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an alphabetical list | main author biographies

David Agnew

“Walking into Eternity” is David Agnew’s first publication from Flux Gallery Press. Its main themes draw on his personal inner journey from addiction to sobriety which took place against  a background rooted in Belfast and the Northern Ireland of the 1960’s. David is now resident in Leeds and works in the area of therapy and healing within the further education field.

He is also involved with a number of poetry groups in Leeds and the surrounding towns of Ilkley and Otley and Bradford. In his classes David explores not only simply elements drawn from his life experience but also discusses the idea concerning the power of poetry or the written word to re-shape ideas and re-build broken lives.
 
More recently, he has introduced the interpretation of visual imagery into his classes.
 

Dennis Gray

Dennis Gray is in fact the first novelist to be published by Flux Gallery Press. Born in Yorkshire in 1935, he started climbing at the age of eleven and has since climbed with Arthur Dolphin, Tom Patey, Don Whillans amongst other notable British climbers of their day. Two serious falls, first at Glen Nevis and at Font have curtailed his climbing activities somewhat, yet recently he has continued to travel to many diverse locations such as Tibet, China and New York in recent months. Dennis continues to maintain his active membership of the British Mountaineering Council. His input there reflects his lifelong interests in the outdoors life, being an accomplished and highly respected international climber in his own right.

His novel, “Todhra” is a book which focuses on the character of John Firth, a climber who is struggling to understand his sexual orientation and the various responses of those in and around the contemporary mountaineering scene to his predicament.
Dennis is also the author of “Rope Boy” (1970) which was originally published by Victor Gollancz, (currently out of print), which is but one of the highly acclaimed autobiographical accounts of his outdoor years. These are; Mountain Lover (Crowood 1990), Tight Rope (Earnest Press 1993), Slack - The Fun of Climbing (self - published 1998) and Poems from the Edge (2003).
 

T. F. Griffin

T. F. Griffin is the author of “The Leveller” which was published by Flux Gallery Press in 2006. He has been involved in the poetry world since the 1970’s when both Ted Hughes and Philip Larkin assisted in the publication of his early works in several literary magazines. After attending Douglas Dunn’s workshops in Hull he was one of ten poets represented in the Bloodeaxe publication “A Rumoured City Revisited” (1982). T. F. Griffin’s two core books are “Cider Days”, Headland (1990), and “Kavita”, Shoestring Press (2003). T. F. Griffin contributed four poems to and also edited “The Great Refusal”, which was the first anthology of poetry from Flux Gallery Press.

 

 

 Sitara Khan is currently living in Leeds, finalising her first collection for Flux Gallery Press. She first performed her work at the War Poetry Evening in April 2007, and was invited to submit her poetry in the days following. Her powerful work is a very important and timeless fusion of personal reflections on the subject of East meeting West, filtered through the Afghan oral / storytelling tradition - there is a very strong feminine identity which emerges too. Provisionally titled 'Rocking the Cradle', her book is anticipated for publication in early 2008.

Peter Lewin

Peter Lewin :“The Pig” is his first major collection for Flux Gallery Press.  He spent his childhood in the idyllic village of Silverdale in North Lancashire. His cthonic work has appeared in a variety of poetry magazines and journals, such as Brando’s Hat, Dream Catcher & Pennine Platform to name but three. His work has also been broadcast on Radio Cumbria, Radio Lancashire and Radio Merseyside. Previous publications include : “Lost Passports” [also with Jason Lee] Transference (2005) and “Silverdale”, Kendal Press (2003).

 

Ian Parks

Ian Parks contributed six poems to “The Great Refusal” published by Flux Gallery Press in 2005. Ian was born in Mexborough in Yorkshire. He has been instrumental in developing the presentational side the Flux Gallery, introducing various poets and co-ordinating many of the early readings with great success. His most recent publication was “Shell Island” by Waywiser Press, which saw its northern launch at the Flux Gallery in 2006. His collection "The Cage" published by the Flux Gallery Press
is due to be released in June 2008.
 
 

Milner Place

Milner Place contributed six poems to “The Great Refusal” published by Flux Gallery Press  in 2005. Milner began writing poetry following many years of travelling, including eleven years as a captain of operating sailing vessels, including yachts. His first poems were written in Spanish and he was in his late fifties before he began to write in his native language. His poems have been widely dispersed in magazines and have been broadcast on both Radio 3 and Radio 4, on television for Bookworm on BBC 1. He has had eight previous poetry collections published, the most recent being "Certain Matters" published by Belfast Lapwing in 2007
Currently, Milner is engaged in producing a book, concerning a three poem cycle centred around Huddersfield, the area in which he now lives. During July of 2007 he has recorded these poems for release as a spoken word accompaniment to the limited-edition version of the collection,  entitled "Odersfelt".
"Odersfelt" is due for publication by Flux Gallery Press in May 2008 in two versions, the first hand-bound with the spoken word CD,
 the second as an ordinary perfect bound paperback.
 

Genny Rahtz

Genny Rahtz is the author of “Prayer Flags”, published by Flux Gallery Press in 2006. Her roots in the poetry world were established whilst attending Douglas Dunn’s poetry workshops in Hull and she was one of ten poets published in the anthology “A Rumoured City Revisited” published by Bloodaxe (1982). A keen traveller, her work reflects the appearance and spiritual workings of both the world of nature and the environmental impact of humanity on the landscape.