Spine Volume Two : Issue One

Welcome

Brand new work from

John Wilkinson

John Wilkinson is Research Professor at the University of Notre Dame where he teaches literature and creative writing, having worked in UK mental health services for three decades. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, and Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Fellow at the National Humanities Center. The Guardian described  the collection Lake Shore Drive (Salt 2006), as “multiplex, visionary, ragged, and exceedingly strange because exceedingly true to reality” His published work also includes Proud Flesh (Salt 2005), Iphigenia (Barque 2004) Contrivances (Salt 2003), Effigies Against the Light (Salt 2001), and Oort's Cloud, (Barque/Subpress Collective 1999). His most recent book of poems is Down to Earth (Salt, 2008).

Simon Barraclough

Simon Barraclough was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire but has lived in London for 12 years. He won the poetry section of the London Writers' Competition in 2000 and has been published widely in magazines such as Poetry Review, The Manhattan Review, Time Out and the Financial Times. His work has also been broadcast several times on BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3, on The Verb and the Film Programme. 

His collection of pems Los Alamos Mon Amour was Shortlisted for the Forward Prize, Best First Collection. Los Alamos Mon Amour unleashes a chain reaction of intense, moving, erotic and often darkly comical poems that veer from the terrifying to the tender, the comic to the apocalyptic, the lustful to the philosophical, and the cosmic to the domestic. Published by Salt.

Ian Duhig

Ian Duhig was born in London, and has published five poetry collections: The Bradford Count(1991), short listed for the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection); The Mersey Goldfish (1995), short listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize; Nominies (1998), named as one of the 1998 Sunday Times Poetry Books of the Year, and receiving a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation; Lammas Hireling (2003), a Poetry Book Society Choice and short listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year); and The Speed of Dark (2007), short listed for the 2007 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2007 Costa Poetry Award. 

Cyndi Dawson

International Word Rocker and spoken word artist Cyndi Dawson (one half of the Dawson/Scott duo) is a well travelled Artist and Curator of the world-respected poetry and music venue 'Poets and Angels Music and Poetry Series'. She has worked as an actress in TV and Film and as a Performance Artist whose work with Venezualen, Soho based artist Rene was well received in the 1980's. Cyndi has stood in for Madonna, appeared on Law and Order, Advil commercials and numerous films and TV series. Cyndi's poetry has been published in many, many anthologies and publications such as 'Heroin Love Songs',''Deep Tissue Magazine', 'Off Beat Pulp', 'Breadcrumb Scabs', The Phlebian Rag' '63 Channels', 'The Skyline 2009 Review','The Aquarian', 'Images of the Mystic Truth', 'Gloom Cupboard', 'Light Trauma', 'Journey of the 'Poet/Prophet', Poetz and 'The Livingston medium'. Her spoken word has been featured in the 'Going Down Swinging' CD and has been heard on radio stations around the world. She has been featured in The Pulse Entertainment Magazine, The Star Ledger, The Home News Tribune and The Reporter. She is the author of two books of poetry, 'Dream Sequences' and 'Inside of Outside. She has read all over NY/NJ at venues such as The Bowery Poetry Cafe in NYC, Cornelia Street Pub, NYC; Grassroots Arts Facility in Jersey City; Tribal Spears Gallery in Harlem, NYC and St. Marks Church in NYC. She recently read at the Poetry Cafe in London, Maggies Bar in Stoke-Newington and the King Henry VI in Eton and at Feile in Dublin, Ireland. Cyndi is currently working on a second CD with RK Scott. Stay tuned!

Carlomar Arcangel Daoana

Based in Manila, Philippines, Carlomar Arcangel Daoana is the author of the poetry collections, Marginal Bliss(University of the Philippines Press, 2002) and The Fashionista’s Book of Enlightenment(forthcoming). As a journalist, Daoana edited two shelter magazines, Condo Central and AREA. He now writes about art and design in his column “Art Object” for Manila Bulletin. His poems have appeared in Oyster Boy Review.

