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Tom Cunliffe is a multidisciplinary artist resident in Hove. His Suit of Lights is published by Pighog Press.
Chris Hardy lives in London. Original Plus published his second collection A Moment of Attention in 2008. He plays guitar and sings in the trio LiTTle MACHiNE.
Julian Moorman is a widely travelled writer and teacher.
Michael Swan is a renowned grammarian and the author of two collections of poems: When They Come For You (Frogmore Press) and The Shapes of Things (Oversteps Books).
Todd Swift was born in Montreal, now lives in London. Widely published poet and editor of numerous anthologies. Wired On Words, the Montreal label, released his spoken word CD, The Envelope, Please, created with composer Tom Walsh, in 2002.
Aprilia Zank was born in Romania, lives in Germany. A PhD student and freelance lecturer at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, she writes poetry in English and German, and translates poetry from and into English, German, French and Romanian.
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Michael Bartholomew-Biggs lives in London and
has published two full collections and several chapooks. For details see: http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/mikebartholomewbiggspage.html
With the exception of "Lapland Summer" -- which is a version
of a famous (in Finland) poem by Eino Leino -- the poems in this issue
of morphrog come from a sequence-in-progess called ‘Fred &
Blossom’, which is based on a 1930s aviation romance between the designer
and pilot F.G. Miles and his pupil Viscountess Ratendone.
Patricia James lives in Mayfield, East Sussex. She is a storyteller and reader and writer of poetry. ‘Root’ is the first of a series of poems all linked to traditional fairytales and legends.
Nancy Mattson’s third full poetry collection, Finns and Amazons, is forthcoming from Arrowhead Press in autumn 2011. Originally from Canada, she has lived in London since 1990 near the British Library, where she can indulge her occasional obsession with dictionaries and encyclopedias. See: www.poetrypf.co.uk/nancymattsonpage.html
Bob Mitchell, long-time resident of Great Cornard, Suffolk, and member of the Basset Hound Club, founded the Flexostructuralist movement at the University of Birmingham in the 1970s. His chapbook Bush Klaxon Has A Body Like A Trio Sonata was published in Crabflower Pamphlets in 1991.
Jeremy Page’s most recent collection
of poems is In and Out of the Dark Wood (HappenStance 2010).
His translations of Catullus’s Lesbia poems are published by the Ashley
Press (June 2011) as The Cost of All Desire and are available post-free
from the Frogmore Press for £5.00. See:
www.poetrypf.co.uk/jeremypagepage.shtml
Peter Stewart has worked as a journalist for most of his life, and is currently an oil consultant. Most of his poems are written on business trips. He works on the editorial board of the Frogmore Press and designs the morphrog site. He also runs the website www.polyscriptum.com which is (slowly) evolving around the theme of translation. Anyone out there want to send in any translations of poetry? polysciptum's email is: polyscriptum@gmail.com.
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Liz Adams has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her work has appeared in Iota Fiction, The Frogmore Papers, and is forthcoming in Stand. Her first collection of poems, Green Dobermans, will be published by Lazy Gramophone Press in 2011.
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs lives in London. He has retired from being a mathematician but is still working at poetry. His most recent collection is Tradesman's Exit from Shoestring Press.
Steven Fowler SJ Fowler (1983) has had poetry published in over seventy journals & magazines. He is a member of the Writers Forum poetry group, and an employee of the British Museum. He edits the Maintenant interview series for 3am magazine, introducing contemporary, experimental European poets. 2011 will see the publication of his first two collections from Veer books and the KnivesForks&Spoons press.
www.sjfowlerpoetry.com www.maintenant.co.uk
Hugh Fox is coming to the end of the line now. 78 and prostate cancer moving everywhere. But going out in glory. Just nominated for a Pulitzer Prize,
British publisher, Skylight, is publishing two novels of his, Depths and Dragons and Immortal Jaguar, Itopia is publishing his novel Fate, Ravenna is publishing a huge poetry book called The Year Book, Marsh Street is publishing a collection of short stories called Fragments, Grey Sparrow just published a collection of Portuguese-English poems (written in Brazil in Portuguese) called Approaching/Acercando.
Oliver Gozzard’s The Commuter’s Tale is published by Desert Hearts on 22 January 2011, and priced at £7.99 (€8.99). It is a thriller in verse, following in the footsteps of Lord Byron, and will be available from all good bookshops (ISBN: 978 1 898948 070) or from www.deserthearts.com
Nancy Mattson saw eggs being candled in dark Canadian barns. Since 1990 she’s been making omelettes and poems in Islington, London. See www.poetrypf.co.uk/nancymattsonpage.html
K V Skene’s work has appeared in Canadian, UK, US, Irish, Australian and Austrian magazines, most recently: The Ottawa Arts Review, The SHOp, Ekphrasis, Tears in the Fence, The Stony Thursday Book and Scintilla. Her publications include Only a Dragon and Calendar of Rain, winners of the 2002 and 2004 Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award (Canada); a chapbook, Edith (a series of poems on Nurse Edith Cavell) 2004 Flarestack Publishing (UK), Love in the (Irrational) Imperfect, 2006, Hidden Brook Press (Canada) and You Can Almost Hear Their Voices, 2010, Indigo Dreams Publications (UK). A long term expat Canadian, she currently lives in Oxford.
Sam Smith (born 1946) is a writer from in Blackpool, raised in Stoke Gabriel, Devon. He is now a self-employed writer/editor/publisher. His first novel was accepted by two publishers, both of whom folded before publication. In 1991 he discovered the Small Presses, which published his poetry, articles, short stories, novel extracts, and reviews.In 1995 he became the founding editor of The Journal of Contemporary Anglo-Scandinavian Poetry, now trading as The Journal. In 1997 his collection, To Be Like John Clare, was published by the University of Salzburg Press. Also in 1997 a shorter collection, Skin &Bones, in collaboration with the artist Lyn Sutterby, was published by Odyssey Poets. He won the 2004 SKREV prize for science fiction for novella We Need Madmen available in anthology Electric Sheep. He also runs a small press, Original Plus, which has published poetry collections.
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Liz Adams has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her work has appeared in Iota Fiction, The Frogmore Papers, and is forthcoming in Stand. Her first collection of poems, Green Dobermans, will be published by Lazy Gramophone Press in 2011.
Robert Etty was born and lives in Lincolnshire. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, most recently Half A Field’s Distance: New and Selected Poems (Shoestring 2006).
Michael Fraley lives in San Francisco, within walking distance of the zoo. His poems have been published internationally.
Susan Shingleton is a Londoner, educated at Oxford. Retired from university lecturing in the Far and Middle East, she enjoys seeing her three grown up children and their families. Her interests include writing, reading, bird-spotting and travelling.
K V Skene is a long-term expat Canadian (born in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario), resident in Oxford. Author of numerous collections of poems, including Edith (Flarestack).
Ivor C Treby chose, annotated but did not edit Uncertain Rain – Sundry Spells of Michael Field (De Blackland Press). He is also the author of several collections of poetry.
Roddy Williams lives, paints, writes and works in London. A radical atheist, his Haiku Diary of Common Sense can be found at http://hairybloke.blogspot.com/