featured poets
Some details of poets featured in DEFAULT magazine
colin aherne
Colin Aherne: is currently at large.
martin bennett
Martin Bennett: lives in Rome where he works as a proof-reader and teacher at Tor Vergata University
anamaría crowe serrano
Anamaría Crowe Serrano: is Irish and lives in Dublin with her family. She has published poetry (Shearsman, Masthead, Red Pagoda Press, Jacket) a collection of short stories (Dall'altra parte, Leconte) and a one-act play (The Interpreter, Delta3 Edizioni), as well as translations from Spanish, Italian and English of poems by Seamus Heaney, Brendan Kennelly, Annamaria Ferramosca, Gerardo Beltrán, Eugenio Montale, among others. She has received two awards from the Arts Council of Ireland for her work, as well as third prize from the BCLA/BCLT Competition 2002 (University of East Anglia) for her translation of Valerio Magrelli's collection, Instructions on How to Read a Newspaper. With Riccardo Duranti she has written Behind the Tapestry, a historical novel on the life of Thomas Shelton, the first translator of Don Quijote. Her second novel, The Big E, is pending publication.
james cummins
James Cummins: studied perfomance writing at Dartington College of Arts. Since graduating in 2002 he has been around the world and back againd. In the last year he has been working on a collection of found poems called "a never ending series of mistakes". In his spare time he has set up DEFAULT publishing as well as collaborating with other poets.
giles goodland
Giles Goodland's last book was A Spy in the House of Years (Leviathan, 2001). He lives in London and works as a lexicographer.
scott malby
Scott Malby: To quote James Murray: "I am a nobody. Treat me as a solar myth, or an echo, or an irrational quantity, or ignore me altogether."
christopher mulrooney
Christopher Mulrooney: has written poems and translations in West47, The Burning Bush, Brittle Star, Aesthetica, The Drunken Boat, and Voices Israel, criticism for Parameter, The Film Journal, and Pyramid, and a volume of poetry called notebook and sheaves (AmErica House, 2002).
eoin ryan
Eoin Ryan: is originally from Limerick but currently lives in Cork. He has performed his poetry in Dublin, Cork and Limerick and his work has been published theStony Thursday anthology and Default magazine. He has been running a creative writing group in Cork since 2004, and his first play is being produced by Impact Theatre Company in March 2007.
george shorten
George Shorten: is a native of Cork who has trained and worked as a medical doctor around the world. He returned to Cork in 1997 and has published poetry in literary magazines and anthologies.
andrew slattery
Andrew Slattery: is a communications graduate from Newcastle University. His poems have appeared in literary journals, magazines, radio and anthologies, including The Weekend Australian Review, Opus, Circle, Meanjin, Quadrant, Poetry Salzburg Review, Urchin, Southern Ocean Review, Hutt, Moonwort Review and Black Ink's Best Australian Poems of 2004. In 2004 Andrew was awarded the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry. Andrew lives in Lake Macquarie, Australia.
mario susko
Mario Susko: a witness and survivor of the war in Bosnia, came so to speak, back to the US at the end of 1993. He taught at the University of Sarajevo and Nassau Community College where he is currently an Associate Professor in the English Department. He is the recipient of several awards. His poem from his new book, "Conversion," published and nominated by "Dream Catcher," was short-listed for the 2004 Forward Poetry Prize. He is the author of 23 volumes of poetry, his fourth book in English "Eternity on Hold" having been released May 2005 by Turtle Point Press.