it works like this; every poem is derived from a single paragraph in a scholarly text about Duchamp. I must take the word that is at the end of each line (I allowed an exception, I could ignore proper names that I didn't find a use for), I could also have as many words in sequence going toward the left side of the page as found in the original, but I could not skip any of them. Punctuation had to be kept. I also allowed myself the option of using or not using the final line of a paragraph (because it didn't usually reach the right margin or stoppage). Now, having typed all these out onto a page I could resequence the lines and removes words from the left end of the line, but that was all I could do. Their right justified rendering as poems thus echoes their original form. I found this rather strict set of limits netted me some relatively tight & jazzy sounding little poems. There are around 70 extant poems in this series, something like 20-30 others have gone missing. Other Stoppages have appeared in Kenning, Shampoo and Word For/Word.

Rupert Loydell

Rupert Loydell is Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at University College Falmouth, and the editor of Stride and With magazines. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including the recent Boombox from Shearsman (2009) and The Fantasy Kid from Salt (2010). A collaboration with Peter Gillies, A Music Box of Snakes, is out and about from Knives, Forks & Spoons Press, 2010. He edited From Hepworth's Garden Out: poems about painters and St. Ives for Shearsman (2010), and Troubles Swapped for Something Fresh, an anthology of manifestos and unmanifestos, for Salt (2009). He lives in a creekside village with his family and far too many CDs and books. In his spare time he is hyperactive. But to very good effect!

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Rupert Loydell & Robert Sheppard, from Risk Assessment

Peter Dent & Rupert M Loydell, Overgrown Umbrellas

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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.

Austin McCarron, seven poems

Austin McCarron is from New Zealand and has lived in London for many years. His work has appeared in numerous magazines in the UK, eg The Ugly Tree, Fire, Lamport Court, Curlew and Awen, and the anthology Van Gogh's Ear 7: The Supernatural Edition (French Connection Press, 2010).

Lesley McKenna, Bodyscapes

Lesley McKenna has a first class honours degree in Creative Writing and a Masters by Research (Creative Writing), both from the University of Bedfordshire, where she now teaches Creative Writing at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Bodyscapes is her first published poem. She is currently working on a fantasy novel for young adults.

James Mc Laughlin, seven poems

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.

Prasenjit Maiti, Poems

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

Richard Makin

Richard Makin is a London-born & based writer of fiction & a visual artist, now resident in St Leonards, East Sussex. 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, & various locations in Walthamstow. Richard can be contacted at terraincognita0@hotmail.com.

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Under Luke Shades

Makin, back in December 1992, lived in the shadow of the obelisk of St Luke's Old Street. 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 Process

A prose sequence, with photographs by Richard, published monthly 2004–2006.

eight poems from the series Rift Designs

More of these poems may be found on Stride and in ed Jeff Hilson, The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street, 2008).

St Leonards

The lengthy prose text published on Great Works in serial fashion as it was written, is now published with revised text by Reality Street as Dwelling, and is therefore no longer available on this site.

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Sophie Mayer, three poems

Sophie Mayer is the author of Her Various Scalpels (Shearsman, 2009), The Private Parts of Girls (Salt, 2011) and The Cinema of Sally Potter: A Politics of Light (Wallflower, 2009). She currently teaches creative writing at King's College, London, writes about film for Sight & Sound, and is involved with the literary magazines Hand+Star and Chroma: A Queer Literary Journal. Her website is Sophie Mayer, and she blogs to review Delirium's Library. She was interviewed recently on For Books' Sake: Literature by and for independent women.

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.

Anthony Mellors, from Bent our of Shape

Anthony Mellors is the editor of fragmente: a magazine of contemporary poetics. His Late Modernist Poetics from Pound to Prynne (Manchester University Press) has just come out in a new paperback edition. Readings this year include Xing the Line and the Hay Jamboree. He has been described by Andrew Duncan as 'an awkward person'.

Mendoza, poems

Mendoza is a shoe gazing/navel gazing, introverted housebound recluse, self-obsessed pretend poet with OCD and predisposition to pervasive depression /slash/ bouts of melancholia. He also likes slugs.

David Menzies, Bank Holiday

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

Mary Michaels, three prose poems

Mary Michaels lives in Stoke Newington, North London. She has been published in magazines, anthologies and pamphlets since the 1970s. Her most recent books are Assassins (Sea Cow Press, 2006), My Life in Films (The Other Press, 2006 — reviewed by Gavin Selerie in How2) and Caret Mark (Hearing Eye, 2008), and Mary was included in the anthology Desperado Poetry — A Selection of Contemporary British Verse (ed. Lidia Vianu, Bucharest University Press, 2004 — with an interview by Lidia Vianu of Mary Michaels online). Mary has a page on poetry pf. There are texts online at nth position, Staple, How2 and Shearsman.

Stephen C Middleton, six poems

Stephen C Middleton's most recent books are Worlds of Pain / Shades of Grace (University of Salzburg, 1996) and A Brave Light (Stride, 1999). He has had wide publications of poems and short stories, and of jazz reviews. Stephen co-programmed, presented, and participated in Honey & Locusts (poetry, music, & spirituality), featuring Evan Parker, Sarah Law, Brian Louis Pearce, Tom Chant, etc., in a series of events in Bank and Southwark, London, 2001. In 2004 he had residencies at Jam by the Lock (Lock 17 / Dingwalls), a monthly all day arts festival in Camden London, Hip Heaven (poetry, comedy, storytelling, and jazz) in Deptford, London, and The Drop In (hip hop, poetry, comedy, and jazz) at various venues in the London area. In 2006 he performed stand up, storytelling, poetry & with a jazz trio at Twisted Lounge in London. In 2007 he took part in the Poetry on the Lake annual celebration in north Italy, and in 2006 one of Stephen's poems was set by saxophonist/flautist/composer Theo Travis for the CD A Place In The Queue. He is currently working on a series of projects (poetry and prose, with live and visual elements) relating to jazz, blues, politics, outsider (or folk) art, mountain environments, and long-term illness. Kater Murr's press has published Breathing Life into Jazz / Whispers Across a Mouthpiece.

