Horizon Review Podcast, Autumn 2009
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Review Podcast: Part Two (27.9 MB)
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Matt Nunn (Host)
Matt Nunn was born in West Bromwich in 1971 and works as a freelance poetry workshop leader and freelance writer. His work has taken him into many obscure places. Amongst other things he is the co-founder of Start of an Era, an arts-in-football organisation and co-editor of Under The Radar and Nine Arches Press. He lives with his wife and son in some kind of bliss in Solihull. His third collection of poems, Sounds in the Grass, is now available from Nine Arches Press.
Jane Commane (Host)
Jane Commane was born in Coventry in 1983 and is a poet and co-editor of Nine Arches Press and Under the Radar magazine. She has been published in Sherb: New Urban Poetry From Coventry (Heaventree, 2006) as well as in various magazines, and is currently working on a first collection. Jane also recently worked with the Brontë Parsonge museum in Haworth, creating poems from the comments and observations made by visitors.
Part One
David Morley
David Morley is a widely-published poet, co-editor
of The New Poetry (Bloodaxe, 1993), and Director of
the Warwick Writing Programme. His latest collection
of poems, Enchantment, is due soon from Carcanet, as
well as two pamphlets forthcoming from Nine Arches
Press and Templar Poetry.
http://www.davidmorley.org.uk/
Jonathan Davidson
Jonathan Davidson is also a poet and writes for the
radio, but is probably best known in the Midlands for
his work as Director of the Birmingham Book Festival,
now in it's tenth year.
http://www.birminghambookfestival.org/
Barry Patterson
Barry Patterson is a Coventry-based poet who recently
launched a pamphlet, Nature Mystic, with Heaventree
Press. Barry is also known for his performances as
the Green Man!
http://www.redsandstonehill.net/
Bob Mee
Bob Mee runs long-established poetry publishers Ragged
Raven Press, which is based in Warwickshire. He is
also a poet.
http://www.raggedraven.co.uk/
Part Two
Don Barnard
Don Barnard is a Warwickshire poet whose poem sequence about the River Avon, Catchment, was published by Heaventree Press in 2008. Don has also been an organiser of slam poetry contests and ran a small poetry press, Semicolon.
Jane Holland
Jane Holland is a poet, novelist, critic and Editor of Horizon Review. Her latest poetry collection is Camper Van Blues from Salt Publishing. She is currently based in Warwickshire and is at work on a novel.
Meredith Andrea
Meredith Andrea is a poet and one half of the new poetry imprint, Flarestack Poets, which she co-runs with Jacqui Rowe in Birmingham. The Flarestack Poets pamphlet competition winners were Selima Hill and Cliff Forshaw.
Simon Turner
Simon Turner is a Birmingham-born poet and co-editor with George Ttoouli of poetry blogzine, Gists and Piths. His first collection was You Are Here (Heaventree Press, 2007). A new collection, Difficult Second Album, is forthcoming from Nine Arches Press in 2010.
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