Simulacrum
by Noel Howley
Nightmare Warning
by Elaine Cosgrove
ELAINE COSGROVE grew-up in Sligo. She writes poetry and short fiction. Special interests are digital poetics, re mediated self and collage. Most recently, her work was published by The Bohemyth, Spontaneity, Icarus, wordlegs, and The New Binary Press. She was highly commended in The Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Award, 2014. Elaine is organiser of Wordhaus Night, Galway – a showcase of pioneering craft, ideas and venture. She holds an MPhil. in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin. tweets @laineycos web: http://elainecosgrove.tumblr.com
NOEL HOWLEY is originally from south Kilkenny and now lives in Waterford with his wife and two daughters.
CHRISTODOULOS MAKRIS was born in Nicosia, and has also lived in Manchester, London, and since 2001 in Dublin. His collections are Round the Clock (Wurm Press, 2009), Spitting Out the Mother Tongue (Wurm Press, 2011) and Muses Walk (yes but is it poetry, 2012) – an artist's book conceived and produced for the international project 'An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street'. He was the representative of Cyprus at Poetry Parnassus – part of the London 2012 cultural Olympiad. His poems have been translated into Spanish, Russian, Croatian and Greek. He was Dublin regional editor for Succour magazine – described by Nicholas Royle in Time Out as "a Granta for the Facebook generation" – and has curated several readings and events in Dublin and elsewhere. He is currently co-editing centrifugal/centrífugo, an anthology of cross-language exchanges between poets in Dublin and Guadalajara to be published by Mexico's EBL Cielo-Abierto publishing house in May. His next book, The Architecture of Chance, is due out later this year. More at http://yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com. Twitter: @c_makris
BILLY RAMSELL was awarded the 2013 Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary. He edits the Irish section of poetryinternational.org and last year judged the Strong / Shine Award for best first collection by an Irish poet. His collection The Architect's Dream of Winter was recently published by Dedalus Press. Author photo credit: Jennifer Garza-Cuen
Schema
by Billy Ramsell
POETRY
GILES GOODLAND was born in Taunton, was educated at the universities of Wales and California, took a D. Phil at Oxford, has published several books of poetry including A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001), Capital (Salt, 2006), What the Things Sang (Shearsman, 2009), Gloss (Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2011) and The Dumb Messengers (Salt, 2012). He works in Oxford as a lexicographer and lives in West London.
The Flies
by Giles Goodland
DIMITRA XIDOUS’ poems have been published in literary journals in Canada, Ireland and the US. She was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize (2013), ‘Over the Edge’ Emerging New Writer Award (2013); and was long-listed for the Montreal International Poetry Competition (2011). Most recently her work was included in the New Planet Cabaret Anthology and is forthcoming in The Penny Dreadful. She will be the featured poet in the Spring 2014 issue of The Stinging Fly. She curates The Ash Sessions, a poetry and music showcase at Nick’s Coffee Company, Ranelagh, Dublin. She is co-curator of Baring Our Ashes, a collaboration between The Ash Sessions and Bare Hands Poetry. With Patrick Chapman, she co-founded and co-edits The Pickled Body, a quarterly poetry and art magazine. Her debut collection Keeping Bees is forthcoming from Doire Press (Spring 2014). www.dimitraxidous.com
Horse Logic
by Dimitra Xidous
KEVIN HIGGINS facilitates poetry workshops at Galway Arts Centre and teaches creative writing at Galway Technical Institute. He is also Writer-in-Residence at Merlin Park Hospital and the poetry critic of the Galway Advertiser. He was a founding co-editor of The Burning Bush literary magazine and is co-organiser of Over The Edge literary events in Galway City. His poetry collections include The Boy With No Face (2005), Time Gentlemen, Please (2008), Frightening New Furniture (2010) all published by Salmon. His work also features in the generation defining anthology Identity Parade – New British and Irish Poets (ed. Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe, 2010). Mentioning The War, a collection of his essays and reviews was published in April 2012 by Salmon. Kevin’s poetry has been translated into Greek, Turkish, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Portuguese. The Ghost In The Lobby is his fourth collection of poems.
Recovering
by Kevin Higgins