Jon writes poetry that aims to seriously engage with both classical and pop culture in new ways. He has recently invented 'film poster poems', a kind of flexible concrete poem with rules. Also recently, he has put together The Chimerium, a pamphlet of poems by Luke Kennard, Roddy Lumsden, W.N. Herbert and others that can be mixed and matched into over 1,700 possible combinations. He has translated selected poems of Catullus as miniature space operas, a la Ulysses 31 and rewritten Rilke as an ode to Russian polevaulter Svetlana Feofanova. Frivolous projects include combining Chaucer with the Transformers, and compiling portmanteau words. Outside of poetry, he has also published a small number of short stories and articles, and toys with such things as collage novels, web sites, bodypainting, comic illustration, graphic design, pamphlet-making, events organising and songwriting. Maybe he is a jack of all trades or something. He also has a mild fixation with swifts.
5'9''
9 st
Internet Rage Addict
High Swifts & Formalities @ Umbrella
Tattooparle @ The Facebook Review
Hydromancy @ Pomegranate
Two Poems @ Soundzine
Cemetery, 1793 @ qarrtsiluni
Three poems @ Fringe Poetry
Scissorhappy @ The Wolf (print magazine archived online at poetrymagazines.org.uk)
Three Poems @ Nth Position
The One Where The Cake Ignites @ McSweeney's Internet Tendency
Shooting Nudes @ Word Riot
Harriet Just @ Guardian Books
Gators Versus Zombies @ NR1
Muswell Hill Time Travellers @ Vintage One
Four Poems @ Argotist Online
The Balance of Work and Life, an article for the National Association of Writers in Education
'Caligula gone cold' in Rising 47, September 2008
Three poems in Mimesis 3, November 2007
Six poems in Mimesis 1, April 2007
'Mary, I get to' in Obsessed With Pipework 37, Febrary 2007
Three poems, including prize-winner 'Nightcrawler' in Gold Dust 9, Winter 2006
'Scanish Swift' in South 33, April 2006
'Kosher Cajun' in Aesthetica 11, January 2006
'Spitfire's Poetry Kit' in iota 71, Winter 2005
'Kilimanjaro Beer' in the bluechrome anthology, 2005
'Svetlana Feofanova' in Spiked 15, 2005
'Boatmakers by the Banyan Tree' and 'Diver' in The New Writer 65, March/April 2004
'Warhead' in the bluechrome anthology, 2004
'Odi et Amo' and 'Turtlesong' in Eggbox 2, 2003
Kirsty also writes poetry, and is the editor of Fuselit, a journal of poetry, short fiction, art and music. She is from North East Lincolnshire and has come via Norwich and New Orleans to Jack the Ripper country in London where she likes watching Daria, reading Frank O'Hara and listening to Pulp. She has been building towards a collection of 'cover versions' of novels, Covering Tracks, a selection from which won her a prize in the New Writer's best new poetry collection category and has performed at various London poetry events, including 14 Hour and The Shuffle. She explores topics such as sexual repression and its consequences, ideas of perversion, obsessions, the darker recesses of myth and pop culture and the headaches of teaching the principles of civil society to feral animals. She dyes her hair red.
5'6''
9 st 7lbs
Semi-neurotic masochist
Black Diamond Heavies @ Pomegranate
Two Poems @ Soundzine
I Sold Your Fingers @ Toad In Mud
Lacrimophilia @ ABCTales Magazine
Three Poems @ Argotist Online
By A Narrow Red Ribbon @ Farafina Online (link down)
'Three reasons to love Teedie Roosevelt' in Rising 47, September 2008
Three poems in Mimesis 2, August 2007
Two poems from 'Covering Tracks' (Highly Commended for best new poetry collection 2006) in The New Writer 81, March/April 2007
'Water Snail's Pinwheel Minute' in 101 Poets for the Cornish Assembly, bluechrome publishing
'Preservativ' in Magma 33, Winter 2005