Aaron, Moses
Aaron, Ron
Adesida, Dotun
Al-Assady, Abdul-Settar
Banerjee, Arunabh
Baraka, Ahmed
Beal, Mark
Binx, Eugene
Bisht, Pushkar
Brown, Dr. Glen
Buck, Gail
Chambers, Eric
Chambers, Lesley
Chappel, T. A.
Chi, Anson
Coakley, Mark
Coelho, Paulo
Culling, Peter
Diwivedi, Tripuresh Dhar
Dufort, Mike
Ebony, Ojo Iredia
Falit, Joseph E.
Fawcett, Shaun
Fitzgerald-Clarke, Michael
Fleming, Suzanne
Fries, Todd
Gheorghiu, Cristache
GOrDon, Gregory
Huchu, Tendai
Izuogu, Victor
Jacobsen, Heidi
King, Nigel
Kumar, G. Ram
Lake, Gina
LaRocca, Kay
Lay, Vicheka
Litt, Dr. Jerome Z.
Majumdar, Pritis Chandra
McCulloch, Iain
Merrow, Liz
Miller, Harley
Maffey, Laura
Maffey, Riccardo
Milazzo, Ronald
Minya, Dzimba
Nath, Bhasurananda
Neo
Nirmala
O'Brien, Benjamin
Okonkwo, Ikechukwu
Patterson, R.J.
Purcar, Gabriela
Ridner, Melanie
Rinaldi, Jacquie
Roberts, Ella
Rutz, Gary
Sharp, Ian
Sooriyarachchi, Janaki
Spudich, Giulietta
Ştef, Dorin
Stull, Blaire
Taylor, Roy
Thomas, Dennis
Thompson, Tantse
Turley, Keith
Vine-Knight, Leo
Watson, Rob
Wear, Milt
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Lesley Chambers was educated at Mirfield Secondary Modern School in West Yorkshire and left school at the age of seventeen to work in a bank and later at Huddersfield Unemployment Benefit office as it was then known. Her career was interrupted by severe psychiatric illness, diagnosed as Bi-Polar Disorder. She continued to work for several years as an office “temp” until her condition deteriorated to a point that it did not allow her to work. She was later diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, a combination of disorders which makes the Bi-Polar element extremely difficult to treat successfully. Lesley’s poems, written over a period of three years at the turn of the century, had a cathartic effect. Thanks to pressure and advice from friends and family her poems have now been submitted for publication.
Lesley Chambers was born in 1957 and has lived in Mirfield in West Yorkshire all her life. She has been married to Eric for thirty years and has one son and two cats Ziggy (an insane Tonkinese) and Molly (the most beautiful cat in the world). Lesley’s hobbies include reading, taking care of her cats, and continually dealing with annoying psychiatrists.
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“A Few Brief Words” is a collection of poems which represent the feelings, fears and imagination of the author as she rides the rollercoaster of her tumultuous life. Each work represents a powerful emotion and together the collection of poems show the emotional journey traveled by the author over three momentous years, shaped by the eventful history of her life up to that point.
The poems range from the darkest nightmares to the lightest moments of whimsy, through fantasy and living with Bi-Polar Disorder, and, of course, cats. On the other hand, they are a collection of varying pieces - some funny, some sad, some fearful and some angry. Something in it for everyone, really!
 
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