Derek Adams
website
Derek
Adams
email derek@theadamsresidence.co.uk
born 1957, Walthamstow, London. Studied Photography at
Paddington College, London, 1974-77 and has been earning
his living as a photographer ever since. Moved to Essex
in 1985, joined the Southend Poetry Group. One of
the organisers of the Essex Poetry Festival since 2002. http://come.to/the-essex-poetry-festival
Widely published in magazines including Acumen,
Boomerang, Black October (US), The Interpreters
House, Magma, Moonstone, Obsessed With Pipework, Orbis,
Other Poetry, Poetry Monthly, Purple Patch, Read The
Music, Red Lamp, Seam, Smith's Knoll, Tears In The Fence,
Verse Libre (US) and in anthologies A Dress of Nettles
(Ragged Raven Press 2004), Off The Wall - Anthology of
Comic Verse (2003), The Sensitively Thin Bill of the Shag
(Biscuit Publishing 2003), Saturday Night Desperate
(Ragged Raven Press 2003), Uno (Comrades Press 2002).
First collection 'Postcards to Olympus' was the winner of
the Poetry Monthly Booklet competition 2004.
Has performed poetry at a variety of venues including,
the Leigh Folk Festival, Essex Poetry Festival, Poetry
Cafe, Cabaret Voltaire, Troubadour and run poetry
workshops at the Essex Poetry Festival & London South
Bank University.
Ashley
Alquine
Ashley Alquine lives in Arizona with her 4 daughters
and her husband. She has been writing as long as she can
remember. She is 35 and was originally from California.
When she is not writing, she's busy doing puppetry and
clowning, video production, web design, home-schooling,
and running a poetry club. She publishes the e-mail
newsletter Poetic Ramblings.
Published a group of poem in the e publication
"Runes Rag" in 1994. Published
"Painting" in 1998 in the poetry journal La
Chuparosa. Helped to open the Desert Sage branch of
the Phoenix Public Library in 1998 with a poetry reading.
Vice President of the Arizona State Poetry Society.
Published her book "Sparrow in the Snow" with
the publisher Iuniverse.com.
Paul Amphlett
Editor:
Peer
Poetry Magazine
26 Arlington
House, Bath St., Bath, Somerset BA1 1QN
Paul Amphlett
is the editor of Peer Poetry Magazine which has been in
constant publication since 1992. A recent
interview in Poetry Kit Magazine can be found here. (291004)
(update Dec 2007) Sadly my wife,
Jane died at the beginning of June last. She was brilliant at
fashioin and interior decorating and wrote some very compelling
haiku.
She also helped me in many ways with
criticism and proof-reading. Since I have been completing and
finally revising a selection of my haiku since 1992, when I started
getting deeply into it - publication as an Ebook in the earlier part
of next year through Lulu.com. I am also revising a science fiction
novel and later an anthology of my conventional poetry. I thought I
had better get on as one never knows when the grim reaper will call,
though I am at present a healthy 83. It is pleasant to mention my
efforts being awarded by becoming 1st runner-up in the World Haiku
Club competition for an International Prize The R.H.Blythe Memorial
Prize for 2007- won this year by E Berry of New Zealand - already
prominent over there and appearing in magazines world-wide. Also, I
have recently been appointed moderator of the World Haiku Club's
Newcomers Group - which I must admit is full right up with
newcomers - so don't apply till the second half of April 2008.
Steve
Anderson
UK Poet - not to be confused with the writer by the same
name in the USA.
34, Mossbrook Court, 2 Kentford Drive, Collyhurst,
Manchester, M40 7RE, United Kingdom.
Steve Anderson has been out and proud for more years
than he cares to remember. Winner of the coveted school
prize for poetry in his last year, he has been writing
seriously for publication since 1991. He won the 6th
Commonword Poetry Slam with a poem about kd lang's
Constant Craving. An appearance on Granada TV frightened
the life out of him while, appearing live at a
Candlelight Vigil in front of more than 5,000, didn't
faze him in the slightest. Steve has been published in a
large variety of journals, winners anthologies and
established poetry magazines. A non-Catholic, his work
has even appeared in The Catholic Times. He now lives in
central Manchester where, after a bit of a break, he is
back to reading and writing lots of poetry. He currently
has in the order of sixty poems looking for an
appropriate publisher.
Winner of the BSPG Poetry competition 1996. Winner of the
6th Commonword Poetry Slam. Winner of the Cherrybite
Publications Anthology competition [129 entrants] 1998.
Pamphlet: "Bitter Almonds" - published by
BigBear Publications in 1995 - now out of print.
