contributors
Steve Cartwright
Steve has done art for several magazines, newspapers, websites, commercial and governmental clients, books, and tavern napkins. He also creates art pro bono for several animal rescue groups. He was awarded the 2004 James Award for his cover art for Champagne Shivers. He recently illustrated the Cimarron Review cover. Take a gander ( or a goose ) at his online gallery: www.angelfire.com/sc2/cartoonsbycartwright
Caterina Davinio
Italian techno artist, writer, curator, pioneer in computer poetry since 1990. Her work has featured in more than 100 exhibitions world wide, among them the Venice Biennial (editions since 1997). She has published a range of work including Techno-Poetry and Virtual Realities, (essay, Sometti Publisher, Mantova Municipality, 2002), a novel Color Color (Campanotto Publisher, IT, 1998), plus texts in catalogues and poems and computer poems in international reviews and anthologies. To know more: http://space.tin.it/arte/cprezi/caterinadav.html
Ian M. Emberson
Writer and artist - study of Charlotte Bronte to be published by the Bronte Society in the autumn of 2005.
Bruno Fracas
Bruno Fracas is an artist working in the medium of photomontage. He is currently preparing a series of works concerned with the human body and authoritarianism, exploring the links and parallels between sexual and political bondage, informed by the theories of Wilhelm Reich.
Rachel Heavens
Rachel is an up and coming artist living in Brighton.
Her background is theatrical design, but her passion is to paint. She paints
from the heart and says about her work: "The more I paint the more I realise
that I am simply a vehicle to
manifest and deliver magical images to this earth and through creating the work
I am transformed and my life transforms around me. My paintings guide me to
where I need to be next, like messengers of the soul, nature the cosmos or
perhaps even God. My work is not religious but naturally spiritual." Rachel is
desperate to paint full time and is looking for sponsorship.
Stephen Mead
Stephen is a published artist/writer living in north eastern New York.
M. Shanna Moore
M. Shanna Moore is an artist living in the United States.
Annika Reed
Annika has an MA in Media Arts and is a practising artist available for commissions. She lives in Newcastle where she delivers workshops on photograms and pinhole photography. See her work at: http://annika.everis.net
Ailis Ni Riain
Ailis Ni Riain is an Irish composer, writer and devisor based in Manchester, UK. She combines her interests as a composer/performer, writer and director to produce works which explore fully her artistic interests. Ailis is particularly interested in cross-discipline collaboration, live art, music-theatre and presenting contemporary music in diverse environments. Since 1999 she has been represented by the Contemporary Music Centre of Ireland www.cmc.ie Her first poetry-play THE FALLING will be performed at Manchester's 24:7 Theatre Festival July 2005. www.ailis.info
Wy Dot Com
Like, not the yoof I once was, yeh? But I reckon I can still cut the mustard,
but keep off the curry.
Just hope they come up with a cure for hair loss sooner than not, yeh? It's not,
like, I'm a monk, yeh? See what I mean: not religious, like, but my god this
can't go on. Shave it! Sod that! And look like everyone else? Nah...it's the
Abraham Lincoln pigtail stays, like.
So, living in Yorkshire UK (geddit?: yuk?); some previous life pay-back; and,
well, I get by, I guess. These days is that enough?
What more do you want?
What do you people want from me?
Christopher Mulrooney
Christopher Mulrooney has written poems and translations in Aesthetica, Saw, West47, Brittle Star, The Drunken Boat, and Voices Israel, criticism in The Film Journal and Small Press Review, and a volume of poetry called notebook and sheaves.
Michael Murray
lives in east Cheshire with his family. Oh, and a
plentiful host of creatures known as pets but are more like friends. These
include crows, rabbits, chinchilla... You get the picture. Do you also get: no
exotic holidays abroad; no money but a friendly vet...?
Michael Murray wishes to thank Tom Jenks for the chance to look outside this
cosy life to the peopled world once in a while.
Ricardo Reis
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me this exquisite
opportunity for introducing moi: flaneur and cosmopolitan aesthete; at home
equally in the boudoir of Llewlyn-Bowen, as the inter-changing rooms of the Old
Vic (and. believe me, I have tried them both. Several times.).
O wrap me in your crinolines my farthingale girl. Yes, ladies-man for the
estimable John Betjeman. I admit it now: where he did the work it was oneself
got the girl.
Although originally from Lisbon (my dears, to know Lisbon in the old days!) and
born southern Africa, my perambulations occaisionally allow me a moments'
respite between pages of crispest cream vellum. Or as sop to your modern world,
the flickery-flick of a vdu.
Alas I must fly at last, and so, dear friends, allow me this last toodle-oo.