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 Pulvis et Umbra 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.

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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.

John Muckle

Thomas Mulhall

Thomas Mulhall has had poems published in a wide range of Irish and British poetry magazines, including Shop, Crannog, Black Mountain Review, Frogmore Papers, Monkey Kettle, New Writer, Parameter, Carillon, Brittle Star, New cauldron, Linkway, Aireings and other magazines. He lives and works in Dublin.

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nine poems

Christopher Mulrooney, poems

Christopher Mulrooney has had poems and translations in The Delinquent, Vanitas, Guernica, echolocation and fourW, and publications include Come on with the rain (Phony Lid Pubs), singing for pennies on the streets (Budget Press), apostrophe (Los), notebook and sheaves. 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, Broadcast, Vexed Texts, Ut, Criteria (critical comments with illustrations), McCloud (devoted to the TV show), 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.

Chris Nelson

Dean Nicholson, poems

Dean Nicholson (also known as Dejan Nikolic or Dionysius) is the President of Literary-Philosophical Society "Philokalia", a member of the Council of the Magazine Beauteous Serbia, theologian, philosopher, poet, screenplay writer. He has published these books of poems: The Young Princes Education Manual, The Archaic Dandy and Blondogenet; two Theology-Philosophical Tractates: Creatioexnihilo-clasts and Creatioexnihilo-admirers and War and Peace and War and Peace and numerous studies, reviews, essays and articles, e.g. Leon Shestov and the Third Dimension of Thinking – Kainos Gnoseology Test, The Joyful Sorrow of Byzantinism Illuminates Europe, Desert as Desert, The Short History of the Wiseman from Koeningsberg – Bellum Omnium contra Omnes, The Manifest of Philokalia, The Noesthetical Letter, The Secret of the Antinomical Omnigirl, etc. He is currently working on the study of the notion of Eternal Recurrence of the Same by Nietzsche, in light of comprehension of Saint Grigory of Nisa's Apokatastasis. Dean Nicholson has also had poetry published on Kritya, and The Roundtable Review.

Andrew Nightingale

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. Andrew Nightingale has a page on poetrypf, which provides links to other online work. He also runs the online and print magazine liminal pleasures.

Architectonics

Four Poems

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.

Alistair Noon, poems

Alistair Noon lives in Berlin. Poems, translations, and his reviews of Gael Turnbull, Charles Reznikoff and others are online at Litter. Other online publications can be accessed via his Alistair Noon MySpace site.

Sam Oborne, from a novel

Sam Oborne grew up in the coastal town of Herne Bay but has recently moved to London and got married. He is completing an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Kent and lives in Putney with his wife. He has pieces on Litrofiction and nth position.

William Orr, Two Poems

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Daniele Pantano, Translation from the German of Seventy Eight Early Notes for a Biography of an Unknown Swiss Poet

Daniele Pantano is a Swiss poet, translator, critic, and editor born of Sicilian and German parentage in Langenthal (Canton of Berne). His individual poems, essays, and reviews, as well as his translations from the German by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Georg Trakl and Robert Walser, have appeared or are forthcoming in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies, including Absinthe: New European Writing, The Baltimore Review, The Cortland Review, Gradiva: International Journal of Italian Poetry, Guernica Magazine, Italian Americana, Jacket, The Mailer Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Versal, POETENLADEN – neue Literatur im Netz, Poet's Corner – Fieralingue, The Other Voices International Project, Arch Literary Journal, White Whale Review and 32 Poems Magazine. Pantano's most recent works include In an Abandoned Room: Selected Poems by Georg Trakl (Erbacce Press, 2008), The Possible Is Monstrous: Selected Poems by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and The Oldest Hands in the World (both from Black Lawrence Press/Dzanc Books, 2010). His forthcoming books include Oppressive Light: Selected Poems by Robert Walser and The Collected Works of Georg Trakl, both from Black Lawrence Press/Dzanc Books, as well as Mass Graves (XIX–XXII) (The Knives Forks & Spoons Press). Pantano has taught at the University of South Florida and served as the Visiting Poet-in-Residence at Florida Southern College. He divides his time between Switzerland, the United States, and England, where he's Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader for Creative Writing at Edge Hill University. His website is daniele pantano.ch

Richard Parker, QS

Richard Parker has recently submitted a Ph.D. thesis on Louis Zukofsky and Ezra Pound to the University of Sussex. Poems by him are available online at Signals and Onedit, and on paper in Glitch, Wolf and Brand. He is the editor and printer of Crater magazine, is currently printing issues 2,3 and 4 and he is the convener of the London Cantos Reading Group and the 2011 Ezra Pound International Conference in London. Meanwhile, he has just finished a sequence of 122 poems on California and is writing on Mark Twain.

Alasdair Paterson

Alasdair Paterson lives in Exeter and is a retired university librarian. He returned to writing poetry in 2007 after a 20 year gap: earlier collections included The Floating World from Pig Press and Brief Lives from Oasis. The collection On the governing of empires is forthcoming from Shearsman Books in Spring 2010. Noctivagator is a medieval term for a night-walker — and by extension someone up to no good. Some more from the same sequence were in Shadowtrain.

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from On the Governing of Empires

Chris Paul, three poems

Chris is from South Wales but has English and Irish roots. He studied Performance Writing at Dartington College, and after lived 5 years in London. He was a regular at the Writers Forum workshop throughout this time and also a particpant in the collaborative project London Under Construction. He lived in South America for two years too. His book Mantras For the City From The City is published by Writers Forum. His sequence Truth Serum vs Erroneous Shit a Faultline Encyclopedia in 27 Parts Laughter Magic Electricity the Rational Hysteria of a Mass Mind Everything of Importance And. . . was published in Bad Press Eyes Monthly. His work has also featured on Onedit, Skald Magazine, And Magazine, and the radical translation review Reception. He authored some internet translation engine inspired adaptions of Joyce which somehow found their way to the Guardian Unltd website. His criticism is featured on the Birkbeck Readings website.

Peter Philpott

For further information and even pictures, see my homepage, Peter Philpott, or Facebook.

