Issue 6, Jane Marsh interviews the poet, David Grubb who has published novels and non fiction as well as many collections of poetry.
Issue 7, Jane Marsh interviews the poet, Robert Sheppard.
Robert's work and profile can be found on his online magazine, Pages link opposite.
Issue 8, Jane Marsh interviews the poet, Lawrence Upton
Lawrence Upton, born 1949. Poet, graphic and sound artist. Divides his time between London and Cornwall & Scilly where his family originates. Editing the late Alaric Sumner's work for publication: REMEMBERING ALARIC SUMNER, a large feature, was published online in Masthead 8 in February 2004. Upton's latest publication is WIRE SCULPTURES (Reality Street, 2003)
Issue 9, Jane Marsh interviews the poet and publisher, Rupert Loydell.
Due out in the autumn.
Rupert Loydell is the Managing Editor of Stride Publications, Editor
of Stride magazine, Reviews Editor of Orbis, Associate Editor of
Avacado magazine and a regular contributor of articles and reviews to
Tangents magazine. He is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at
Warwick University and poet-in-residence at Sherborne School. He
lives in Exeter, Devon with his wife and two daughters. Recent
publications include The Museum of Light and Endlessly Divisible, and
four collaborative works: Snowshoes Across the Clouds, with Bob
Garlitz; A Hawk Into Everywhere, with Roselle Angwin; The Temperature
of Recall, with Sheila E. Murphy; and Eight Excursions, with David
Kennedy. A Conference of Voices is forthcoming from Shearsman, autumn
2004.
www.Stridebooks.co.uk
Issue ten of Neon Highway, Jane Marsh interviews the poet, Bill Griffiths.
Bill Griffiths - born London 1948, moved north to Seaham in 1990. Taking a first degree in History, he went on to undertake a PhD in Old English at King's College London in the 1980s. Publihsed primarily as a poet, he also writes in the fields of Old English and local history, northern dialect and some fantasy/fiction. He helps edit 'Northern Review' at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne as well as writing and publishing poetry and devising websites. Recent books 'Spilt Cities' (Etruscan Books), 'Durham and other sequences' (Westhouse Books), 'Tyne Txts' (with Tom Pickard, Amra Imprint). Websites: billygriff.co.uk, story-of-seaham.com, pitmatic.co.uk, the-lollipop.co.uk (little press listing). Has campaigned, with Buce Kent and others, for appeal hearing for long-serving Liverpool prisoner Ray Gilbert (the subject of several of his poems).