Howard Camner
10440 S.W. 76th Street, Miami, Florida 33173 USA
phone: (305) 595-9972
website: Howard Camner

Recognized as the most widely published poet in South Florida, Camner has published 1,400 poems since 1976. He also has the distinction of having been the youngest poet nominated for a Poet Laureateship in the country (Florida, 1980). Camner currently represents the United States in the Poet 2000 Sculpted Library exhibition in Dublin.

Steve Carroll
the spoken word foundation
77 Sneinton Boulevard, Nottingham NG2 4FD
phone: 0115 958 0428
e-mail: steve@theresa76.freeserve.co.uk

31 year old writer of poetry (in various forms) and short stories. Lived and worked variously.
Performed widely in London and Midlands over last nine years. Publication in various magazines.
Interests: Eclectic. And football.

Arthur Chappell

E-Mail - arthur@chappell7300.freeserve.co.uk
Arthur's MY Space blogs - http://www.myspace.com/56954240.
Website www.arthurchappell.clara.net/contents.htm
Publications list http://www.arthurchappell.clara.net/publications.htm

Born in Manchester England  on 9/2/1962.  Arthur has a  degree in literature and philosophy. He was brainwashed into a cult which he escaped from
in  1985, .  He is a Secular Humanist who writes  to prove that he is more than just a cult victim.  He has several articles, poems and stories in
print as well as his website and has issued a very successful audio CD of his poetry, called "Bard For Life".     He has also produced a book of poetry and
short stories, "Dreams Take Flight".  Arthur is currently, a member of the Sealed Knot English Civil War Re-enactment Society,  which he serves as a
pikeman on the field of battle.
 

Debjani Chatterjee
11 Donnington Road, Sheffield, S Yorkshire, UK S2 2RF

Achievements: Poetry collections include: 1) I Was That Woman (Hippopotamus Press, Frome, 1989; and Writers Workshop, Kolkata, 1997); also published as Cette Femme La.../I Was That Woman, a bi-lingual edition from L'Harmattan, Paris, 2000. 2) The Sun Rises in the North (Smith/Doorstop, Huddersfield, 1991). 3) A Little Bridge (Pennine Pens, Hebden Bridge, 1997). 4) Albino Gecko (University of Salzburg, Salzburg, 1998). 4) Animal Antics (Pennine Pens, Hebden Bridge, 2000), a collection for children, illustrated by the author and with a foreword by Poet Laureate Andrew Motion.
Debjani has also edited several poetry anthologies, including The Redbeck Anthology of British South Asian Poetry (Redbeck Press, Bradford, 2000), described in Poetry Review as being "of historic import". She has also edited several bilingual anthologies of poetry and prose, including Barbed Lines (BWSG Book Project, Sheffield, 1990) which won the first Raymond Williams Community Publishing Prize in 1990. Her numerous books for children include: The Elephant-Headed God & Other Hindu Tales (Lutterworth, 1989), selected for Children's Books of the Year in 1990. She has won prizes in various poetry competitions including the Lancaster Litfest Open Poetry Competition, Peterloo Poets Open Poetry competition and Southport Writers Circle Open Poetry Competition. Debjani won a Yorkshire & Humberside Arts Writer's Award in 1995.

Helen Clare
85 Park Road, Leyton, London E10 7BZ
website: www.helenaclare.themutual.net

Born 1965. Been writing for several years. Recently moved to London from the North West of England. Tutor for Lancaster University, Department of Distance Learning's on-line Creative Writing Course.
Recently graduated from Lancaster University's MA programme. Published in Faber's First Pressings, Rialto, Smoke, The Interpreters House and other small magazines. Also joint pamphlet, "What a Performance" with John Carley and Christine Potter. Won prizes in Lancaster Litfest and Yorkshire Open Poetry Competition.
Besides writing, I have an unhealthy interest in cricket, food and classical music (I play the recorder).

Mandy Coe

website - www.mandycoe.com

Mandy Coe's work has been featured on Woman's Hour, Poetry Please and BBC television and published in the Radio Times, The Guardian and ‘101 Poems to Save Your Life’ (Harper Collins). Her collections include Pinning the Tail on the Donkey (Spike 2000) and The Weight of Cows (Shoestring Press 2005), a poem from which is included in the Forward Book of Poetry 2005.

Her work for children is anthologised by Oxford University Press, Pearson Education and Bloomsbury and her latest book, co-written with poet Jean Sprackland is, 'Our thoughts are bees: Writers Working with Schools (Wordplay Press 2005) can be ordered at www.wordplaypress.com

Mandy is based in the North West. Her last community project at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the 2004 International Poetry Festival. She is available for readings and workshops.

Jez Colclough
Ivy Cottage, Lymes Rd., Butterton, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire. ST5 4DR, UK

Email: jezcolclough@justso.fsnet.co.uk
Website: http://www.justso.fsnet.co.uk/

Born Jeremy David Colclough, 1973, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. Graduated with a 1st Class Hon's in English & Drama from St. Martins College, Lancaster in 1995. Currently completing MA in Creative Writing at Bretton Hall. His poetry has been published by Staple New Writing and Framework Press. He was placed 3rd (Joint) in the Northern New Writers Award for poetry 1997. While living in Barnsley in 1996 he became a member of the Pennine Poets and is currently the assistant editor of the Pennine Platform.