Anthology: "Alchemy Of Passion: Knaresborough and
Mother Shipton in Poems" - published by BigBear
Publications in 1998 - copies available on-line from
Amazon Books at
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/1900026023/qid=1064150989/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_0_2/026-2490842-1662003
or direct from the poet at Ŗ6.00 each inc p&p.
Pamphlet: "Working A Way Through" - published
by Cherrybite in 1999 - now out of print.
See a selection from "Alchemy Of Passion" and
"Working A Way Through" plus newer work at http://www.zen13221.zen.co.uk/poetry.htm
He is happy to give a little help and encouragement to
both new and established poets and to review new
collections and poetry journals for the Internet so long
as a hard copy is sent and he is allowed to keep the
collection afterwards.
Caron
Andregg
organisation: Poetry Calendar
8288 Gilman Drive, #45 La Jolla, CA USA 92037
phone:619-638-0086
fax: 619-638-0086
Caron Andregg lives and writes in Southern California
with her husband and two cats, where she also runs her
own media research company.
Her poems have been published in Spillway, Zero City,
Minotaur, The Olympia Review, Impetus, Talus & Scree,
Sheila-Na-Gig, and Rattle among many others
and on the Internet in Gravity, Poetry Cafe, Zero
City, Spokenwar and elsewhere.
Achievements: Publisher of the annual Poetry Calendar
which features new poems form 53 contemporary wirters.
Winner of an Honarbel Mention in the First Annual
Internet Litterary Arts Contest for her poem "Ripe".
Aurora
Antonovic
Aurora Antonovic is a Canadian freelance writer,
visual artist, and the former co-editor and columnist for
the now-defunct GT Times. Her poetry has recently
appeared in Thunder Sandwich, Megaera, Makarta, Little
Acorn, The Moriarity Papers, Sidewalk's End, and Poetic
Voices, where she was Featured Poet for May 2003.
Further information, including works of Aurora's, can be
found on the following links:
http://poetryarchive.bravepages.com/ABCD/antonovic.html
http://members.tripod.com/pwpj0/id579.htm
Keith Armstrong
organisation: Northern Voices
93 Woodburn Square, Whitley Bay, Tyne &
Wear NE26 3JD
phone/fax: 0191 2529531
Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, where he has worked as a
community development worker, poet, librarian and
publisher, Keith Armstrong is coordinator of the Northern
Voices creative writing and community publishing project
which specialises in recording the experiences of people
in the North East of England. He has organised several
community arts festivals in the region and many literary
events featuring the likes of Yevgeny Yevtushenko,
Douglas Dunn, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Katrina Porteous, Ian
McMillan, Edward Bond, Edwin Morgan, Uwe Kolbe, Attila
the Stockbroker, Adrian Mitchell, Jackie Kay, Frank
Messina, Benjamin Zephaniah and Liz Lochhead.
He was founder of Ostrich poetry magazine, Poetry North
East, Tyneside Writers' Workshop, Tyneside Poets, East
Durham Writers' Workshop, Tyneside Trade Unionists for
Socialist Arts, Tyneside Street Press and the Strong
Words and Durham Voices community publishing series. He
has recently compiled and edited books on the Durham
Miners' Gala and on the former mining communities of
County Durham and the market town of Hexham.
He was a libriarian at Newcastle University, Blyth Public
Library, International Research and Development Company
(I.R.D.,Newcastle), Merz & McLellan Consulting
Engineers (Killingworth), Gateshead College and
Sunderland Libraries, before becoming a community worker
with Newcastle Neighbourhood Projects (part of Community
Projects Foundation), research worker with Tyneside
Housing Aid Centre, and then Community Arts Development
Worker (1980-6) with Peterlee Community Arts (later East
Durham Community Arts).
As an industrial librarian at I.R.D., he was christened
'Arts & Darts' , organising an events programme in
the firm incuding poetry readings, theatrical
productions, and art exhibitions by his fellow workers,
as well as launching Ostrich poetry magazine using the
firm's copying facilities and arranging darts matches
between departments!
He has been a self-empoyed writer since 1986 and he is
currently studying for a PhD on the work of Newcastle
writer Jack Common at the University of Durham where he
received a BA Honours Degree in Sociology in 1995 and
Masters Degree in 1998 for his studies on regional
culture in the North East of England.
He was Year of the Artist 2000 poet-in-residence at
Hexham Races, working with painter Kathleen Sisterson. He
has also held residencies in Durham, Easington,
Sedgefield, Derwentside, Teesdale, Wear Valley,
Chester-le-Street and Sunderland.
