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About Neil Leadbeater

Neil Leadbeater is an author, essayist, poet and critic living in Edinburgh, Scotland. His short stories, articles and poems have been published widely in anthologies and journals both at home and abroad. His publications include Librettos for the Black Madonna (White Adder Press, 2011); The Worcester Fragments (Original Plus, 2013); The Loveliest Vein of Our Lives (Poetry Space, 2014), Finding the River Horse (Littoral Press, 2017) and Punching Cork Stoppers (Original Plus, 2018). His work has been translated into several languages.

Ill Angels by Dante Di Stefano, reviewed by Neil Leadbeater

Neil Leadbeater

Ill Angels, poetry by Dante Di Stefano

Ill Angels by Dante Di Stefano / Etruscan Press / 2019 / ISBN 9780998750880 / 92 pages. We rarely think of angels as being ill. If we make the assumption that “ill” is being used here in the sense of “bad,” most are considered to be good but then we remember Lucifer, the wildcard in the pack. Judging by the quotations that preface this collection, these are the ill … [Read more...]

Eileen R. Tabios’ Manhattan: An Archaeology reviewed by Neil Leadbeater

Neil Leadbeater

Manhattan: An Archaeology by Eileen R. Tabios

Manhattan: An Archaeology by Eileen R. Tabios / Paloma Press / ISBN: 978-1-365-87509-0 / 2017 Manhattan, probably from the Lenape language word Mannahatta, meaning "island of many hills," is the most densely populated borough of New York City, its economic and administrative center, and its historical birthplace. Locally it is often referred to simply as The City. However, … [Read more...]

Book Review — Brownian Life by John Tischer

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John Tischer - Brownian Life - Poetry

Brownian Life by John Tischer / Bibliotheca Universalis / Bucharest, Romania / 2015 John Tischer was born in Chicago. He graduated from Carleton College in 1971 and was a student of Chögyam Trungpa, a Buddhist meditation master who was also a scholar, teacher, poet, artist and disseminator of Tibetan Buddhism to the West. In 2004, Tischer settled in Tepoztlan, Mexico … [Read more...]

An interview with Argentinian poet, publisher and translator, Juan Arabia

Neil Leadbeater and Juan Arabia

Juan Arabia (b.1983 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a poet, translator and literary critic. He studied Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires and is now the director and publisher of the website, Buenos Aires Poetry. In the course of his work he has interviewed many poets including John Ashbery, Dan Fante and Robert Darnton; translated several works into Spanish and … [Read more...]

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