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Howard Cunnell
Howard Cunnell was born in Eastbourne and lives in
London with his wife and three
daughters. He has worked as a scuba diving instructor,
lifeguard, and labourer, and has a PhD from the
University of London. In September he will take up a
two-year Leverhulme Research Fellowship at the
University of Sussex. He is the editor of Jack Kerouac's
On the Road – The Original Scroll ('the living version
for our time' – Luc Sante – The New York Times).
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Guy Debord
Guy Debord (1931 -1994) was a marxist revolutionary. He
was central to the student uprising in 1968 that led to
the General Strike in France. He was co-founder of the
Situationist International that fused avant garde art
and politics as a anti-capitalist weapon.
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Andrew Franks
Andrew Franks was born in Eastbourne, a stone’s throw
away from Soul Bay. He has worked in local government,
theatre, as an English language teacher, a cycle courier
in London, a musician and for magazine and newspaper
companies around the world. He currently lives on
Sydney’s Northern Beaches.
First inspired to write poetry after long nights
drinking coffee and eating toast listening to The Pop
Group, A Certain Ratio and Prince Buster with fellow
members of the Daffy Duck Commando Squad. His first
poems were printed in Spectrum Eastbourne’s seminal new
wave fanzine. He has subsequently written
comprehensively about cricket for JM96* and Inside Edge.
He has also written for Cosmopolitan, Elle Decoration &
House Beautiful. His first novel ‘Mild & Bitter’ is due
for publication in Autumn 2010.
‘Scratched in the stars, sprawled on the sand’ is a
collection of his poems from the last 25 years.
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Martin Jenkins
Martin Jenkins grew up in Maidenhead and Eastbourne. At
a young age he decided he wanted to be a surrealist thus
beginning a lifelong armchair radicalism. He studied
philosophy and thereafter spent years avoiding work.
Eventually he gave way and became a bookseller; this was
followed by a brief and ignominious career in
publishing. He currently lives in London with his wife
and two children. He is a house husband but occasionally
does freelance editorial work and has researched and
written copy for art catalogues. He also performs magic.
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Matthew Loukes
"Matthew Loukes has worked in theatres, removals, music
venues. tattoo shops and bars. He's also spent far too
much time in offices, wearing a suit to a shine. Aged 43
and married for more than ten years he tries to move
around. Sometimes it works and you might find him in
Borneo, Costa Rica or in a dingy bar off the Rue De
Rivoli in Paris. Mostly he's in London. He's the one
wearing a hat, wishing he could still smoke and trying
to attract the attention of the bar staff.
Matthew was born in Eastbourne, next to the stony beach,
on the South Coast of England where he learned to swim,
comb his hair into a quiff and lie still while having
his ribcage tattooed. His parents were both actors,
which always seems to make people say “I thought so”.
In 1988, he moved to London and spent ten years living
with a Heavy Rock band, a philosophy professor and a
collection of transients moving from the seaside to
city. In 1997 he had to give up on his hair and moved
into writing. Matthew graduated from the inaugural
London University MA creative writing programme in 2005.
Before that, he was short-listed for the Sunday Times
New Crime Writers award and had some sports journalism
published in books, national newspapers and magazines.
He writes in an office, helped along by Hillbilly
records and the silent calm of empty desks. If you are
looking for influences you could find some in Tex Avery,
Raymond Chandler or better still, just by walking the
streets between Kings Cross and Chancery Lane stations.
There you’ll find some old bars, graveyards and the
murmured memories of afternoons spent cutting the dust
and hiding out. The themes are there, in the cracked
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