His poetry has been extensively published in magazines
such as New Statesman, Poetry Review, Dreamcatcher, Other
Poetry, Iron, Sand, The Poetry Business, and Poetry
Scotland, as well as in the collections The Jingling
Geordie, Dreaming North (with Graeme Rigby), Pains of
Class and Imagined Corners, on cassette, LP & CD, and
on radio & TV. He has also written for music-theatre
productions, including O'er the Hills (with Dreaming
North - Graeme Rigby, Rick Taylor, Paul Flush, Joan McKay
and Keith Morris, with guest Kathryn Tickell,) and
Wor Jackie (with Mike Kirkup) (1988) for
Northumberland Theatre Company; Pig's Meat (1997 &
2000) for Bruvvers Theatre Company; and The Roker Roar
(1998) for Monkwearmouth Youth Theatre Company. Other
commissioned work includes Fire & Brimstone (with
Linda France, Paul Flush and others) (1989) and The
Hexham Celebration (with Paul Flush and others) (1992),
both for the Hexham Abbey Festival; Suite for the River
Wear (with Dreaming North) (1989) for BBC Radio; and The
Little Count (with Andy Jackson and Benny Graham) (1993)
for Durham County Council.
He won the Kate Collingwood Bursary Award in 1986. He was
the Judge for the Sid Chaplin Short Story Awards in 2000.
He has performed his poetry on several occasions at the
Edinburgh Fringe Festival and at Festivals in Bradford,
Cardiff, Cheltenham, Durham, Greenwich, Lancaster, and
throughout the land. He has also toured to the former
Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Iceland (incuding readings with
Peter Mortimer during the Cod War), Denmark, France,
Germany, Spain, Sweden, Czech Republic and The
Netherlands.
He has long pioneered cultural exchanges with Durham's
twinning partners, particularly Tuebingen and Nordenham
in Germany and Ivry-sur-Seine and Amiens in France, as
well as with Newcastle's Dutch twin-city of Groningen. In
fact, he has visited Tuebingen some 28 times since he
first spent a month there in November 1987 as
poet-in-residence supported by Durham County Council and
the Kulturamt, and he has performed his poetry in the
city's Hoelderlin Tower and as part of the annual Book
Festival. He has arranged for writers such as Katrina
Porteous, Julia Darling, Michael Standen, Alan C. Brown
and Linda France to join him in Tuebingen. In 2002, he
visited New York City to give readings with the aid of a
Northern Arts Award ad he will be returning there in
2004. He has also won Northern Arts Awards to visit
Berlin in 1990 and in 2001 to pursue his studies of Dutch
regional culture. His travels to Denmark, Germany,
Holland and Sweden have also been supported by the
British Council. He often works and travels with
folk-musicians from North East England, including Jez
Lowe, Marie Little, Chris Ormston and George Welch, and
he has written the lyrics for an album, 'Bleeding
Sketches', by folk-rock band The Whisky Priests,
with whom he has toured extensively in The Netherlands.
He has also visited the European Parliament in Strasbourg
to perform his poetry with musicians Pete Challoner and
Ian Carr. He has recently inspired songs by Jez Lowe and
by Joseph Porter of Blyth Power.
Though a regionalist inspired by the landscape of his
birth, he is very much a European and his work is much
influenced by writers such as Hoelderlin, Hesse, Brecht,
Baudelaire, Prevert, Esenin, and Mayakovsky.
Penny Ashton, The Hot Pink Poet
website -
www.hotpink.co.nz
Since abandoning a career in ballet due to her pesky need to eat Penny
Ashton has become a poet, improviser, actor, writer, publicist,
producer, voice over artist and comedienne. She has performed her
comedy poetry all over her native New Zealand as well as in Singapore,
England, Scotland, Canada, USA and Australia, and she was a member of
the victorious New Zealand team at the 2003
Improvaganza Master’s of the Universe Tournament in Edmonton,
Canada. Her acting credits include various stage,
TV and short film productions and her voice can be heard masquerading as
various characters from lesbian puppets to Power Rangers’ monsters
ATTILA THE
STOCKBROKER
http://www.attilathestockbroker.com
Poetry Kit Site Award *****
attila@solutionsinc.co.uk
Sharp tongued, high energy, social surrealist rebel poet
and songwriter. Inspired by the spirit and the Do It
Yourself ethos of punk rock, and above all by The
Clash and their overtly radical, political stance, Attila
started performing in 1980, blagging spots for his poems
and songs in between bands at punk gigs. He quickly got a
couple of John Peel radio sessions, a deal with London
independent label Cherry Red Records and before very long
was on the cover of Melody Maker...and he hasnšt
looked back since! Attila has spent the last 24
years performing his work across the world at
literary and music festivals, rock venues, arts
centres, pubs, universities, schools, folk clubs and punk
squats in the UK, Australia, Germany, Switzerland,
Canada, New Zealand, the US, Poland, Italy,
Hungary, Scandinavia, Holland, Belgium, Austria and the
Basque Country - and more improbably in Romania, Bulgaria
and a hotel basement in Stalinist Albania. His themes are
topical, his words hard-hitting, his politics radical,
but Attila will make you roar with laughter as well as
seethe with anger......
