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Featuring: Gaby Bila-Gunther (Berlin), Munayem
Mayenin (UK), Øystein Hauge (Norway)
 Gaby
Bila-Günther
Gaby Bila-Gunther’s reviews, profiles and nonfiction
articles have appeared in many cultural magazines in Australia,
Germany, and England. She has self published her own book
of tram tales, Validate & Travel on a moving tram in
Melbourne, Australia 2000. She has performed spontaneously
in many public places such as: launderettes, public toilets,
train stations, lifts and hairdressers. Her poetry has been
published on many windows, cans, shopping bags, aprons and
tram shelters in Melbourne. Her spoken word CD, Off the Main
is layered by an echo laden of techno beats, making the words
stronger. She is currently based in Berlin, Germany.
For further information about other projects travel to: www.geocities.com/gabycbila/
 Ø ystein
Hauge (10.12.1956-) Poet, author and cultural
consultant.
Øystein Hauge was born and raised in the south of
Norway, but currently resides on the west coast. He has twenty
years of experience as a cultural consultant in the public
sector, primarily in the ministry of Justice, where Hauge
is responsible for the cultural and social activities for
all the Norwegian conscientious objectors, but also as program
coordinator for the renowned " Bjørnsonfestival" in
Molde.
 In 1992 Hauge published a highly alternative history of
literature, " Forfatterliv og Røre" [The
lives and mess of Authors]. He has held several courses in
poetry - including the successful "Haiku school" on
the web pages of Dagbladet, a large Norwegian newspaper.
Hauge has edited anthologies of poetry, as well as the anthology "Drømmen
om Korea" [The Dream of Korea] for an adoption agency.
In 2000 he published his first work of poetry, the haiku
collection "Grønt" [Green], which attracted
much critical acclaim and attention. In 2002 Hauge published
another poetry collection "Bare" [Just], and last
year he published "Radiodikt" [Radiopoem], which
also received much attention. In the fall of 2003 Hauge traveled
to Japan, where his Haiku poems where presented for a large
audience. He was recently awarded a prestigious scholarship
from the Norwegian state, and is currently planning a long
study session in the Midwest of the USA. www.gyldendal.no/Search/person.asp?person=22881
 Munayem
Mayenin
Munayem Mayenin, although born, brought up and educated
in Bangladesh made England his home for many years. He writes
in English all genres of creative writing including philosophy
and psychology.
He studied Bangla and World Literature including the great
classical and modern European, African and Latin American
literature and poetry, including of course, English at his "mad
university days" as he would like to put it.
Mayenin’s first collection of English poems, Command
the Moon, was published in London in 1993.
 Although
he continued writing he did not publish much for many years
as he dedicated most of his time writing his philosophical
projects while working for the civil service: Dehumanisation
of Humanity (four volumes to be published), Psychology of
Zooman (to be published), Theory of the Universe (to be published).
Mayenin writes effortlessly in all genres of creative writings
including short and micro stories, novels, poetry, children's
lit and screen plays.
Read more about Munayem Mayenin
Read Munayem's poems
performed at Alchemy here.
Web sites featuring Mayenin’s works: http://www.munayemmayenin.com
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