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		<title>Interview: U.V. Ray</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I weren’t talking to you right now I’d be …
 
Stuffing a snooker ball in John Cooper Clarke’s mouth and gaffer-taping it shut so he can’t spout any more of his dribblings. Poetically speaking I rank him alongside Pam Ayers. The poetry is the same hotch-potch of puerile observations arranged in a series of plodding, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Chris Killen</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I weren’t talking to you right now I’d be …
 
Trying to write a novel. 
 
A phrase I use far too often …
 
I have recently had the ‘pleasure’ of hearing myself back in a couple of recorded interviews, and I was surprised by how much I say ‘erm’. I mean, I knew I said it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with L.Ward Abel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:16:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Zaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;ve had some poets criticize me for being too &#8220;neutral,&#8221; and I suppose that may be true, but to me there is nothing more immediate than what is in front of me, the snap shot in my hand.&#8221;   ~L. Ward Abel, poet, musician, composer.
Would you say that you were a musician first or better stated, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Lisa Zaran</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Aug 2007 11:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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Lisa Zaran is an American poet, essayist, author and artist. Best known for her poetry collection, &#8220;the sometimes girl&#8221;, which was published in 2004 by Inner Circle Publishing. Lisa continues to write as well as speak at poetry festivals. In January 2007 she founded a poetry journal, Contemporary American Voices, whose goal is to encourage and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: James Quinton</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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If I weren&#8217;t talking to you right now I&#8217;d be &#8230;
Putting together issue 20 of Open Wide Magazine. I hadn&#8217;t quite realised how many submissions we&#8217;d received in the past couple of months; it&#8217;s taken me two full days to get up to the beginning of June!
A phrase I use far too often &#8230;
At the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Tony O&#8217;Neill</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2007 07:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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A phrase I use far too often&#8230;
yes.
The most surprising thing that ever happened to me was&#8230;
Actually, nothing surprises me anymore. Nothing. I suppose that I wasn’t shot and killed the time I foolishly decided to rob a crack dealer in LA. That one is still a source of wonderment to me.
I am not a politician [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Joseph Ridgwell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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Joe grew up in the East End of London and left school with few qualifications. He then embarked on a succession of menial jobs. After being stabbed in a bar brawl and getting robbed at knifepoint he decided it was time to leave the country and promptly travelled the world; Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Malaysia, Thailand, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Matthew Coleman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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Matthew Coleman is a latter-day Divine Marquis for the hipster Offbeat Generation. A ballsy Ronald Firbank with knobs on and a broad grin on his bewhiskered chops. He is the bastard offspring of Valmont and Sid James; the missing link between libertinage and the saucy seaside postcard. Think Philosophy in the Bedroom shot by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview: Johnny Ryan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sean McGahey: Why do you draw cartoons?
Johnny Ryan: It&#8217;s something that I&#8217;ve always been naturally inclined to do, even when I was doing other things. It was a fun way of expressing myself. It&#8217;s also a perfect job for social retards like myself.
SMcG: What is your process for doing it?
JR: I start at the top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview ~ Vince Samford</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vince Samford is 29 years old, married with no kids, and lives in Chicago, IL. He has a bachelor’s degree in business from Eastern Illinois University (graduated 1999). He’s originally from a small town of 600 people in a farming community in southern Illinois, and lived in Chicago for 7.5 years. He’s not a professional photographer, and [...]]]></description>
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