Geraldine Collinge
Apples and Snakes
Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, London SW11 5TN
phone: 0171 924 3410
fax: 0171 924 3763

Programmer at Battersea Arts Centre, developing live literature programme as well as theatre. Director Apples and Snakes 1998 onwards. Freelance theatre producer. Interests: Live literature, theatre, cinema, food

Bob Cooper
16 Windsor Crescent, Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough TS7 0AN
phone: 01642 315431

Author of five collections of poems: Bruised Echoes (Outposts, 1977), Light From The Upper Left (Smith Doorstop, 1994), Beyond Liathach (Tears In The Fence, 1995), Drinking Up Time (Redbeck Press, 1997) and The Ideal Overcoat (Jackson's Arm, 1998). He has also written Making Poems, A Guidebook (Incredible Press, 1999).
He has had articles published in Epworth Review, has contributed articles to local and weekly newspapers, and written about fell-running, rock-climbing, and mountaineering for various outdoor journals and magazines.
He has won numerous Poetry Prizes including The Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition (in 1993/94), The Tears In The Fence Pamphlet Competition (in 1994/95), the Redbeck Press Pamphlet Competition (in 1996/97), and then the Jackson's Arm Pamphlet Competition and the Dulwich Festival Competition in 1998.
As far as he's aware, only Drinking Up Time, his Redbeck Press Pamphlet, is still available.
He regularly performs his work and also works as a more-or-less freelance creative writing tutor, teaching adults and/or children.

Jon Corelis
website: http://www.geocities.com/joncpoetics/

Jon Corelis is a poet, translator, and critic who lives in California. More information about him is available at: http://www.geocities.com/joncpoetics/
He also manages transpoetics, an email discussion group devoted to the translation of poetry into English. More information about the list can be found at: http://www.topica.com/lists/transpoetics

Alan Corkish

email: alancorkish@blueyonder.co.uk

website: www.alancorkish.com (and .co.uk)

erbacce is at www.erbacce.com

The People's Poet site is www.thepeoplespoet.com

Alan Corkish is a Liverpool based writer, reviewer and co-editor & founder of the poetry Journal erbacce. He is also bone-idle and thus has to discipline himself to writing a poem-a-day otherwise he'd languish all day in his easy chair with a bottle of Chablis and a platter of oysters pondering the meaning of life and the sad demise of the greater-bearded saltwater gurnard. The poems thus created are then displayed online on the first day of each month where you can read them and then email Alan to tell him what rubbish they are. (He enjoys that) His first collection of 160 poems Corrupted Memories is in the second reprint and later this year his 25,000 word autobiographical poem Glimpses of Notes will be published as part of his prize for winning The People's Poet Award for 2003; it has already been nominated for the T S Eliot award.

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Paulo da Costa

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Published in literary magazines in Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal, Brazil, Ireland, India, Sweden, CZ and France.
General Editor w/ filling Station, a Canadian Literary Magazine.
Recipient of an Alberta Foundation for the Arts Grant. (1998)
Recipient of a Canada Council Grant (1999) to assist in the completion of the manuscript, "The Scent of a Lie".

Sylvie Cox
Organisation: Castle Poets (Rochester)
26 Burleigh Close, Rochester, Kent ME2 3TQ

Retired now to spend more time writing. A very coloured childhood and early life prompts me to be a rather 'nostalgic' writer. Born in Sidcup, Kent moved to The Medway Towns on marriage in 1954 to a Rochester boy.
Several poems published in anthologies. Three books to date, all completely sold out, 'Inky Fingers' 'Intimate Frillies' and the last one in 2000 'Bridging The Millennium'. Book number four should be ready early 2002.

Tony (The Crow) Crowther
website:

Since 1993 I've had approx 16 poems published in various anthologies, I was also involved with a Celtic Folk Rock Band, I was the writer of the only track we laid down in studio.
Enjoy playing the Recorder and Bodhran, as much as I enjoy my writing. I attend at the local folk club most weeks, and try out my new poems on the poor unsuspecting souls. I also spend far to much time sat at my PC.
Poetic Licence is an anthology of verse, by Tony (The Crow) Crowther. It is a mixture of emotions, on many levels. Please Enjoy.

Cathy Cullis
Website http://www.herebedragons.co.uk/slipstream/

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Born November 1969 in Perivale, Middlesex. Has since lived in Middlesex, Dorset, Arizona USA and Hampshire. She now lives in Cambridge and is working on new poems and garden writing. She holds a BA Hons English with Art from Brunel University. MA Creative Writing Bath College.
Received an Eric Gregory Award from The Society of Authors 1996. Winner of the 1998 Flarestack pamphlet competition. Poems published in a variety of magazines including: The Rialto, Seam, Poetry Wales, Obsessed With Pipework.
Co-editor of Slipstream magazine with Helen Knibb.
Also fiction writer. Work published in magazines and short story anthology The Catch (Serpents Tail) 1997
Currently seeking a fellow poet for collaborative project. Must be experienced with work published and have email access. Project open to discussion, according to shared interests. Purpose to stretch and work on strengths and weaknesses. If interested please email me!