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.

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 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. The poems were written as a response to the recognition of my father's dementia, which led to his death

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.

In the Dirt of the Post-Lyric: A Collaborative Cycle by Robert Blake, Connie Beauchamp, Gerri Dixon, Simon Gregory, Mark Hall, Erwin Hass, Tina Hyett, Emma Liukunas, Mikaela Moriarty, Peter Philpott, Bradley Tabor & Spencer Termott.

This is a sequence of poems written from the Winter Solstice 2006 through to Twelfth Night 2008, and by a variety of persons. The complete text is hosted on Calaméo

Ian Pople, six poems

Ian's second collection, An Occasional Lean-to, was published by Arc in 2005, and he has poems forthcoming in Poetry Ireland Review, and Warwick Review. His first collection, The Glass Enclosure (Arc, 1996), won a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was also short-listed for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1997.

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.

James Price

In the 1990s I was sitting with a person whose opinion I valued. I showed her some poetry and she said it reminded her of Mervyn Peake. I felt discombobulated and thought of the comment. I continued to work on the structure, deciding to have lessons. The present structure is the result of six months of lessons with poet Laurence Scott and I still felt an outsider at his 'round table'. However I am on my third local anthology apart from this site. My work is Imagist and follows a modernist line with a soupçon of the isolated.

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four poems and a drawing

Caleb Puckett, two poems

Caleb Puckett is a writer and visual artist living in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and has pieces forthcoming in Elsewhere: A Journal for the Literature of Place, Greenbeard Magazine and Radiant Turnstile. His prose collection, Tales from the Hinterland, is available from Otoliths Books.

Niall Quinn

Niall Quinn was born in Dublin in 1961. Educated at University College Dublin and the Universities of London and Wales. He is married to a Columbian artist, has three children and lives in Devon. 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. Some of the texts on Great Works now have mp3s of Niall reading attached.

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Phlebas Poems

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Rufo Quintavalle, two poems

Rufo Quintavalle was born in London and lives in Paris. His work can be found in recent issues of elimae, Shadowtrain, P.F.S. Post and NO/ON. His pamphlet, Make Nothing Happen was published by Oystercatcher Press earlier this year (2009). He has a poem in the Dutch magazine Versal coming out in May.

Peter Reiling, three poems and some prose

Peter Reiling has had art education at the University of East London and the Slade (and catering qualifications from poor old Braintree College). He has participated in or organised a whole range of multimedia events and installations, including this year VOP at the Betsey Trotwood, Suburbia at the Foreign Press Association, and Phonetic poetry at the Montague Arms, New Cross.

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.

Monika Rinck (translated, Amos Weisz) six poems

Monika Rinck is a poet and essayist, a member of the action group 'Das Lemma', and an actress in the fictional docu-soap Le Pingpong d'Amour. Her work includes fumbling with matches: Herumfingern an Gleichgesinnten (SuKuLTuR, 2005), Verzückte Distanzen: Gedichte (Zu Klampen, 2004), Begriffsstudio 1996-2001 (edition sutstein, 2001), and Neues von der Phasenfront (b_books, 1998). She currently works for INFORADIO in Berlin and teaches at the Religious Studies Department of the Free University Berlin. She also translates English and American poetry into German. She has work available online on Poetry International Web (with translation), her internet-based work in progress begriffstudio and on neuedichte.de, and can be heard reading her work (with texts & translations of the texts by Alistair Noon also available) on Lyrikline. Translations of her poetry have also been published in Shearsman. I would like to thank Monika for her help in getting these translations published.

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).

Stephanie Jane Robinson, Ballad of the Reading Jail

Stephanie Robinson is a poet from Wigan, currently studying for an M.A in creative writing. She lives with her mum, dad, brother and dog Smokey. She had her first poem published at the age of 8 in a small local anthology, since then she has been part of the writing team for Incorporating Writing online magazine, and her contributions included a review of the H.G Wells novella The Time Machine and an interview with journalist and writer Erwin James. She has her own webzine, which is in early stages of publication, for which she is creator and chief editor: The Gothic Pages. She recently won The Lancashire Writing Hub's People's Writing competition for her poem 'Older'.

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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.

Reeti Roy, five poems

Reeti Roy is an independent journalist and writer originally from Calcutta, India. She graduated with a BA (first class honours) in English literature from Jadavpur University Calcutta. Her work has been published in Indian newspapers and nagazines such as the Statesman, The Telegraph, The Times of India and Femina and her travel writing has been published by Matador Network. Her grants include The Choice Fellowship from The Seagull Foundation For The Arts, The Matador Network Fellowship from Matador Network, the largest Independent online travel magazine and The Charles Wallace India Trust Fund to pursue the Scottish Universities' International Summer School in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. She is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Steven Ruel, nine texts

Go to his MySpace for Steven Ruels's music. He has another poem online on The Centrifugal Eye.

David Rushmer

David Rushmer edited pen:umbra magazine (1988-1991). Studied photography and art & psychology at University of East London, graduating in 1995, and now works as a Library Assistant for the University of Cambridge. His artworks and writing have appeared in a number of small press magazines in the U.K., France and the U.S.A. His artworks have been exhibited in Cambridge, London and Yokohama. Most recent publications are Centripetal, centrifugal (English Faculty Library, Cambridge, 2004), The Family of Ghosts (Arehouse, Cambridge, 2005) and Blanchot's Ghost (Oystercatcher Press, 2008), and two poems on eratio.

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from Blanchot's Ghost

Miffy Ryan, Dwelling + Death Rattles

Miffy Ryan's homepage is Miffy Ryan – recent film, performance and prose work 2005–2012. She works at the School of Arts, University of Loughborough.

Gregory Vincent St Thomasino, Elegy for Christopher Smart

Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino was born in Greenwich Village, New York, and was raised in both the city and in the country across the Hudson River in New Jersey. He was educated at home, eventually to enter Fordham University where he received a degree in philosophy. His poetry and prose have appeared in print in Barrow Street, The Germ, jubilat, Washington Review and in Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics. and online at Onedit, Nthposition, elimae, hutt, Cordite Poetry Review and at Xcp: Streetnotes. His interview with the writer Colin Wilson is online at The Argotist Online. He lives in Brooklyn Heights, New York, where he edits the online poetry journal, eratio, and works as a private docent.

