Contributors
Pascale Quiviger
Pascale Quiviger was born in Montreal (Canada) in 1969. After studying philosophy and visual arts, she lived in Italy, where she taught drawing and painting for a decade. Following the birth of her daughter in 2008, she moved to Nottingham. She has published novels, short stories, essays, poetry and art books.
Her website is www.pascalequiviger.com
Justin Turford (ex-friendly)
Justin produces music and DJs under the name Ex-Friendly and is also half of international music and culture champions Truth & Lies Music. Originally a visual artist, he rerouted his creativity into the music world many years ago, producing and performing under various disguises at clubs, festivals and on radio both nationally and internationally. Writing has become an important outlet in recent years, producing articles for magazines and record labels whilst inhabiting the role of editor for the Truth & Lies Music blog - www.truthandliesmusic.com. Justin is also now looking to publish books yet to be written.
Rachel catlin
Rachel is a composer who mainly specialises in composing electroacoustic music but also has interests in other practices such as more traditional, classically composed pieces and sound installations. Having had a CD and record dealer as a father has meant that her influences are wide ranging, from the likes of Curtis Mayfield to Philip Glass.
Originally coming from a more instrumental background, having played the cello and the saxophone, Rachel became interested in composing at University. Initially she was more interested in traditional composition however in her third year fell in love with electroacoustic and acousmatic music, so much so that she is currently studying a Master’s in electroacoustic composition/sonic art at the University of Birmingham.
You can find more work from Rachel on SoundCloud at https://soundcloud.com/rachel-catlin
LIZZIE KNATT
Primarily a classically-trained recorder player, Lizzie’s musical influences are what some might call ‘eclectic’ – from folk and early music to contemporary and experimental performance. Currently in her second year at the University of Birmingham, Lizzie studies recorder with Annabel Knight and clarinet with Jack McNeill.
Lizzie caught the contemporary music bug while playing with the York-based Chimera Ensemble in 2018. At University, she performs with the New Music Ensemble and manages ‘Creative Exchange’, a collective dedicated to performing student compositions, open scores and improvisation.
During the lockdown, Lizzie has been exploring different ways of music making; creating pieces using text and pre-recorded media, and more recently exploring the interaction between sound and visuals, in collaboration with Owen Russell (tape/electronics, composition). The instrumental sounds you can hear in both of Lizzie’s pieces were played by her, on contrabass recorder (whose meadows) and clarinet/vocals (I am the moon).
Mark Goodwin has been learning to write poetry for over thirty years ... had he not given so much time to words he would’ve probably been a dancer. He is fascinated by movement through place, and by the shapes & gestures of physical human being. He has published six full-length books & eight chapbooks with various poetry houses including Leafe Press, Longbarrow Press, Shearsman Books, & The Red Ceilings Press. His work focuses on place & landscape, and often on rock-climbing & hillwalking. Mark was brought up on a farm in South Leicestershire, and now lives with his partner on a narrowboat just north of Leicester.
Twitter: @kramawoodgin
Bandcamp: https://markgoodwin-poet-sound-artist.bandcamp.com
Anne Holloway is a poet, creative writing facilitator, and founding editor of Big White Shed, an enabling organisation and indepdendent press. She is resident poet in an alternative provision school in Nottingham, lead writer on Surviving by Storytelling, a project at The Institute of Mental Health Nottingham, and has just been appointed as Creative Director of Nottingham Poetry Festival for 2021.
Instagram: @webepoets @bigwhiteshed
Facebook: @annethepoet @bigwhiteshed
Linda Ford is a Derbyshire-based poet. She has recently completed an M.A. in Creative Writing (Distinction) at The Open University. Her work has appeared in various poetry journals and is forthcoming in The Alchemy Spoon and
The High Window.
