Born 1950 Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland. Graduate NUI Galway BA in English & Philosophy MA in Education. Currently Teacher of English.
His first collection "Off Guard" is published by Bradshaw books, Cork . He is editor of Crannog Magazine www.crannogmagazine.com and editor of the online magazine WOW! www.wordsontheweb.net

Stephen Oliver
sao@smartchat.net.au
website: people.smartchat.net.au/~sao

Stephen Oliver b. 1950. Grew in Brooklyn-west, Wellington, New Zealand. Author of six major collections of poetry, including: Night of Warehouses: Poems 1978-2000, HeadworX Publishers, 2001. One year Magazine Journalism course, Wellington Polytechnic. Radio NZ Broadcasting School. Casual Radio Actor. Lived in Paris, Vienna, London, San Francisco, Greece and Israel. Signed on with the radio ship, ŒThe Voice of Peace¹ broadcasting in the Mediterranean out of Jaffa. Free lanced as production voice, newsreader, announcer, voice actor, journalist, copy and features writer. Poems widely represented in New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, USA, UK, South Africa, Canada, etc. Recently published, DEADLY POLLEN, a poetry chapbook, Word Riot Press, (USA) 2003. Forthcoming: a CD of poems titled: KING HIT - Selected Readings ­ written and read by Stephen Oliver to original music composed by Matt Ottley, for international release. Stephen is a transtasman poet and writer who lives in Sydney. http://people.smartchat.net.au/~sao/

Patrick B. Osada
PatrickOsada@aol.com

www.poetry-patrickosada.co.uk

 

Patrick B. Osada is a retired  Headteacher, he works as an editor &  also writes reviews of poetry for magazines.

Patrick has been writing poetry  all of his adult life. His first success came with a prize winning poem in a National Poetry Competition. This gave him the confidence to submit his work more widely, leading to regular publication of his work in many of the leading poetry magazines.

His first collection, CLOSE TO THE EDGE was published in 1996 & won the prestigious ROSEMARY ARTHUR AWARD.

 

Patrick’s most recent collection of poetry, SHORT STORIES : SUBURBAN LIVES (Bluechrome), deals with the difficulties and loneliness of  the many people…  “trapped in dark suburbia, just trying to survive.”

 

Patrick’s work has been included in a number of anthologies,  internet sites & broadcast on national & local radio.

 

Gloucester born Patrick  has lived and worked in Berkshire for many years.

His life in semi-rural Warfield has inspired him to record the life of this charming parish as a sequence of poems which will form the basis for his next collection.  - Many of these & other works have appeared  on his website : www.poetry-patrickosada.co.uk

William Oxley

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William Oxley was born in Manchester. A poet and philosopher, he has also worked as accountant, part-time gardener, and actor. At present he divides his time between London and South Devon. His poems have been widely published throughout the world, in magazines and journals as diverse as Sparrow and The Formalist (USA), The Scotsman, New Statesman, Agenda, Stand, The Independent, The Spectator, and The Observer. He has also read his work on UK and European radio. His most recent books of poetry have been Cardboard Troy (Stride, 1993); Collected Longer Poems (Salzburg University Press, 1994), and The Green Crayon Man (Rockingham Press, 1997). In 1981 the Menard Press published his translations of the poetry of L.S.Senghor (Poems of a Black Orpheus), and in 1996 a volume of his plays was published by the University of Salzburg. A former member of the General Council of the Poetry Society and ex-assistant editor of Acumen. In 1995 he edited the anthology Completing The Picture for Stride. The founder of the Long Poem Group, he co-edits its newsletter; and in 1999 his autobiography No Accounting for Paradise (Rockingham Press) appeared.