A commentary on the poem: I became interested in Christopher Smart back in 1978, by way of the composer Benjamin Britten. Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb (a Festival Cantata), is a setting of parts from Smart's long poem, Jubilate Agno. Included (in Britten's cantata) are some lines from what is probably Smart's best known lines, 'For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry.' Here Smart takes his beloved cat as an example of nature praising God by being simply what the Creator intended it to be. Probably the popularity of this poem is due to its inclusion in Pound's anthology. (Bucke does not include Smart on his list of instances [in Richard M. Bucke, Cosmic Consciousness] – lesser, imperfect or otherwise – but I think maybe so.)

Julie Sampson

Julie Sampson has been published in Shearsman, Equinox, The Journal and on the Agenda website. She is a member of the Fire River Poets. In addition, she edited Mary, Lady Chudleigh: Selected Poems last year, for Shearsman; has just had a paper on Anne Dowriche in The Devonshire Association's Report and Transactions and keeps an occasional blog, Scrapblog: A Writer from the South-West.

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Iftekhar Sayeed

Iftekhar Sayeed teaches English and economics. He was born and lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh. His poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in DANFORTH REVIEW, POSTCOLONIAL TEXT and DALHOUSIE REVIEW from Canada; PEARL, WORDS WORDS WORDS, ROGUESCHOLARS.COM, WRITETHIS.COM, PERIGEE, OPEDNEWS.COM, DREAMAGIC.COM, POET'S HAVEN, AXIS OF LOGIC, THE SQUARE TABLE, LITVISION, SOUTHERN CROSS REVIEW, RITRO.COM, PEMMICAN, GOWANUS, UNLIKELY STORIES (February, April, July 2006, Feb 2007), FREEZERBOX, MOBIUS, CATALYZER, ALTAR MAGAZINE, ONLINE JOURNAL (2005, 2006, 2007), LEFT CURVE (2004, 2005) and THE WHIRLIGIG in the United States; in Britain: ENTER TEXT, PENNINE INK, CURRENT ACCOUNTS, MOUSEION, ERBACCE, THE JOURNAL, POETRY MONTHLY, ENVOI, ORBIS, ACUMEN and PANURGE; and in ASIAWEEK in Hong Kong; CHANDRABHAGA and the JOURNAL OF INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISH in India; and HIMAL in Nepal 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.

Engendered Space

PRESENT AT PLASSEY

Nicholas R Scott, The Prison Series + the Pie Series

Nicholas R Scott is a recent graduate of the BA Creative Writing course at the University of Bedfordshire, and something of a large bearded geek. His fiction revolves around Science Fiction and the Fantastical, and his poetry is an exploration into mathematical methodology and innovative uses of syntax. He is currently working on his first novel. Waffle, blogs, and general musings can be found at www.nicholasrscott.co.uk

Maurice Scully, two poems

Maurice Scully is an Irish poet living in Dublin. His most recent publications are 5 Freedoms of Movement (Swansea, Galloping Dog Press,1987 [2nd edition, South Devonshire, etruscan books, 2001]), Livelihood (Bray, Wild Honey Press, 2004), Sonata (Reality Street Editions, 2006), and Tig (Exeter, Shearsman Books, 2006), which together compose Things That Happen .

Ian Seed

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.

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Six Prose Poems

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John Seed, Poems

John Seed's most recent books are New & Collected Poems and Pictures from Mayhew: London 1850, both published by Shearsman (2005). John Seed 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

More examples of Aidan Semmens's "distressed sonnets", such as "And Brake Them Beneath The Mount" and "Where Is He That Counted The Towers" featured here, are forthcoming from Blackbox Manifold and Free Verse. More of his poetry can be found online at Shearsman, Jacket, Jack, Shadow Train and Stride Magazine. Some out-of-print work from the 1970s and 80s is available on his own website aidansemmens.co.uk. See also wodewose.daportfolio.com for photos. And Great Works has more poems by Aidan Semmens.

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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.

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 (open in a new window).

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).

Rupert Loydell & Robert Sheppard, from Risk Assessment

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

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, including the ebook Carrier of the Seed, 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.

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Hannah Silva, poems

Hannah Silva is a writer and theatre maker living in Plymouth. She has been awarded a place as a playwright on the the Arvon/Jerwood mentoring scheme for new and gifted writers in the UK. For information on upcoming performances and projects please visit her website: http://www.hannahsilva.co.uk.

Ron Singer

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. Ron Singer's poems have previously appeared in alba, borderlands: The Texas Poetry Review, Contemporary Rhyme, elimae, Gander Press Review, Great Works, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Island Advantages, New Works Review (featured poet, Fall 2008), Poetry Midwest, Puckerbrush Review, right hand pointing, Waterways, The Windsor Review, and Word Riot, amongst other places. Some of these poems have been set to music by various composers, and three are included in the 2009 anthology, Poetic Voices Without borders-2. His new ebook, The Second Kingdom, is available from Cantarabooks LLC.

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The Shiny Pants Brigade

Elias Siqueiros, three poems

Elias Siqueiros 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.

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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 Genedub 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.

Mark Smith, five poems

"Mark Smith is an undergraduate student at Edge Hill University studying Creative Writing. He is the 2010 joint-winner of the Edge Hill Rhiannon Evans Poetry Competition for his collection of poems, Pilgrim. Mark currently works as one of the co-editors for online journal The Black Market Review. His power is maximum."

Pete Smith

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).

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).

Evacuation Procedures

Alison Smith, two poems

Alison Smith is a poet, person-centred practitioner in education, a human potential facilitator. She has worked as a psychiatric nurse, adult literacy tutor, tutor in adult education, before training to be a secondary teacher in English in 1989. She has been teaching English and English Literature to teenagers and adults since then, in various settings. She lives and works in Northumberland, and has a house in Crete, where she spends summers. She has had poems published in Loutro Poems (Worldspirit, 2006). Alison admires Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich, Carl Rogers and Alice Walker and wants to learn to speak fluent Greek, ignore her inner male critic and leave mainstream education. And have poems published.

