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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.

José Manuel Cardona’s Birnam Wood translated by Hélène Cardona, reviewed by Neil Leadbeater

Neil Leadbeater

José Manuel Cardona's Birnam Wood translated by Hélène Cardona

Birnam Wood / El Bosque de Birnam: Antología poética. A Bilingual Edition with English translation by Hélène Cardona / Salmon Poetry / 94 pages / 2018 Poet, writer, and translator José Manuel … [Read more...]

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 … [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 … [Read more...]

Book Review — Brownian Life by John Tischer

Neil Leadbeater

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 … [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 … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

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