RICHARD O'CONNELL lives in Hillsboro Beach, Florida. Collections of his poetry include RetroWorlds (1993), Simulations (1993), Voyages (1995), and The Bright Tower (1997, all University of Salzburg Press). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, National Review, The Texas Review, Acumen, The Formalist, Light, etc. His most recent collections are Dawn Crossing (2003) and Waiting for the Terrorists (2006, both Atlantis Editions).
DANIEL O'CONNOR was born in Middlesbrough in 1985, and now lives in Liverpool where he is working on a doctoral thesis on the identities of Ted Hughes at the University of Liverpool.
MARY O'DONNELL lives in Co. Kildare, Ireland. Has published four collections of poetry, most recently September Elegies (Lapwing, 2003), three novels, and one collection of stories. She is a member of Aosdána, the multi-disciplinary affiliation of Irish artists which honours creativity and achievement.
BERNARD O'DONOGHUE was born in Cullen, Co Cork in 1945, and he still spends part of every year there. Since 1965 he has lived in Oxford where he now teaches Medieval English at Wadham College. He has published five volumes of poems, with Gallery Press and Chatto & Windus, and his Selected Poems was published by Faber in 2008. He has published books on Medieval European Love Poetry, and on Seamus Heaney, as well as a verse translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight for Penguin in 2006.
GRÉAGÓIR Ó DÚILL was born in Dublin. Educated in Belfast, Dublin and Maynooth, where he gained a PhD in English. He has taught Contemporary Gaelic Literature at Queen’s University, Belfast. He has published eight collections in Irish and one in English (New Room Windows, Doghouse, 2008) and a critical biography of Sir Samuel Ferguson.
ANDREW OLDHAM writes for BBC TV, Stage, Film and Page, publications include Criminally Minded (Route UK, 2003), Dreamcatcher 9/11 (UK), Gargoyle (USA), Black Bear Review (USA), Poetry Greece, Jones Ave (Canada), Comrades (USA), Big City Lit (USA), Retort (Australia), NAWE (UK). He is the editor of Vending Poetry (www.wearpurple.co.uk/vendingpoetry/). He has been nominated for the Jerwood-Arvon 1999 (by Booker prize short-listee, Michele Roberts) and is a prior recipient of a Peggy Ramsay Award for Writers and NWAB Writers Bursary. He was poet-in-residence for North Wales Celebration 2003.
TIM O'LEARY, former archaeologist, is a photographer whose editorial and commercial work has appeared in publications worldwide. Personal projects, usually in black-and-white, are often the source of sleeve art for the likes of John Banville, Doris Lessing and Joyce Carol Oates. His exhibition "Rite of Cancer" (London, 2004) matched sequences of photos and poetry. The poems published in PSR 17 are from a new set entitled "Manganese Tears".
IRAJ OMIDVAR is an assistant professor of English at Southern Polytechnic State University. See entry for Parviz Omidvar.
PARVIZ OMIDVAR has translated into Persian C. G. Jung's On the Nature of the Psyche (Behjat, 1996), Edward De Bono's Practical Thinking (Razi, 1985), and a collection of children’s stories, Tell Me a Story (Andisheh, 2001). In collaboration with his son, Iraj Omidvar, he has published, or has forthcoming, translations of Persian poetry in literary journals such as Tampa Review, Puerto del Sol, Poetry Review, and The Spoon River Poetry Review.
LINCOLN O’NEILL currently works at New Zealand’s Ministry of Social Development. Previously, he lived in India for two years and has travelled to many other countries in Asia such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Laos, all of which have been an influence on his writing.
MARKUS OPPOLZER was born in Linz, Upper Austria, in 1972 and is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the English Department of the University of Salzburg. He is currently rewriting his PhD thesis on failed rites of passage in early Gothic fiction for publication.
