Spine Volume Two : Issue Two

Welcome

New Poetry From:

John Muckle  

John Muckle was born in Kingston Upon Thames in 1954. He has worked as an editor, copywriter, lecturer, careworker, bookshop assistant, and supply teacher. His previous books include The Cresta Run (Galloping Dog Press, 1987), Cyclomotors (Festival books, 1997), Firewriting and Other Poems (Shearsman Books, 2005) and, most recently, London Brakes (a novel) (Shearsman, 2010). He initiated the Paladin Poetry list in the 1980s, and was general editor of The New British Poetry (Paladin, 1988). He is currently living in London.

Chris McCabe  

Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977. His poetry has featured in a number of magazines including Magma and Poetry Review. His first collection The Hutton Inquiry was published in 2005. He has discussed and read his poetry on BBC World Service, featured a poem on the Oxfam CD Lifelines and performs his work regularly. His most recent book, Zeppelins is published by Salt. He currently works as Joint Librarian of The Poetry Library and lives in Dagenham with his wife and son.

Simon Charlton

Simon Charlton was Educated at Closereach House, Plymouth. Croydon College, Croydon. Harris Manchester College, Oxford University.

His work has been previously published in Great Works, Equinox, Inclement, Decanto, New Hope International

Derek Henderson 

Derek Henderson is alive and well in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he lives with his wife, kids and cats. At the moment, he is glad that Gertrude Stein has the awareness to write " A little thing is in a little thing."

Jim Heavily  

Jim Heavily's most recent poems have appeared in The Salt River Review. He lives near Rolesville, North Carolina. 

Simon Howard 

Simon Howard was born in London in 1960 & educated at University College London. He has lived for a time in the Czech Republic, & now lives outside the city of his birth but near its most famous river. He has a chapbook from The Arthur Shilling Press, ZOOAXEIMPLODE, poems at Great Works & The Red Ceilings & his poem numbers can be found as an e-book here

http://issuu.com/theredceilings/docs/numbers.

Charlotte Gringras

A few years ago Charlotte gave up academic writing for the creative kind. As a late developer in creative writing terms, she nurtures her writing with varied life experiences , firmly based in her North of England feminist  roots . She has had a short play for radio broadcast,'Moving On' and poems published  in various magazines including 'Rainy City Stories',a Manchester's Website , 'Never Bury Poetry' ,and acceptances from 'Fire and 'Krax'.

Rob McClure Smith  

Robert Smith is British, although he has published mostly in U.S. literary mags (like Confrontation, Fugue, Other Voices, Story Quarterly), although in Europe too (Warwick Review, Chapman, Barcelona Review, Versal).  He is a previous winner of the Scotsman Orange Short Story Award.

Robert Leitz 

Robert Leitz has had over 500 poems published in more than one hundred journals in the U.S. and Canada, in Sweden and U.K, including Agni Review, Carolina Quarterly, Epoch, The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, The North American Review, The Ontario Review, Poetry, and Shenandoah. 

Seven collections of poems have been published, including Running in Place (L’Epervier Press,).  At Park and East Division ( L’Epervier Press,) The Lindbergh Half-century (L’Epervier Press,) The Inheritance (Sandhills Press,)  and Storm Service (Basfal Books).  Basfal also published After Business in the West: New and Selected Poems .

David Simms

David Simms was born in 1952 and currently works as an English Lecturer  at Kuala Lumpur University.  His work has been published in numerous limited edition chapbooks and broadsides. He keeps himself to himself. 

Harry Godwin

Harry Godwin runs the Arthur Shilling Press and Cleaves Journal. His work has been published in Steretcake Magazine, Onedit, Sporangiophores, Freaklung, Red Ceilings, "Intercapillary/Space" and Readings. He is currently working on a series of Experiments in Deconstruction. Some of which can be found on his blog Celery Lanes.  

Jack Seward 

Jack Seward is originally from Liverpool. He spent most of the War in a Convent outside the German City of Duisburg teaching the young girls Home Economics. He has recently been ordained Archdeacon of The Venom Laboratory and is waiting further instructions. Most of the time He would rather be left alone.

Susan Banks

Susan Banks studied painting at Croydon College of Art and cultural theory at Hull School of Art and Design. She has recently abandoned teaching both subjects in favour of life in the garden of forking paths.