Spine: Volume One: Issue Three

Welcome

Wayne Auty


Wayne Auty was born in 1966 in Lancaster, England, where he still lives. His poetry has been published in various journals including Envoi, Rain Dog, Anarchist Angel, the Paris Review, and The Ugly Tree.

He pays the rent with the monies made from signing autographs on behalf of a well known sports personality, who cannot be named due to a confidentiality agreement. He hates games, espacially board games, and should not be confused with the World Backgammon Champion of the same name.

Gareth Durasow

Gareth Durasow is a poet and playwright whose work is inclined towards mock lamentation and devil's advocacy. His work has appeared in Great Works, LeftLion, Pennine Ink, Shadowtrain, Unquiet Desperation and has won prizes at 2008’s Ilkley and Huddersfield literature festivals. He also writes for the acclaimed Wakefield theatre company Horizon Arts; a job that pays enough to keep him implicated in the gradual overhaul of the secondary school curriculum via specialist diplomas. After helping initiate Wakefield’s Red Shed Readings he is now collaborating with Spine to organise Letterbomb; a new live poetry venture set to take place in Leeds city centre.

Sean O'Brien


Sean O'Brien was born in London in 1952 and grew up in Hull. He has contributed reviews to the TLS and the Sunday times.

His collections, Downriver, and The Drowned Book, both won the Forward Poetry Prize for best collection in 2001 and 2007 respectively.

Described as a master of the authoritative line and a pre-eminent English poet his more recent work has been informed by his sublime translations of Dantes Inferno.

O' Brien never fails to come up for air to report on his submarine hell.

Dan Fante


We have, unfortunately, come to the last of our selection of Fante poems, so once again we are very happy to be able to present two more gems for your reading pleasure, fresh from pages of 'Kissed By A Fat Waitress'. Many thanks to Dan for his contributions.

Here at Spine we could eulogise for an age on how much we admire Fante's work but we reckon you should have pretty much got the picture by now....

We hope that you have enjoyed reading them and, if you haven't come across his work before, we hope that he has been as much of a revelation to you as he was to us the first time we picked up one of his books.

To listen and watch Fante speak about his work check out this short film.

Dan Fante : American Writer

Naomi Wrigglesworth

I was born into my introvert mind of magic and monsters on the 1st March 1983. I grew up in Wakefield, possessing an intricate alternative perception of existence that at times proved beautifully indifferent to my surrounding environment.

I have a science & humanities A level education, consisting of Core Biology, Psychology, Counselling and Sociology.

In 2008 I graduated with a 1st class Fine Art Degree.

I am currently based in Leeds & studying a BA Honours Degree in Contemporary Creative Practices.

The core themes in my work have been inspired by a diversity of practitioners & theories, including Artists Christian Marclay & Christian Boltanski, The Quay brothers. Sounds by Kate Bush, The Cure, Some writings by Charles Baudelaire, John Berger, areas of psychology such as psychophysics & Gestalt laws of perception & Spiritualism.


Exhibitions

2008 'Identity'. Sagar Gallery, Castleford

2007 'Bodies in the mine'. Mine Bar, Leeds

Experience

2008 Photography & design for 'JP Design & Development'

2008 Art catalogue design & production for group exhibition 'Identity', Sagar Gallery, Castleford.

2007-2008 Worked with the NHS & Consort - Artwork design preposals for the new Pontifract & Wakefield hospitals.

2006-2007 Worked as part of the technical team for the infamous artist Andy Goldsworthy in Yorkshire Sculpture Parks biggest ever installation project.

2006 Front cover artwork for the international creative writing magazine 'Unquiet Desperation'.

'No Ideas but in Things' (a list for David Boll)
 

So much depends on a magazine editors ability to take the time to extrapolate meaning in the work that you have sent in...

Maybe...
 
It's even better when, after clearly not bothering, they take the time to give you some feedback and to fill you in on exactly what good poetry isn't...

Maybe...