Biographies
Stephen C. Middleton has had five books of poetry published, mostly recently Worlds of Pain / Shades of Grace (University of Salzburg, 1996) and A Brave Light (Stride, 1999). He is the editor of Ostinato and the The Tenormen Press, the former a magazine publishing jazz-related poetry, prose, interviews and artwork, the latter publishing large-format art/text editions with a jazz theme, including hand bound books. He is currently working on several book projects involving jazz, blues, outsider art, and long-term illness.
Jeremy Hilton edits the poetry magazine Fire. A collection of his own poems, EARTHBOUND, appeared in 2000 from Phlebas Press, and another collection, SLIPSTREAM, is due shortly from Edizioni Ripostes, Salerno, Italy.
Tim Fletcher taught himself to play the tenor saxophone playing jazz gigs in London pubs on leaving school. He joined a military band in 1961 and continued playng what was then called "modern jazz" in clubs in Hong Kong and Germany. Eventually he tired of military music and on leaving the band graduated at Christ Church College Canterbury in 1971. Part of his course was studying English and this was when he started writing poetry. Tim Fletcher became a teacher and eventually a head teacher. He took early retirement and devoted himself entirely to writing poetry and making CDs interrelated with various contemporary musics.
Sean Burn has just finished touring FATBASTARD - a novella
written for Demotext 2001. Author of three poetry pamphlets (leery
received a Northern Arts writers award in 1997), the most recent
was voltairechoruses - a collaboration with photographer Andrew
Hardie. He belongs to Paternoster - a collaboration between northern writers and international musicians. Their 2000 anthology
Paternoster included an excerpt from his novel margin walkin. His
prose has been widely published with further novel excerpts
appearing in Whitenoise and Route. Plays include in an age of
double-glazin commissioned by Plaines Plough (1999).
Cory Harding was around in the small press scene back in the ’70,s’ when he edited a magazine and published booklets by individual writers. Then he dropped out of it all for 20 years.
Damian Robinson is 33 years old and started writing aged eleven. It is only in the last two and a half years that he has tried to get anything published or performed.
Having now tasted a little success and having articles, poems and short stories published he is now looking to have his first novel published as well as a collection of poetry.
Steve Spence: Involved in organising poetry readings/performances in Plymouth. Assistant editor of Terrible Work magazine for issues 7-10. Reviews for various mags & currently reviews for The Terrible Work website. Poetry published in a number of mags including Fire, Eratica; Tears in the Fence; Tremblestone; Magma & The Black Mountain Review. Work forthcoming in an anthology of Plymouth-based poets.
Carolyn G-Waudby
Carolyn Waudby is a freelance journalist studying the MA in Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. A poem she wrote on wind turbines was set to film for the Millennium. With the help of a Yorkshire Arts grant she recently published a pamphlet of poems ‘Bouquet’ based on works of art from the Saatchi Collection.
Andrew Mayne teaches English at a secondary school in Manchester. He has published several textbooks, some critical writing and student editions of plays. His poetry has appeared over the last two years in staple, Smiths Knoll, Obis, Envoi, The New welsh review, Magma, Other Poetry, poetry Nottingham international, the interpreters house and several other magazines. He is at present trying to place his first volume, interiors, with a publisher.
Mark Farrell originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, teaches at Charles University in Prague. Recently published in The Paper (Sheffield), Orbis (Wirral), New Welsh Review (Cardiff), Poetry New Zealand (Auckland, NZ), and Coppertails (University of Southern Queensland, Australia). Forthcoming in Woorilla (Avonsleigh, Australia), Fire (Oxfordshire), and Poetry Motel (Duluth, Minnesota).
Barry Tebb: Born Leeds 1942. Educated Leeds Training College 1961-64. Taught Wyther Park Primary School 1964-67. Lived in cottage near Huddersfield with poet Brenda Williams, writing poetry and going for long walks. Had 2 children, lived in Leeds. Didn’t have inspiration for 25 years (1970-1995) then ‘block’ gone and haven’t stopped writing since. “The Lights of Leeds” published Redbeck Press. 2001.
Ken Champion: East End lad made bad. Lectures in sociology.
Poems published in anthologies and magazines and recently a small collection; scribbles them in shoeshops, garages, supermarkets.
Thomas McColl is 32, and lives in London. In 2001, he resigned from a bank management position to instead work as a bookseller. His salary was reduced by two-thirds overnight, but according to Tom, the change in occupation remains the best
decision he’s ever made.
Angela Keaton has had work published in a number of anthologies, small press poetry magazines and on the internet. She is currently researching at Edge Hill College for a PhD on Visual and Aural Aspects of Innovative Poetry.
Sheila Murphy
Newest publications: Incessant Seeds (Pavement Saw, 2003) and Green Tea with Ginger (Potes & Poets Press, 2003). Murphy’s work appears widely in literary presses. Her home is in Phoenix, Arizona, where she and Beverly Carver founded and coordinated the Scottsdale Centre for the Arts Poetry Series for twelve years.
Alan Corkish is a poet and wordsmith from Liverpool UK. His poetry and short stories are published widely in many small press publications and in several anthologies. The coming months will see the launch of his first personal anthology of poetry; Corrupted Memories’, and in Poole on Saturday October 4th the WORD art exhibition launches with a presentation of some fragments from his major poem ‘Glimpses of Notes’. He is also the author of ‘The A to Z of Education’ under the pen-name Chris O’Kalan.www.alancorkish.com
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