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Editor: Munayem Mayenin

Watch Munayem Mayenin's Interview on British Satellite News Channel on the eve of 2nd London Poetry Festival 2006 and the launch of Poet's Letter print Magazine. Click Here

Munayem Mayenin is an English Author, Poet, Philosopher and Editor who writes all genres of creative writings including Children's Literature, Philosophy and other areas of Sociological Studies. He lives poetry and wonders Philosophy and tries to live life as "The Tiny Brilliance" that aspires, entices, lures and fascinates him as much as it pains him, disturbs him and thereby forces him to seek and wonder through his writings so that he could try and find means to live life and celebrate living and the arts of words, ideas and thoughts.. Indeed he takes life to be the ultimate miracle; everyday that unfolds itself before him in a new dawn, Mayenin surely looks at it as the biggest of magic that could unfold before us to behold, inhale and exhale and to say: "Goodness, what an astonishingly amazing experience this is! This being alive!"

Mayenin's Poetry Collections include:

The Geography of Time: Publish America. ISBN: 1-4137-4403-6

Poetica Rainbow Ryder: A Bright Pen Book: 2004 ISBN 0 7552 05 0

The Son of Eternity: Publish America: 2004. ISBN: 1-4137-2545-7

Command the Moon: 1993: ISBN: 1 85863 012 6

His four other collections await publication: Poetry of Ruins and Rains, Neverbridge Stone Roses, A Traveller’s Guide to Polipsychophinadalium and Illumine My Ithaca. 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), first volume is at the publishers and expected to be published next year. 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. Some of his philosophical works have been published on the Philosophy Pathways journal of the International Society for Philosophers.

Mayenin edited The Poet's Letter Poetry Anthology of New Voices (London, 2005). He co-edited Slivers: An Anthology of South Asian Poetry in Britain, which was published in London in 1997.

Mayenin worked as a freelance journalist for many years, has written for many newspapers both in England and other countries across the world.

He worked as a civil servant serving education, adult education and informal education, mother tongue and supplementary education, and Social Services. He spent several years involved in teaching Bangla language and literature at School of Oriental and African Studies-SOAS (University of London), University of Westminster and Adult Education Services of Tower Hamlets and Newham (teaching Bangla and Sylheti). Mayenin worked many years as an Examiner for Sylheti and Bangla Languages for The Institute of Linguists.

Other works include (not yet published) include: The Anatomy of Fear, Infinite Avenues Avenues Infinite, She, Of Mice and Men, (Novels), The United Colours of Blood (Screenplay), Microsphere (Microstory collection), Children's Novels, Children’s Stories, Children’s Poetry and Plays

Mayenin has made England his home and lives in London with his wife, and three children. He was born in the mid sixties and studied Bangla Language and Literature in addition to English, French, Greek, Persian, Sanskrit and Russian Literature as well as Linguistics, Phonetics and Phonology as part of his B.A (Honours) degree under University of Chittagong and read MA in the same areas of studies but left Bangladesh before sitting the exams.

He studied science (Mathematics, Physics, Botany, Zoology and Chemistry) up to college intending to be a physician, which later modified into becoming a Chemist or a Physicist until the university opened up the doors of literature for him! He never puts too much emphasis on academic niceties of studies but found everything and anything interesting and read worthy, only excluding Accounting (with no disrespect to the subject or the profession it supports)! He studied Bangla Language and Literature with World Literature including the great classical and modern European, African and Latin American literature and poetry including of course, English, French and German literature while Eastern and Western Philosophy provided the food of his soul and mind during his “mad university days” as he would like to put it.

Mayenin attended and read at The First Prague International Poetry Festival 2004 and attended and presented a Philosophy Paper (On Dehumanisation of Humanity) at the 12th Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference (October 2005) at The New School University, New York.

He edits and publishes The Poet's Letter Magazine: a monthly online poetry, literature, philosophy, politics, arts and music publication. (First Published in March 2004) and he organises, hosts and reads The Poet's Letter Magazine Poetry Performance and Live Music Series at Covent Garden Poetry Cafe (Every Second Monday of the Month). He writes songs too.

Mayenin is a father of three wonderful children: Ohie (10), Saahia (6) and Raaneem (almost 3!), lives and writes in London and is separated.

Mayenin loves and lives poetry which is the voice of his soul. As an author Mayenin’s consciousness is deeply rooted in the philosophical conviction that he is morally obliged to continue to promote, foster and discharge his social and moral responsibilities towards the humanion he feels so deeply a part of. 

He believes himself to be a citizen of the mother universe and his works call humanity to a universal humanion of humankind in the cosmosian theatre of life in this beautiful infinite universe. He opposes any other forms of identities in favour of a Nation of Humanity on this Blue Planet.

Read from 19 Collections of Poetic Works of Munayem Mayenin

Website

In Spanish

Read Munayem Mayenin's Interview in The Guardian: Sept 15, 2007    The Observer

Read the October issue The Sentinel Poetry Quarterly Interview and Poetry

http://www.sentinelpoetry. org.uk

To read Munayem Mayenin's poetry translated into Spanish by Dr Natalia Carbajosa, published in Agora Literature Journal (in Spain) Click Here

Online Editor: Mary Whittaker

Mary Whittaker studied English at Nottingham University where she anchored the university radio station’s arts and current affairs programmes and began to write poetry and short stories. She then went on to complete a masters degree in Publishing at Oxford Brookes, writing a dissertation on literary prizes and working at various Oxford bookshops. After a stint in non-fiction book publishing, she now edits the website of a City magazine.

