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| Tony O'Dwyer
Tearmann, Roscam, Galway, Ireland Born 1950
Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland. Graduate NUI Galway BA in
English & Philosophy MA in Education. Currently
Teacher of English. Stephen Oliver
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/
I am a retired Headteacher, now working as an editor & reviewer of poetry for magazines. I help to run SOUTH Poetry Magazine, one of the longest running poetry magazines in England.
I have been writing poetry all of my adult life. My first success came with a prize-winning poem in a National Poetry Competition. This gave me the confidence to submit my work more widely, leading to regular publication of my work in many of the leading poetry magazines. My first collection, CLOSE TO THE EDGE was published in 1996 & won the prestigious ROSEMARY ARTHUR AWARD.
My second 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.”
My work has been included in many anthologies, on Internet sites & broadcast on national & local radio in the UK. My poetry has been translated into several European languages and has appeared in anthologies published in a number of different countries.
Gloucester born, I have lived and worked in Berkshire for many years. My family and I lived in Maidenhead for over 20 years, both of my sons being educated at Desborough School. We still maintain many contacts with the town. Living in semi-rural Warfield inspired me to record life in this charming parish as a sequence of poems that have formed the basis for my collection, ROUGH MUSIC, which was published by bluechrome in the Autumn of 2006.
A new collection, CHOOSING THE ROUTE, will be published by Indigo Dreams Publishing in October 2010.
Details and examples of my work can be found on my website :
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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. |