para·text is a publishing experiment that inserts space between poems and their paratextual frameworks.
Linda Kemp’s publications include Immunological (2014) and Blueprint (2015) and an album, speaking towards (2015), with enjoy your homes press. Recent work can be found in Blackbox Manifold, Datableed, e∙ratio, Gorse, Lighthouse, M58, and Shearsman
JJ Mars is a mash up artist from Portadown, N. Ireland and Utah in the U.S. Their work is influenced by pop art, twitter psychology, buddhist philosophy, surrealist fables, Tibetan mysticism, B movies and A movies, noise music, Guy Maddin, absurdism and much more. They have lived all over the world in places such as Turkey, Poland, South Korea, various parts of North America, and the U.K. They live in the Docklands of East London. Visit them online at: www.marcusslease.weebly.com and on twitter: @postpran
Sophie Mayer is the author of (O) (Arc, 2015), The Private Parts of Girls (Salt, 2011) and Her Various Scalpels (Shearsman, 2009). With Sarah Crewe, she co-edited Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot (English PEN, 2012), Binders Full of Women (2012) and Glitter is a Gender(Contraband, 2014), and co-wrote signs of the sistership (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2013). She reviews poetry for Shearsman Review, and writes about film for Sight & Sound, The F–Word and Literal. She was the first poet-in-residence at the Archive of the Now.
Philip Terry is currently Director of the Centre for Creative Writing at the University of Essex. Among his books are the lipogrammatic novel The Book of Bachelors, a translation of Raymond Queneau’s last book of poems Elementary Morality, and the poetry volumesOulipoems and Shakespeare’s Sonnets. His novel tapestry was shortlisted for the 2013 Goldsmith’s Prize. Dante’s Inferno, which relocates Dante’s action to current day Essex , was published in 2014, as well as a translation of Georges Perec’s I Remember. A new volume of poetry, Quennets, is forthcoming from Carcanet in 2016.
Juha Virtanen is the author of Back Channel Apraxia (Contraband Books, 2014) and, with Ulli Freer, Inoperative Synchronisation Comprehension Co–ordinate Discrepancy (Rot Direkt, 2014). Recent work has also appeared in Blackbox Manifold, Hi Zero, and elsewhere. –LAND is forthcoming from Oystercatcher Press. He co-edits DATABLEED with Eleanor Perry, and teaches contemporary literature at the University of Kent.
