Biographies
Adrian Clarke's collections include "Ghost Measures" (Actual Size, 1987), and "Obscure Disasters", "Millennial Shades & Three Papers" and "Skeleton Sonnets" (all Writers Forum). Work anthologised in "Verbi Visi Voco" (Writers Forum, 1992) and "Foil" (Etruscan Books, 2000). He co-edited "Floating Capital: new poets from London" (Potes & Poets Press, 1991) with
Robert Sheppard, and five issues of "And" magazine with the late Bob Cobbing. Since Cobbing's death he has been continuing Writers Forum's activities with Lawrence Upton.
IAN ROBINSON edits Oasis Magazine and Oasis books. His most recent publications are ‘How Do You Spell Bl…gh?” (Short Stories, Redbeck Press, 2002). And ‘A World Elsewhere’ (10 dream stories, eidolon press, 2002). Redbeck also published his ‘The Invention of Morning’ (poems) in 1997. Ninety six of his drawings were published in 1995 under the title ;The Glacier in the Cupboard’ by Permanent Press and S-Editions; And in 2001 two small pamphlets of visual work, ‘landscapes’ (10 drawings) and ‘Theorems’ (16 collages) were published by , respectively, Oasis Books and Offerta Speciale Visual Editions (Turin).
Scott Thurston's publications include Poems Nov 89 - Jun 91 (1991), Stateswalks (1994) (both Writers Forum) and Two Sequences (RWC, 1998). He also appeared in Sleight of Foot (Reality Street, 1996). He edits the poetics journal The Radiator and is publishing a series of interviews with contemporary poets in Poetry Salzburg Review.
Sam Smith recently employed as an amusement arcade cashier, Sam Smith has been a psychiatric nurse, residential social worker, milkman, plumber, laboratory analyst, groundsman, sailor, computer operator, scaffolder, gardener, painter & decorator........ working at anything, in fact, which has paid the rent, enabled him to raise his three daughters and which didn't get too much in the way of his writing. With poetry and articles widely published, especially in Britain, he already has 5 poetry collections, 10 novels and a history/biography to his name (see his own website for more details - http://members.aol.com/smithsssj/index.html). Editor of The Journal (once 'of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry'), publisher of Original Plus books, he is also proud to be Poetry Editor of Jacobyte Books (Australia) and Associate Editor of The River King Poetry Supplement (Illinois, USA). He was born in 1946.
James Murphy has been writing poetry for many years drawing off his personal experiences with the drug culture and the damage it can wreck. His poetry has appeared in newspapers, magazines and several national anthologies in the United States and his work has appeared in poetry corners in the United Kingdom. Murphy's first collect of poetry entitled "In Search of A soul" was published in 1996 with a Canadian copyright. Murphy has the rare ability to offer vivid imagery, life experiences and with his gift of storytelling to create entertaining, informing and spellbinding poetry.
DAVE WARD’s Publications include JAMBO (Impact), TRACTS (Headland), THE TREE OF DREAMS (Harper Collins), CANDY AND JAZZZ (Oxford University Press).Poems in Poetry Review, Ambit, Poetry Wales, Oasis, etc. Co-ordinator The Windows Project. Toured to Singapore.
"Patricia Farrell has had books published by Reality Street and Writers Forum. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies and magazines. She has also taken part in exhibitions in London, Birmingham, Portsmouth and Cologne."
Andrew Taylor is Poet-In-Residence at Liverpool Architecture and Design Trust; a PhD Student in Poetry; has had work published nationally and locally in print and on the airwaves and his first collection is due out in Summer 2003, published by Sheppard Bainbridge. Andrew has a collection due out in April titled 'Turn For Home' published by The Brodie Press (www.thebrodiepress.co.uk).
Alice Lenkiewicz: Artist/poet. Lives in Skelmersdale with her two children. Presently studying her MA in Writing Studies at Edge hill College and editing Neon Highway. Member of the poetics research group at Edge hill, she has completed her music and poetry project Men Hate Blondes and is currently working on the Adventures of Maxine, a collection of short stories and poems. She exhibits her art and has written poems and two plays, St Catherine and Wrappers.
Lester Smith writes prose fiction for the most part but has written the occasional poem over the years. His only recorded poem won a prize in the Lancaster Literature Festival. At that time he was a fifteen year-old and full of angst. He felt inspired to take up a pen full of concentrated poet’s ink after exploring and being impressed by the poetry of other writers on the Edge Hill MA programme. Cubism is an interpretation of five paintings by Picasso and is intended to be formed into a cube shape prior to reading, using as a box for keeping strong mints in or replacing misplaced dice.
Cliff Yates' collection of poems 'Henry's Clock' (Smith/Doorstop) won the Aldeburgh prize in 1999. He wrote 'Jumpstart Poetry in the Secondary School' as Poetry Society poet-in-residence, and teaches at Maharishi School in Skelmersdale where his students have won many awards for their writing.
Rupert Loydell is the Managing Editor of Stride, Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Bath University and Visiting Fellow at Warwick University. Recent books of poems include The Museum of Light [Arc], The Museum of Improvisation [Wild Honey] and two collaborative works: The Temperature of Recall, with Sheila E. Murphy; and A Hawk Into Everywhere, with Roselle Angwin.
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