Peycho Kanev

Peycho Kanev loves to listen to sad music while he drinks slowly his beer. His work has been published in Gloom Cupboard,Off Beat Pulp, Nerve Cowboy,Chiron Review,Outsider Writers,Mad Swirl, Side of Grits, Southern Ocean Review, The Houston Literary Review and many others. He loves to put the word down and not talking on the cell phone. He is nominated for Pushcart Award. He lives in Chicago. His new collaborative collection "r", containing poetry by him and Felino Soriano, as well as photography from Duane Locke and Edward Wells II is now available here

Ernest Williamson III

Ernest Williamson III has published poetry and visual art in over 220 online and print journals. He is a self-taught pianist and painter. His poetry has been nominated three times for the Best of the Net Anthology. He holds the B.A. and the M.A. in English/Creative Writing/Literature from the University of Memphis. Ernest is an English Professor at Essex County College. Professor Williamson is also a Ph.D. Candidate at Seton Hall University in the field of Higher Education Leadership. Visit his gallery

Felino A. Soriano

Felino A. Soriano (b. 1974, California), is a case manager and advocate for developmentally and physically disabled adults. He has authored 15 collections of poetry, including “Altered Aesthetics” (ungovernable press, 2009), “Construed Implications” (erbacce-press, 2009), “Compositions of Integrated Commonalities” (Recycled Karma Press, 2009), and “Various Angles of the Interpretation Paradigm” (Shadow Archer Press, 2009). He edits & publishes Counterexample Poetics, www.counterexamplepoetics.com, an online journal of experimental artistry, and Differentia Press, www.differentiapress.com, dedicated to publishing e-chapbooks of experimental poetry. He is also a contributing editor for Sugar Mule, www.sugarmule.com, and contributing editor for Post: A Journal of Thought and Feeling, www.postjournalofthoughtandfeeling.com. Philosophical studies collocated with his love of classic and avant-garde jazz explains motivation for poetic occurrences. His website explains further: www.felinoasoriano.info/. 

Adam Moorad

Adam’s writing has recently appeared or is forthcoming in 3 A.M. Magazine, Johnny America, PANK, Storyglossia, and Underground Voices. His story "Star Spangled Enterprise" is/was a nominees for Best of the Net 2009. He is the author of an ebook, The Nurse and The Patient (Pangur BanParty 2009)

He lives in Brooklyn and works in publishing. Visit him here:

http://adamadamadamadamadam.blogspot.com 

Chris Hardy

Chris Hardy has been writing poetry for a long time. Poems have appeared in numerous magazines including Poetry Review, Stand, the North, The Rialto, Smith’s Knoll, Tears in the Fence, Acumen and many others. Some have won prizes, for example in the National Poetry Society’s and London Writers’ poetry competitions, and a poem highly commended by the judges is in the 2009 Forward Prize Anthology. 

A new collection,‘A Moment Of Attention’ was published on August 30, 2008 by Original Plus Press.

The unifying quality of the work is the unflinching eye with which he regards his subjects, (Jeremy Page, Frogmore Papers).

His poems have a vision that veers from the tender to the brutal and blunt, (David Caddy, Tears In The Fence).

To find oit more visit http://www.myspace.com/mrchrishardy 

Geoff Stevens 

Geoff Stevens is  a long-time poet, and editor of Purple Patch poetry magazine since 1976. His poetry has been published in some 700 different magazine titles worldwide. More information is available at www.geoffstevens.co.uk

David Trame

David Trame is an Italian teacher of English. He has been writing exclusively in English since 1993. His poems have appeared in magazines since 1999.
His poetry collection “Re-emerging” was published  by  www.gattopublishing.com in 2006.

PLUS:

Broadsides from Vladimir Korsakoff, Alison Faulds and Chris Stephenson

Artwork from Ernest Williamson III, and Stephen Emmerson