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.

Joseto Solis, from The Ingredients of Oneself

Joseto Solis was born and raised in Mexico City. In September 2003 he moved to Luton for the BA (Hons) Creative Writing and Journalism Studies course, and is now doing a postgraduate translation course in Madrid.

Anna Smith-Spark, two poems

Anna Smith-Spark has a PhD in English Literature from Birkbeck College. Her thesis was about the late-Victorian occult text, The Secret Doctrine, by Madame Blavatsky. She is currently working on a novel based on her PhD work. She helps out at the Sundays at the Oto poetry readings.

Steve Spence, three poems

Recently completed an M. A. in Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth, studying with Tony Lopez. Poems published recently in the anthology In the Presence of Sharks (Phlebas, Plymouth, 2006). Work forthcoming in Orphans of Albion, a poetry anthology due out this year from Survivors Poetry/The Sixties Press. Poems also due out in The Text, The David Jones Journal and Tremblestone no. 6. These poems are part of a collection, The Pirates, hoping for publication shortly. Has read quite extensively in the South West: Plymouth, Exeter, Taunton, Totnes etc.

Nicolas Spicer

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 Snakeskin, Dreamcatcher, Fire, Stride magazine & Shadowtrain, & the anthology Truths & Disguises (Bluechrome, 2005). There is a pamphlet (Nero's Music) available from Collective Unconscious.

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Simplicity

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Ben Stainton, four poems

Ben Stainton lives in rural Suffolk. His poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in Poetry Salzburg Review, Gists and Piths, Blackbox Manifold, and Stride. His debut collection, The Jealousies was published in 2008 by Bewrite Books. Ben's website is bpswords.

Martin Stannard, five poems

Martin Stannard is a poet and critic. His books of poetry include A Hundred of Happiness (1995), Difficulties & Exultations (Smith/Doorstop, 2001) and Writing Down the Days: New & Selected Poems (Stride Books, 2001), Coral (Leafe press, 2004) and most recently Faith (Shadowtrain Books, 2009). Conversations With Myself (Stride, 1999) is a collection of reviews and essays published between 1984 and 1998. He was founding editor of the great poetry zine Joe Soap's Canoe, and has various websites extant: Exultations & Difficulties, a blogzine (with older material on a different URL), and Martin Stannard's Home from Home: Infoweb Poet-Heaven. Martin has read his poems at venues throughout the UK and America, such as the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival and St Mark's in New York City. He has taught poetry and creative writing in schools, colleges, and a variety of community-based environments for over twenty years. He has held numerous residencies, ranging from conventional work in schools to a joint project with a ceramics artist in a Lincolnshire village. From 2005 until the summer of 2007, Martin was in China teaching spoken English to university students. In 2007 he returned to the UK to be the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at Nottingham Trent University. Then, in 2008, he again returned to China (hence problems with blogging!). Litter has a special feature on the poetry of Martin Stannard.

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, six poems

Geoff Stevens edits Purple Patch poetry magazine from West Bromwich. He has a very fun Geoff Stevens website. His most recent collection is The Phrenology of Anaglypta (Bluechrome, 2004).

Paul Stronge

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

It Seems So Long Ago

Two Swimming-Pool Dreams

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Janet Sutherland, two poems

Shearsman published Janet Sutherland's first collection in 2006, Burning the Heartwood. She has had work in a number of magazines over the years, print and web based: KUDOS, ninth decade, Strange Mathematics, Poesie Europe, Sows Ear, The News, Reality Studios, Angels of Fire, The Rialto, Lettera, Shearsman, Stride, Damn the Caesars, Litter.

Andrew Taylor, four poems

Andrew Taylor is a Liverpool poet and co-editor and publisher of erbacce magazine and erbacce-press. He also blogs and MySpaces. His latest collection of poetry, And the Weary Are at Rest comes from Sunnyoutside Press. Poems have recently appeared or are due to appear in The Journal of Heroin Love Songs, The Houston Literary Review and Pages. He is a founder member of Edge Hill University's Poetry and Poetics Research Group. He has a PhD in Poetry and Poetics.

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 Steven Taylor, 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 Closing Nostalgia Road; 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

Nathan Thompson lives in Jersey. Shearsman published his first collection, the arboretum towards the beginning, in 2008. Pamphlets are due soon from Skald (A Haunting) and Oystercatcher (holes in the map). He is currently working on his second full-length collection.

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four lipogram sonnets from a Haunting

Scott Thurston

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 Turns (with Robert Sheppard) (Ship of Fools/Radiator, 2003). His most recent books are Hold (Shearsman, 2006) and a sequence of ninety poems called Momentum (Shearsman, 2008). He has completed a PhD on Contemporary British Linguistically Innovative Poetry and Poetics and contributes regularly to Poetry Salzburg Review. He lectures in English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Salford and has published on Allen Fisher, Adrian Clarke, John Wilkinson, Maggie O'Sullivan, Ulli Freer, Ira Lightman, Geraldine Monk and Tony Lopez. He edits The Radiator, a little magazine of poetry and poetics, and recently edited The Salt Companion to Geraldine Monk. See his pages at www.archiveofthenow.com.

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from Momentum

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)).

Alyson Torns, two poems

Alyson Torns graduated with a BA in Creative Writing in 2003. She has had poems published in Poetry London, The Interpreter's House, Fire, The Wolf, Neon Highway and Tears in the Fence. Her most recent publication is From the Lost Property Office: a quartet for Pessoa (Hearing Eye, 2006). She teaches tennis and tai chi. She is also one of teh organisers of the Blue Bus reading series at The Lamb, Lambs Conduit Street.

