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Octavo is the online quarterly e-zine of the Alsop Review. Our aim, with each issue, is to offer eight of the very best poems and/or short stories available on the web. We also aim to have a mixture of established writers and emerging new talent.
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Hmmm..Andrew as the Butcher of Surrealism |
Andrew Boobier was born in England to human parents as part of a UK government experiment in the 1960's and, despite resistance, has bred successfully in captivity. After a brief flirtation with heavy metal and punk in the 1970's he has, in turn been an existentialist, a structuralist, a post-structuralist, a surrealist. For many years he would sit in a dark corner of his room, listening to Bach's Goldberg Variations, dribbling into endless cups of tea. Andrew likes to think of himself as a strong-minded individual who ploughs his own furrow. Others know better.
He has published in the UK and USA in magazines such as The New Yorick, Orbis, versus, The Rue Bella, Schuylkill Valley Journal and Smorgasbord; and online in The Pedestal Magazine, Poems Niederngasse, Three Candles, Eclectica, and Snakeskin. His web site is at: http://www.boobier.com. |
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Billy Marshall Stoneking is an Australian/American poet and playwright, the author of seven books, including Singing the Snake, Sixteen Words for Water (A play about Ezra Pound) and Taking America Out of the Boy. His poems have won numerous prizes and are featured in The New Oxford Book of Modern Australian Poetry (ed by Les Murray) and The Penguin Book of Contemporary Australian Verse (ed by J Tranter) among others. He is currently living in Sydney where he is Head of the MA programme (scriptwriting) at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. |
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