d a Levy was an American poet, artist and alternative publisher, based in Cleveland Ohio, who published over 60 books, broadsides, and magazines by the time of his death in 1968.
Jack Micheline was an American poet and painter. His name is synonymous with bohemian underground writers and 'outlaw' poets. He was an innovative artist active in the New York Greenwich Village renaissance of the 1950's and 60's and later moved to San Fransisco, which he made his permanent home until the time of his death in 1998.
Richard Barrett lives in Salford. In 2009 a selection of his work appeared in the first Other Room anthology. Later on that some year the chapbook Pig Fervour was published by The Arthur Shilling Press. In 2010 Richard's first full-length collection Sidings was published by White Leaf Press. He is one of the co-organisers of the performance series Counting Backwards.
Iain Britton is from New Zealand. His books include, Hauled head First into the Leviathan, Cinnamon Press, Liquefaction, Interactive Press (Australia) and Cravings, Oystercatcher Press.
Amy De'Ath studied American Literature with Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and at Temple University in Philadelphia. Crater Press published her broadside, Andromeda / The World Works for Me. She has two books forthcoming in 2010. Her first collection, Erec and Enide, will be published by Salt in the Autumn, and a chapbook will be coming out from Oystercatcher Press later in the year. Her poetry blog can be found at www.amydeath.wordpress.com
David Rushmer lives and works in Cambridge, UK. His most recent publications are; The Family of Ghost (Arehouse, 2005) and Blanchot’s Ghost (Oystercatcher Press, 2008).
Recordings of his works are featured at ‘Archive of The Now’ website, as well as online at Great Works, Moria, and E.ratio.
Nicolas Spicer has been avoiding work in Shropshire, where he tries not to write like A.E. Houseman. He sometimes answers interesting email from interested parties sent to nicolasspicer3@googlemail.com; composers interested in making a song cycle of Winter Book would be greeted with hyperventilating enthusiasm.
Hugo Undershin is a grad student at Edinburgh University. His thesis involves the application of Kripkensteinian vs Krippgensteinian controversy to the problem of "following" the five second rule. Like the natural free gifts of Flora, his poetical garlands can only be successfully sought for where the land is uncultivated and increase of learning are sure to banish them, as the plough of the agriculturalist bears down the mountain daisy.
Chris Stephenson lives in Leeds. Is pondering the possibilities and likelihood of escape. Most recently his work has featured in the Freaklung Poetry Zine, ODES and he was fortunate enough to be able to read at the accompanying Morden Tower event in memory of Barry Macsweeney.
A small collection, Holes, can be found online, here, at The Arthur Shilling Press
Jai Llewellyn was born in London and lived in the mulit-cultural borough of Camden. He first studied at the Norwich School of Art, which has a well established figurative heritage. He went on to complete his Degree in drawing and Masters in Printmaking, both at the University of the Arts, London.
Jai now lives and works as a painter/printmaker in Scotland. Here he has learned and been inspired by the power of the
Scottish landscape.
S J Fowler has had poetry in over 50 journals, small presses and ezines since the beginning of 2010 including the Arthur Shilling Press, Zimzalla, Knives Forks and Spoons, Succour, Neon Highway, the Delinquent, Decanto, Otoliths, BlazeVox and the Poetry Salzburg Review. He is a regular reader at Bob Cobbing's Writers Forum and edits the Maintenant interview series with contemporary European poets for 3am magazine. He is also an employee of the British Museum and postgraduate student in Philosophy at the University of London.
Dave Lynch has produced and
performed live visuals since 1999 and has performed nationally in over 350 shows for people including: Cut Master Swift, Scratch Perverts, Dillinja, ANdy C, Valve Sound System, Lemon D, Dizzee
Rascal, Bad Company, DJ Hype, Roni Size to name a few. He is one of a few practicing projection bombers in the UK & is currently working on a series of projections from moving vehicles and
onto buildings. He is co-director of The Jam Jar Collective Ltd which creates interactive digital installations such as Friispray, a virtual, digital graffitti wall based on ubiquitous open
source technologies
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