He's very proud of the fact that he has earned a living
as a poet since 1982.
He can, and does, gig just about everywhere: hešs
created his own global network, and organises most of his
hundred plus performances a year himself, as well as
running regular spoken word/music events and two
festivals. As well as all his solo gigs, where
during his songs he accompanies himself on mandola,
Attila plays violin, bass guitar and a variety of early
music
instruments and from time to time gigs with his band....
BARNSTORMER
an energetic and unique mixture of early music and punk!
Attila and the band have 4 songs and live footage in a
major German feature film, DoppelPack which was
released across the German cinema network on August 17
2000. His third album with Barnstormer, Zero Tolerance
was released in April 2004, following on from Just
One Life (2000) and The Siege of Shoreham
(1996) In addition to his new solo album Live in
Belfast Attila currently has two solo Best Of
CDs on release, Poems Ancient and Modern (A Live
Anthology 1980-1999) which is his definitive spoken
word release to date, and The Pen & The Sword
(Selected Songs 1981-1995) which documents his best songs
up until the formation of his
band, now the main vehicle for his
songwriting. Attila has published 4 books of
poems:
Cautionary Tales for Dead Commuters (Unwin, 1985)
Scornflakes
(Bloodaxe, 1992)
The Rat Tailed
Maggot (Roundhead, 1998)
Goldstone
Ghosts (2001, see below)
Having battled for years to help save his beloved
Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club, he's now
Poet in Residence and matchday DJ/PA announcer, and
reads his poems over the tannoy before home matches in
addition to announcing teams and half time scores (and
playing punk rock!) A new book of all the best football
poems he has written, entitled
Goldstone Ghosts was published on Sept 22nd 2001 -
the centenary of Brighton & Hove Albion FC.
Marc
Awodey
Rhombus Gallery/Artspace at 186 College St., Burlington,
Vermont
Phone: 802.865-9603
e-mail: rawodey@together.net
Poems by Marc Awodey (11/4/60) of Burlington, Vermont
have appeared in approx. 150 publications including:
(print) Writer's Journal, Humanitas, Defined Providence,
Poetry Motel, Yamimono (Japan), Afterthoughts(Canada),
Axxion (Agrentina); Internet: Recursive Angel, Brooklyn
Poet, Poetry Cafe, The New Voice, Southern Ocean Review,
Webgeist, Glossolalia, and many others. Collected works
have appeared in four chapbooks, seven
"minimalist" editions, the 1999 Poetry Calender
(CAC Communications, Laguna Beach CA) and In Their Own
Words: voices of generation X (MWE publisher, Raleigh
NC). He has been a featured reader at the New England
Artist's Trust Congress in Newport NH; National Writer's
Union/Vermont local 1998 symposium, the Baggot Inn in
Greenwich Village NYC; Mobius, Boston MA; The Middle
East, Cambridge, MA; and many other venues. His works
have been "netcast" on C.B.C. radio, Go Poetry!
and other programs. As co-founder of THE MINIMAL PRESS,
he has distributed tens of thousands of folding books
worldwide, and has installed nine poetry vending machines
accross New England. Awodey's visual arts criticism has
appeared in Seven Days, Art New England, Burlington
Magazine and several electronic publications. He received
the John P. Donoghue Award for Art Critisicm in 1998.
Director, Rhombus Gallery/Artspace in Burlington. MFA
(painting) Cranbrook Academy of Art 1984; BFA Johnson
State College, 1982; B.Phil, Grand Valley State
University 1980. Winner of the 2000 Poetry Slam National
Haiku Competition.
His collection-
TELEGRAMS FROM THE PSYCH WARD AND OTHER POEMS, isbn
0-9658903-4-1 (101 pages, perfect bound, WPC-Minimal
Press 1999; $10) is available through Amazon.com and many
bookstores in Vermont and New Hampshire.
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