Lydia Towsey, six poems

Lydia Towsey is a poet and spoken word artist. In addition to writing and performing, Lydia is chair of voluntary arts in mental health organization, BrightSparks. She also co runs The Brighter Side (performance poetry project) with fellow poet, Rob Gee. She organizes arts in mental health projects for the NHS, facilitates poetry workshops and coordinates Leicester's principal spoken word night, WORD! In 2007 Lydia was commissioned to write and perform for the Freedom Showcase. The show has plans to tour in 2008. Shortly after the Freedom Showcase, Lydia was asked to play The Devil in a short film, Hindmost. In 2009 she will be featured poet in Coffee House Magazine. Meanwhile she is completing her first collection and developing work for a new touring show. She can be found facilitating in any number of schools and community groups. She drinks a lot of tea. If any of this interests you, you should really check her Lydia Towsey MySpace presence and read her Lydia's Blog on Wordpress.

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Davide Trame, Three Poems

Davide Trame is an Italian teacher of English living in Venice. His poems have appeared since 1999 in The Shop, International Poetry Review, Stand, Dream Catcher, Orbis, Meridian Anthology, Diner, and other magazines, and online in Nimble Spirit, nthposition and eclectica.

Juliet Troy, five poems

Juliet Troy is a mature student on the BA Creative writing course at University of Bedfordshire. She has had a poem published in the Ver Poets 40th Anniversary Anthology, and has work forthcoming in The Poetry Salzburg Review and Neon Highway.

Stephen Van-Hagen, four poems

Stephen Van-Hagen's primary field of academic study is the poetry of the long eighteenth century and his PhD was awarded by the University of Kent in 2006 for a thesis entitled The Poetry of Physical Labour 1730-1800. Most of his publications are in the field of labouring-class poetry and in 2005 Stephen selected, edited and introduced The Life and Lucubrations of Crispinus Scriblerus: A Selection (Gloucestershire: The Cyder Press), comprising extracts from James Woodhouse's autobiographical epic. I have recently completed a book, The Poetry of Mary Leapor, that is forthcoming in Greenwich Exchange Press' Focus On series. He is presently researching and writing two further books, The Student Guide to Jonathan Swift (also for Greenwich Exchange), as well as a critical biography of James Woodhouse. He has been writing poetry since his teens that is influenced by the American modernist and postmodernist poets, and has published in a range of magazines and journals. As an undergraduate at the University of Kent in the late 1990s he was twice shortlisted for the University's T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize. He is presently Associate Head of the Department of English and History, and Programme Leader for BA Hons. English Literature, at EdgeHillUniversity in Lancashire, U.K.

Robert Vas Dias, Poems from Select Things

Robert Vas Dias, an Anglo-American born in London, has published six collections in the USA and UK, edited and co-edited four literary journals, and is publisher of Permanent Press. HeĀ organised two poetry conferences for Gresham College, London, the most recent being "Verbal inter Visual" in 2001. A selection from Select Things first appeared from Backwoods Broadsides in Maine, USA, in 2001. The Guts of Shadows, a collaborative images-and-poems book with the British artist John Wright, will be published on 9 September 2003 by Permanent Press and Art First, London. For details, visitĀ www.permanentpress.org.

"Boots Hotwater Bottle", "Dixon Enduro Pencil Sharpener", "Estwing Hammer", "Plastic Potters Melamine Plate" and "Renault 4" were all published in the Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series (Ellsworth, Maine, 2001).

Steven Waling, four poems

Steven Waling has recently published his latest collection, Travelator, just out from Salt, and Calling Myself on the Phone (Smith/Doorstop, 2004) before that. Poems recently published at www.dusie.com and forthcoming in Parameter. He comes from Accrington, lives in Manchester and is currently Writer-in-Residence at HMP Whatton. His blog, BrandosHat is well worth visiting.

A A Walker

A. A. Walker is a Scottish writer and performer based in London. His writings have been published by various magazines and websites such as Cauldron and Net, Muse Apprentice Guild, Prakalpana Literature, Carnivorous Arpeggio, Heaven Bone and others. He has worked as producer on a number of literary/theatrical/musical events. In 2008 started Uru-Ana with sound artist, Alex Thomas. Combining narrative vocalisations and poetry, guitar, violin, spontaneous, electro-acoustic soundscapes and musical composition, Uru-Ana has broadcast on Resonance FM and XStream East Radio and played at venues such as the Shunt Vaults, the Foundry, Café Oto, the George Tavern, Southwark Playhouse. Termination #1: For Sale is at Cauldron and Net, Termination #2: Paper, Pen, Ink is on Muse Apprentice Guild.

Termination # 3: Quest

two Terminations

Offertorium

Nick Wayte

Nick Wayte lives in France and has published in several poetry magazines. He produced Resuscitator magazine and R Books with John James in the 1960s. He has also published two short collections: Seconds (Ferry Press 1969) and Signals (Wayward Press 1981). He served time as a cultural studies lecturer at Gloucestershire College of Art & Design (now part of the University of Gloucestershire).

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Nick Wayte lives in France and has published in several poetry magazines. He produced Resuscitator magazine and R Books with John James in the 1960s. He has also published two short collections: Seconds (Ferry Press 1969) and Signals (Wayward Press 1981). He served time as a cultural studies lecturer at Gloucestershire College of Art & Design (now part of the University of Gloucestershire). He has other poems in Great Works.

Tomas Weber, two poems

Tomas Weber is a student, though is currently moving between France, Jersey, and the UK. He has poetry and fiction online at (or shortly to be so) BLACKBOX: a record of the crash, Thieves Jargon, The Corduroy Mtn, Mud Luscious, and more. His first poetry pamphlet "The Small Stones" was published in 2009 by Perdika Press. These two poems are taken from a collaborative book project with the Uruguayan poet Juan Grunwaldt, which is currently in progress. Tomas blogs on the sinking feeling is a feeling we are not stones.

Amos Weisz

Amos Weisz was a poet and a translator, who tragically died in 2008. He published one volume of poems, Woss the Damage, Djinn? (Make Shift Press, 2006). A volume of his writings has been publishe d posthumously, Worksongs (Waterlo Press, 2015), available from Great Works.

Adonis

Bitter the code

Boats of human kindness

poem from Elegan

This poem is from a sequence written when Amos was living with his second wife, Nuala, and their children, in a small town in Ireland.

