1st April 2008

In carriage 22, Obododimma Oha fights footmarks to the next idea; Jill Magi supplies a possible narrative; Jack Alun ordains the lines of tomorrow; Steven Waling gets anecdotal; Carrie Etter listens with a child’s anger; Alex Houen loses the plot; while Rupert M Loydell tries some fugitive scripting.

About the contributors:

Obododimma Oha, a cultural semiotician and stylistician, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, University of Ibadan. He is currently on sabbatical at the Centre for Media and communication, Pan-African University, Lagos. His poems have been published in Agenda, Postcolonial Text, Shadowtrain, SentinelPoetry Online, and African Writing Online.

Jill Magi, writer and visual artist, is the author of Torchwood and several small handmade books that she gives away. Recent text and visual work has appeared in Critiphoria, the tiny, Hilda, HOW2, and the Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, runs Sona Books, and teaches at Eugene Lang College and Goddard College.

Steven Waling has several books out, the latest being Calling Myself on the Phone from Smith/Doorstep books. For more information about Steven plus lots of interesting things, visit his website at http://stevenwaling.blogspot.com.

Carrie Etter lives in Bradford on Avon and teaches at Bath Spa University. Leafe Press published her pamphlet, Yet, last month, and she has two full collections forthcoming, The Tethers, to be published by Seren, and Divining for Starters by Shearsman.

Jack Alun is Reviewer for Shearsman magazine (under the name John Couth), and for Jacket, and interviewer for Argotist online. Published widely in print magazines from Poetry Wales to Coffee House and web journals such as Eratio Postmodern and Dusie. Currently in process of compiling a first collection and completing first novel. Based in France working as a freelance writer and translator.

Alex Houen teaches in the School of English, University of Sheffield. He has published poems in a number of magazines and is co-editor of the online poetry journal ‘Manifold'.

Rupert M Loydell is Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at University College Falmouth, and the editor of Stride magazine. He edited Stride Books from 1982-2008. Shearsman have just published a new book of his poems, An Experiment in Navigation.

To read more, go to www.shadowtrain.com

Submissions now invited for the next issue. Translations especially welcome.