PETER ORAM, born in Cardiff in 1947, has lived in La Mancha, London and Pembrokeshire, but is now resident in Nuremberg. First class degrees in Mod. Langs. and Music. Publications include two novels, Maddocks (Gomer, 1997) and The Rub, a collection of poems, White (both Starborn, 2001), and The Page and The Fire (Arc, 2007), translations of poems by Russian poets on Russian poets.
THOMAS ORSZÁG-LAND (b. 1938) is a poet and foreign correspondent who writes on Eastern Europe for The Guardian/Observer News Service and The Times Literary Supplement in London. He survived the 1944/45 siege of Budapest as a Jewish child hiding from both the Nazis and the Allied bombers. He participated in the 1956 revolution against Soviet rule as a journalist on the staff of Magyar Függetlenség (The Hungarian Independent). He read philosophy at Acadia University in Canada. He divides his time between Highgate (London) and Ujlipótváros (Budapest). Major works: Tales of Matriarchy & Other Poems (KT Publications, 1998), Berlin Proposal (Envoi Poets Press, 1991), Testimony (poetry translated from the Hungarian of András Mezei; Budapest: City Press, 1994), Free Women (adaptations from the French of Francois Villon and the Hungarian of György Faludy, National Poetry Foundation, 1991), Prince Bluebeard's Castle (the libretto of the opera by Béla Bartók, translated from the Hungarian of Béla Balázs, Tern Press, 1978) and The Witness (poetry translated from the Hungarian of Miklós Radnóti, Tern Press, 1977).
MAGGIE O'SULLIVAN has performed her work and published internationally since the late 1970s. She worked on arts documentary films for BBC TV between 1973 and 1988. Since then, she has been involved in many performance/workshop presentations, courses and held numerous residencies. Poet, artist, editor, publisher, she is the author of 15 books including EXCLA, a collaboration with Bruce Andrews (Writers Forum, 1993). She edited the influential Out of Everywhere: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America and the UK (Reality Street, 1996). Her most recent publications are red shifts (etruscan books, 2001), Palace of Reptiles (The Gig, 2003) and a republication of the long out-of-print In the House of the Shaman (Reality Street, 2003). Waterfalls is forthcoming from her own press, (Magenta, 2004). Murmur is her current work in process and awaits publication.
MICHELLE O'SULLIVAN lives on the west coast of Ireland. Her work has been published in journals such as Agenda, The Antigonish Review, The London Magazine, Mslexia, PN Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The SHOp, and Stand Magazine.
MARTIN-GEORG OSCITY, originally from Slovakia, has now lived in Munich, Germany for many years. He is the founder of his own style called "Visionart". It is a well-done mixture of the aesthetic of forms, the mystic and the philosophic thoughts behind the quantum theory. The most important aspect for him is the search for signs of God in men, the real beauty and the unity with the universe.
CATHERINE OWEN from Vancouver, BC has published widely in Canadian periodicals. Her books include Somatic: The Life and Work of Egon Schiele (Exile Ed. TO 98) and The Wrecks of Eden (Wolsak and Wynn TO 02). Cusp/detritus will be published by Beach Holme (BC) in 2005. The piece printed here, inspired by Foucault and time spent in the hospital with a schizophrenic, courses back and forth between a history of the asylum and schizoid consciousness.
WILLIAM OXLEY was born in Manchester. At present he divides his time between
London and South Devon. His most recent books of poetry have been Namaste: Nepal Poems (Hearing Eye, 2004),
London Visions (Bluechrome, 2005), Poems Antibes (2006), and Sunlight in a Champagne Glass
(2009, both Rockingham). Poetry Salzburg published The Romantic Imagination: A William Oxley Casebook in 2005.
He is a former member of the General Council of the Poetry Society and consultant editor of Acumen.
The founder of the Long Poem Group, he co-edits its newsletter. He was Millennium Year poet-in-residence
for Torbay in Devon. In 2008, he received the Torbay ArtsBase Award for Literature.
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