The End of Mourning

the lancôme rainforest

Make Shift Press

Make Shift or Makeshift Press was a project of Amos's round about 2006, after a visit to India indicated the possibility of cheap printing and book production, and at a period when he had very sympathetic treatment from Haringay Mental Health. It was to publish poetry by people with mental illness, as poetry, not therapy or witness or survival manual. Only one book seems to have been produced, woss teh damage, djinn?, a short collection of prose and poetry by Amos, some of which is very raw fantasy. It doesn't seem to have been distributed. MSS by other people were in a state of preparation at the time of his death. I've published here two accounts by him of the project, in interestingly differing voices:

Prospectus for Makeshift Press

Amos had entitled this "programmatic apology for the existence, dissemination and production of mad poetry"

Article for Equilibrium

written for a magazine for people with mental health conditions.

Naturena

Non Juan

Non Juan is one of Amos's finest achievements — he carries it off with appropriate bravado and humour, and no whimsy. It moves from a version of his autobiography to evocations of Berlin low life, tailing off rather, and stopped rather than finished. Amos's talent was not in structure, but in detail and fine grain effects.

opening of Non Juan

possible ending to Part II

of mutabilitie

Spirit of my descendants

Similar psychological material to the opening of Non Juan is used here, more rawly. Heiner is Heiner Müller, the German playwright who Amos translated, and also imitated. According to Amos, I was told, he had been looking with interest at a play Amos had written, and died with it on his bedside table — meaning of course, it was never performed. "Long live the Lacondonian rain forest" refers to a holiday in Mexico with his first wife, the novelist Sandra Newman. She refers to this more obliquely in a brief memoir of Amos, The People of the Lacandonian Rain Forest on her website. See also the lancôme rainforest.

Thymos

This is one ofthe many short poems very typical of Amos's best writing. There are variations in the form and the extent to which it is articulated through a felt subjective voice, but it typically displays a gorgeously wide vocabulary strung along where discourse breaks into parataxis.

tinfoot

To my daughter

Amos Weisz translating Sascha Anderson, Jewish Jetset

Amos Weisz translating Bertold Brecht (from Hauspostille)

Amos translated the whole text of Hauspostille, the coherent and structured collection of poetry Brecht published in 1927. It is not sufficiently known in this country, where his poetry tends to be read from selected or collected translations, which don't give the clear structure of the work. It is a parody of German devotional literature (whether Catholic or Protestant): Eric Bentley's translation is titled Manual of Piety, Amos used the snappy Home Herald. Brecht's wonderful and deeply felt cynicism appealed at some stages to Amos greatly (though there were other religious impulses through his life), and it's typical that of all Brecht's work, it should be this he worked on. Though he does not seem to have worked on Brecht's pays, he did do a lot of translation of Heiner Müller's plays.

Amos Weisz translating Paul Celan (from Lichtzwang)

"Todtnauberg" and "Hörreste, Sehreste". Todtnauberg was the location of Heidegger's chalet in the Black Forest, where Celan visted him in 1966, the poem giving Celan's response to the meeting. The whole sequence was written while Celan was under or recovering from psychiatric care (a situation Amos knew well). Erna Weiss, his mother, thinks it important that Amos's father, the scholar Joseph Weiss, was, like Celan, a German-speaking (not Yiddish-speaking) Jew from the Bukovina, the intensely culturally mixed province at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, "beyond Transylvania", and they would have spoken a similar German.

Amos Weisz translating Johannes Jansen, Ditch of fragments/Registrations II

Amos Weisz translating Monika Rinck, six poems

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John Welch

John Welch was born in London in 1942 and he worked for thirty years as a teacher of english as a Second Language in East London comprehensive schools. In 1984 his anthology for schools Stories from South Asia appeared from OUP. He has had many volumes of poetry published, including The Eastern Boroughs by Shearsman in 2004, who also brought out in 2008 his Collected Poems and Dreaming Arrival, a memoir. He also runs Many Press. There are poems and readings on Archive of the Now. And John now has a John Welch blog.

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British Estate

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Yearn Glass

Yearn Glass makes reference to All Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go by the London-based Lebanese artist Souheil Sleiman. The work was Lebanon's official entry for last year's Alexandria Biennale. It comprises hundreds of fragments of mirror attached to a framework of chicken wire. All Dressed Up . . . is a glass tower, like a skyscraper that is unravelling. There's a reference to the Twin Towers, to something apparently massive and solid which turned out to be vulnerable. The artist has said that he is also thinking of the rebuilding of Beirut. Previous work of his has explored the ecology of this and its effects on the surrounding landscape. At the same time in his piece something has been taken apart and simplified. He has suggested there is also a reference to the banks of TV screens you used to get in shops, mirror fragments as the screens. Souheil Sleiman's studio is in Hackney Wick in East London, one of those industrial areas where many traditional industries having moved out the premises have been occupied by artist's studios. Not far away is the site for the 2012 Olympics. Next door to the studio there is a workshop, the premises of 'Yearn Glass and Co, Mirror Manufacturers'.

Mike Weller, Horizontal Networks 2

In 1989, with a nod from Bob Cobbing, Mike Weller first discovered that scattered detrital images left on New River Project's print-room floor were publishable, utterable, and performable within a London-based poetics. Michael J. Weller's narrative art and visual associations have since been enriched and emboldened by involvement with Little Presses, Sub Voicive function-room poets, Writers Forum (WF) workshops, Klinker Club, and participation in Dmitry Bulatov's Russian-English Homo Sonorus International Anthology of Sound Poetry book-CD collection, NCCA Kaliningrad (2001). In homage to Cobbing, and for his ongoing WF imprint, Weller produced the amazing choreographic Beowulf Cartoon with an introduction by Bill Griffiths (2004). Scanning an ever-growing image-hoard, Weller is now investigating both limitations and wider possibilities of doing web-based work.

Tom White, seven poems

Tom White has recently moved from Casablanca to London, in order to involve himself in the poetry scene here. These poems are taken from Joke Book, which re-mixes each page of The Goodbyes by John Ash it into a new poem. Tom has just started working on a new project, Echo, an attempt to turn the national newspapers into poetry. More work can be found at Dusie and Stride.

