Contributors
Patrick Deeley is from Loughrea, County Galway. His poems have appeared in many literary outlets in Ireland and abroad over the past forty years. “Groundswell: New and Selected Poems” is the latest of his six collections with Dedalus Press. His memoir, “The Hurley Maker’s Son”, appeared recently from Transworld. [email protected]
www.patrickdeeley.com
Pete Mullineaux lives in Galway Ireland and has published four collections, most recently How to Bake a Planet (Salmon Poetry).
J.C. TAKU is an aspiring African writer, Born in Douala. Participated in 2010 competition of the 50th anniversary of Independent and Reunification of Cameroon Monument. He is a poet, Playwright, Novelist and an Inventor. He is barely educated and believes that, it is not compulsory to make a useless trip on earth; no matter the situation. [email protected]
Lauren Bickerdike is a Limerick based artist studying in LSAD who has recently exhibited in Chapel House Limerick in April 2017, in LSAD collaborating with LIT Music Technology in February 2017 , in the Irish Museum of Modern Art December 2016 and Visual Carlow July 2012
Conor Kelly lives on the Loop Head peninsula in West Clare. He had had poems published in Irish, British American and Mexican journals. He runs the twitter site @poemtoday dedicated to the very short poem. Some of these are anthologised on his blog; briefpoems.wordpress.com.
Andrew Calis’s poetry has appeared in Lighted Corners, DisClosure, and elsewhere. He teaches and studies at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
IThom Grey is 30 years old, have lived in The Republic of Ireland and am currently resident in Edinburgh. I once swapped a poem for Gold and Amethyst earrings at Dillon’s Jewellers, Galway City but am currently unpublished and in the process of submitting to multiple journals within the U.K. [email protected]
Kevin Nolan, Dublin born, holds an honours degree in Pure Philosophy from The Milltown Institute, also received a Philosophy through literature diploma there all in all he spent six years studying Philosophy. His debut album Fredrick & The Golden Dawn on which he deuts with choice award winning singer Julie Feeney received highly acclaimed reviews both in Ireland and abroad. www.kevinnolan.info
Camillus John was bored and braised in Dublin, Ireland. He has had work published in The Stinging Fly, RTE Ten, Headstuff.org, The Lonely Crowd, Thoughtful Dog, Honest Ulsterman, The Cantabrigian, The Bogman’s Cannon, The Queen’s Head, Litro, Fictive Dream and other such organs. Recently he killed the Prime Minister of Ireland in fiction in the Welsh literary magazine, The Lonely Crowd, with a piece entitled, The Assassination of Enda Kenny (After Hilary Mantel). He would also like to mention that Pat’s won the FAI cup in 2014 for the first time in 53 miserable years of not winning it.
Janie Mendosa is a student at Arcata High School and the Arcata Arts Institute in Northern California. She is very grateful for the opportunity to be published in the Silver Streams Journal. You can find her on instagram @mostly_void, and her website jmendosa.weebly.com for more art and adventure.
Jane Austin is an Australian writer, illustrator and multimedia short film maker who spent time in Ireland this spring and fell in love with the mythic imagination of Irish poetry, and foxgloves. www.janeaustin.me