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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.

Other works by Richard Makin on this website are a section of Remoire – which novel was formerly published online by Zoilus Press — the poem sequence Under Luke Shades; and Work in Process, an earlier serial publication of work by Richard makin, published monthly 2004–2006.

• Richard Makin, St Leonards — current section new

This is a serial publication, with a fresh sequence from St Leonards available to be read by the end of each month. The complete text starts here. St Leonards will be published by Reality Street Editions in 2009, with photographs by Richard. Excellent review of St Leonards in progress on Intercapillary Space

• eight poems from the series Rift Designs new

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

Peter Hughes & Simon Marsh, Pistol Tree Poems new

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 most recent poems start here. There is more work by Peter Hughes on this site.

Jeffrey Side, seven poems new

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. He has other poems on Great Works.

David Chaloner, three poems new

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.

Hannah Silva, seven poems new

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. There are other poems by Hannah on Great Works.

Scott Helmes, two poems new

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.

Christopher Barnes, six poems new

In 1998 Christopher BarnesI won a Northern Arts writers award. Each year he read for Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival and I takes part in workshops. He has also read at the Edinburgh Festival and Morden trower. His collection LOVEBITES was published by Chanticleer Press in 2005. Chris has a BBC webpage. He has worked with visual images and film as well as text, and as part of a collaborative art and literature project called How Gay Are Your Genes, facilitated by Lisa Mathews (poet) which exhibited at The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, funded by The Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Institute, Bioscience Centre at Newcastle's Centre for Life. Chris was involved in the Five Arts Cities poetry postcard event which exhibited at The Seven Stories children's literature building. In May 2006 he had a solo art/poetry exhibition at The People's Theatre. Chris has written poetry reviews for Poetry Scotland and Jacket Magazine and in August 2007 he made a film called 'A Blank Screen, 60 seconds, 1 shot' for Queerbeats Festival at The Star & Shadow Cinema Newcastle, reviewing a poem. There are numerous poems by Chris on Great Works.

Lucy Harvest Clarke, three sonnets new

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, and on Great Works.

Richard Barrett, two poems

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. There are other poems by Richard on Great Works here and there.

James Price, three poems new

Aidan Semmens, three poems new

Aidan Semmens has had poetry published in several small magazines, mostly recently Shearsman, and online in Jacket, Shadowtrain, Stride and Jack. Out-of-print work from the 1970s and 80s is now accessible on www.aidansemmens.co.uk or via his blog at aidansemmens.blogspot.com where you will also find examples of his journalism. At other times he is a sports sub-editor for the News of the World. He has other poems on Great Works.

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

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.

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

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.

Ben Stainton, four poems new

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.

Ron Singer, The Shiny Pants Brigade new

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.

Charles Freeland, six poems new

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. He has other poems on Great Works.

Caleb Puckett, two poems new

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.

Mary Michaels, three prose poems new

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 online). Mary has a page on poetry pf. There are texts online at nth position, Staple, How2 and Shearsman.

Boris Jardine, five poems new

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.

Michael Egan, six poems new

Michael Egan is a poet from Liverpool and editor of a small magazine The Binturong Review. He is also a member of Edge Hill University's Poetry and Poetics Research Group. He has had poems published on Shadowtrain, and elsewhere on Great Works.

Tomas Weber, two poems new

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.

Alan Baker, from The Book of Random Access new

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. He has another poem on Great Works. Alan blogs on Litterbug.

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)

Rufo Quintavalle, two poems new

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.

AnnMarie Eldon new

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 a blog.

Mendoza, poems new

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.

Joseto Solis, from The Ingredients of Oneself new

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.

Adrian Clarke, from Eurochants

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.

Nathan Thompson, three poems

Nathan Thompson grew up in Cornwall and studied music and musicology at the University of Exeter, where he later lectured part time. His first collection the arboretum towards the beginning is published by Shearsman (2008)

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.

David Rushmer, two poems

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. There are more poems by David on Great Works, here and there.

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.

William Garvin, two poems

William Garvin's work has previously appeared on Great Works. His work has been featured in various poetry journals, both in the UK and the US, including recent appearances in Lamport Court and Moria.

Glenn R Frantz, four poems

Glenn R. Frantz is from southeastern Pennsylvania, USA. His poems have appeared in several online publications, including Otoliths, Exultations & Difficulties, Shadowtrain, Stride, and lots on 3by3by3. His personal web site is here: http://mysite.verizon.net/grfrantz.

Stephen Emmerson, four poems

Stephen Emmerson is a poet and occasional musician who worked with Michelle Scally-Clarke on her last album She Is which was released by Route alongside a book of the same name. He has given readings extensively throughout the UK from the Poetry Café in London to the Edinburgh festival. His work has been published in journals and magazines, including Poetry Salzburg Review, Spine, Route, Terrible Work, Necessary Angel, and Fire. There are more poems of his on Great Works.

Stephen has worked as a cook, a chef, a picture framer, a labourer, a soldier, a welders mate, a telesales 'executive', a customer service rep, a door to door salesman, an order picker, an admin assistant, and a receptionist. He has also worked at an abattoir, a recycling plant, and a bottle factory.

Gareth Durasow, two poems

Gareth Durasow is a West Yorkshire performace poet whose work largely consists of mock lamentations and devil's advocacy, often regarding mor(t)ality and our venerable X-Factor culture. His work has recently appeared in Shadowtrain and he has won prizes at this year's Ilkley and Huddersfield literature festivals. He currently writes for the acclaimed Wakefield theatre company, Horizon Arts; a job that pays enough to keep him implicated in the gradual overhaul of the secondary school curriculum via specialist diplomas. He is interviewed on LeftLion: Nottingham Culure website, and is on Facebook.

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.

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

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.

Paul Holman, THE MEMORY OF THE DRIFT Book Five: TARA MORGANA

Paul Holman's most recent book is 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.

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.

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.

Alasdair Paterson, from Noctivagator

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. Noctivagator, the collective title for the poems printed here, 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 recently.

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.

Stephen Van-Hagen,

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.

Stephen C Middleton,

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.

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.

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.

RG Gregory, Proverbs of Hell pdf

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. There are more poems on Great Works.

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 pdf new

In the Dirt is a sequence of poems written from the Winter Solstice 2006 through to Twelfth Night 2008, and by a variety of persons. Two sections are being made available on Great Works in pdf form, in each issue. They will not be maintained in the Archive.

• Tina Hyett, poems from In the Dirt (Section C) pdf new

Tina Hyett was born and raised in Harlow. She now lives in inner North London. Parndon Press published The Winter Journal in 1984. Seven Songs from The Autumn Journals are also on Great Works.

• Spencer Termott, THE MATCHING TYE SET (In the Dirt: Section D) pdf new

Spencer Termott may well be a pseudonym.

Sarah Jacobs, Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: We Report Here from the archive

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. Her electronic piece Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: We Report Here (published by information as material) uses 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. Her other work at present on Great Works is The Zigzag Paths. Reordering is a project on David Beridge's superb MORE MILK YVETTE: A JOURNAL OF THE BROKEN SCREEN blog, and you can try too Cycle from Song of the Data Stream.


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