Les Wicks

Les Wicks' books are The Vanguard Sleeps In (Glandular, 1981), Cannibals (Rochford St, 1985), Tickle (Island, 1993), Nitty Gritty (Five Islands, 1997), The Ways of Waves (Sidewalk, 2000), Appetites of Light (Presspress, 2002), Stories of the Feet (Five Islands, 2004) & The Ambrosiacs (Island, 2009). He's performed at festivals, schools, prison etc. Runs workshops across Australia & is editor of Meuse Press which focuses on poetry outreach projects like poetry on buses & poetry published on the surface of a river. He has a personal website, with some poems on it. There are also poems of his on Shampoo, Sugar Mule, Stylus Poetry Journal and Southern Ocean Review.

Three Poems

five poems

James Wilkes, Two Poems

James Wilkes was born in Dorset in 1980, and studied Psychology and Philosophy before taking an MA in creative writing. He writes poetry and makes poem-objects, writes for the art journal Studio International and has contributed reviews to Intercapillary Space and Terrible Work. He is an occasional host of Penned in the Margins on London's Resonance 104.4fm. He has produced (with Lynne Wilkes) a beautiful illustrated book ex chaos (Ranscombe Press, 2006), based on Japanese creation myths. James is making available for £4.50 a series of hand-printed postcard poems, A DeTour, that rework selections from Defoe's A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain — contact on renscombe.press@yahoo.co.uk.

Poems from Eggbox B1 were created by cutting up and re-arranging words from Wallace Stevens' Sea Surface Full of Clouds and S.T. Coleridge's This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison, and then pasting the words onto the flat surfaces of large catering eggbox. The square little towers between the eggs certain of their flat surfaces to be visible whilst occluding others – a bit like the way a hologram works. So if you look at the box from one side, you will, for example, see only the Williams words. If you turn it through 90 degrees, you will have words from Williams and Coleridge intercut: W, C, W, C. . . Turn again and you get only Coleridge. And the final turn gives you a different combination of the two. You can see illustrations of the eggboxes here (opens in a new window).

John Wilkinson, six poems

John Wilkinson teaches at the University of Notre Dame. At present (2007-8) he is Carl & Lily Pforzheimer Fellow at the National Humanities Center, and is writing about Barbara Guest, George Oppen and James Schuyler, as well as writing poems. His most recent books are Lake Shore Drive (salt, 2006) (poetry) and The Lyric Touch (Salt, 2007) (criticism). A new book of poetry titled Down to Earth will be published by Salt in 2008. Some recent poems online can be found at ActionYes, Salt Magazine, and Mute. A 'critical conversation' with Peter Riley is accessible on the Chicago Review website.

Johan de Wit

Most recent publications: Palm Stories (Kater Murr's Press, 2009) (some of Palm Stories published in Great Works, others in The Reality Street Book of Sonnets; No Hand Signals or the Invisibility of Language in Poetry: Statements 1992–2008 (Veer, 2009) – the Statements on Great Works are not included in this publication. Some of Johan's other publications include Rose Poems (Actual Size, 1986), Metropolitan Drinking Fountain & Cattle Trough (Microbrigade, 1992), Linear A No. A (1992), Linear A No. B (1996), April Late Spring & Title and Six Pages (Writers Forum, 1997), The October Revolution in Poetry (Mainstream, 1997), Hippototescopo (West House Books, 2000), footnotes (housepress, 2002) & extragalactic fits of terrestrial pits (canary woof press, 2002). Work of his is available on the GutCult West House Books Anthology, Kater Murr's Press, in Dutch on No Papers, and with a contribution to Fire archived.

Annulus

Palm Stories

Johan de Wit, ten Statements

Leslie Wolter, Moon Madness

Leslie Wolter is an English instructor and Co-Director of the Writing Resource Center at McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois. Her work has appeared in LitBits, Ascent Aspirations, Viva Barista, Poor Mojo's Almanac(k), The Drill Press, Prose Toad, and Eclectica.

Simon Wright, A Fragmented Verticality

The texts are excerpts from a larger project undertaken while living in the Brazilian city of São Paulo. 'Walk One' is derived from a series of walks the author took along one of the busy thoroughfares in the local neighbourhood, while 'Eighteen Storeys' represents a small piece considering the view over the city from his apartment window. Simon Wright initially trained as an artist, studying Fine Art at MA level at Central Saint Martins College, before deciding to concentrate exclusively on writing. This is his first project (and is, as yet, unpublished). He currently lives in Bristol, and can be contacted at simonwrig@hotmail.com.

Anjali Yardi, Pepper-and-salt Like Mary Kostakidis

Anjali Yardi was born in India and now lives in Australia. She has two MA degrees taken twenty-four years apart at Delhi and Melbourne universities respectively. Poems and translations of hers have recently appeared in Shadow Train. Note that Mary Kostakidis is a newsreader on SBS-TV, Australia's multicultural broadcaster.

Cliff Yates, five poems

Cliff Yates won the Aldeburgh first collection prize and the Poetry Business book & pamphlet competition with Henry's Clock. His latest collection is Frank Freeman's Dancing School from Salt, and his website is www.cliffyates.co.uk.

Changming Yuan, two poems

Changming Yuan published several books and a dozen essays on translation in China before moving to Canada. Currently Yuan teaches English in Vancouver and has had poems appearing in Dalhousie Review, London Magazine, The Argotist On-Line, Offcourse, Private and many others.

Lisa Zaran, six poems

Lisa Zaran is a poet and essayist living in Arizona. She has had published 6 collections & chapbooks: the sometimes girl (InnerCircle Publishing, 2004), You Have A Lovely Heart (Little Poem Press, 2004), Clipped From Our Days (an online chapbook with Argonauts' Boat, 2005), The Blondes Lay Content (full collection, Lulu Press, 2006), Subtraction Flower, (Lulu Press, 2006), & WinK, (limited edition chapbook, 2007). Lisa has many poems in magazines and anthologies. She has a personal website, and also runs Contemporary American Voices: An Online Journal of Poetry.