Deputy Editor: Dr Simon Jenner
Simon Jenner was born in Cuckfield in 1959. Failing everything at school except art, he learnt to fly instead, where discovering poetry forestalled a career in airframes. To forestall the dole, he was belatedly educated at Leeds, then Cambridge where the quaint paradox of writing his PhD 'Dreaming Fires: Oxford Poetry of the 1940s' was hardly lost on anyone trying to read him. His debut, abroad, seems typical: Poetry volumes in parallel English/German by 'K-Tek' and 'Zeitriss'. A winner of the South-East Arts Bursary, and a recipient of two major Royal Literary Fund grants, he has also received commissions from the BBC. Apart from numerous magazine appearances in the UK, Holland, German and the USA, Jenner writes for 'Poetry Review', 'PNR'. 'Tears in the Fence', 'The Tablet'. 'Music on the Web' and 'British Music Society'. He is currently writing a biography of 1890s poet Lionel Johnson. A second volume is forthcoming from Waterloo Press. Since 2003 he has been the Director of Survivors' Poetry.

Deputy Editor: Rebecca Atherton

Formerly a web designer, Rebecca Atherton redirected her creative focus in 2002 to pursue a career with more traditional roots. Exchanging her day job and the security of PAYE for something far less sure, she embraced solitude and poverty in a bid to follow her heart. Since then she has landed herself a job as a Deputy Editor on a glossy magazine, written two novels, several collections of poetry, and thought about little else but writing and the literary world.

Her books centre around animals and their antics, with her protagonists tending to be of the four-legged variety – due, she says, to her love of the small and the fury. Her poetry, on the other hand, is mainly autobiographical, providing her with a healthy balance between fantasy and reality.

When she isn’t engrossed in the fabrication of a far off land, or busy working out the finer details of her latest plot; she can be found surrounded by several tubes of acrylic, a paintbrush in hand, or lost deep within the pages of a fellow author’s book.

Her poetry has been published in several magazines and anthologies, including, ‘Writing Magazine’ and ‘The Literary Review’. She is featured in the ‘Poetry and Stitches’ exhibition currently touring the country. Her debut novel ‘Somewhere around 2 o’clock’ is due out later this year.

Nadia Saint: Assistant Editor

Nadia Saint has an M. A in English Renaissance Literature from Leeds University and a B. A (Hons) in English Language and Literature from Oxford.

She is interested in features writing, book reviews and contemporary literature and current affairs.

Carolyn Waudby: World Politics Editor

Carolyn Waudby is a poet, journalist and lecturer living in Sheffield.

She received a Yorkshire Arts grant in 2000 to produce a pamphlet of poetry based on works of art. The same year, a poem on wind turbines was used as the basis of a short film for the big screen. One of her great passions is travel. She writes travel articles for newspapers and magazines and is currently compiling her first poetry collection, the core of which will comprise poems on Cuba.
 

Literature Editor: Briony Dennis

Briony Dennis comes from Hampshire, England, and is interested in exploring mythology, science and different personas through her poetry. She recently completed a Masters Degree in Critical and Creative Writing at Winchester University and one day hopes to have earned enough to be able to afford to do a  PhD with a thesis on the relationship between science and poetry.

Ashwin Mehra: Media Editor

Ashwin Mehra holds a BA(Hons) in Media Writing from Southampton Solent University. He has varied interests and has been involved with many aspects of the media industry, such as Photography, Filmmaking, and expresses a huge interest in the effects of the spoken word, he has written for a variety of school/ college/University magazines and more professionally he is a contributor for Asiana Magazine. His has also been involved in poetry, with his unpublished collection called “Ma Words, Ma World”, which is an exploration into the nether regions of the human psyche and the identification of how he sees the ever changing world around him. A bold, new and fresh writer, Ashwin believes that the power of the spoken word is a form that cannot be ignored and is equally influential in sparking change and establishing as well as challenging social norms in society.

Films Editor: Malgorzata Kitowski

Malgorzata Kitowski is a poet and poem film maker. She runs PoetryFilm, organising UK's only regular screening events for the genre of Poetry Film. Her poetry collection "Doppelgangers" is published through the Heaventree Press and Arts Council. She lives and works in London. For more information email info@poetryfilm.org. Fore more Malgorzata was one of the Featured Poet of the April Issue of The Poet's Letter Magazine. Read more of her works in the issue.  

Tanzeel Akhtar: World Religions Editor

Hazel MacLaurin: Performance Poetry Reviewer

Hazel MacLaurin has a BA in English from Royal Holloway, University of London, and is currently studying for her MA in English at the University of Sussex. She writes experimental poetry and is particularly interested in the impact of the typography of words and how they convey meaning to the reader. She is published in the Pettymore Press’s Succour magazine and is currently working on her first collection.

Charlotte Dove: Performance Poetry Reviewer

Charlotte graduated from Oxford University with a degree in English Literature in 2005. She is an avid follower of spoken word. She works as a freelance agent for several live artists. She has recently been appointed Press and Communications Assistant at Apples and Snakes. She lives in Greenwich but hopes to move soon to Southwark.

Lorraine Irwin: Book Reviewer
Lorraine Irwin is a poet by passion and living yet practices law in her career. She reviews books for legal publications and has been featured with her poetry in our publication. Read the issue where she was one of the Featured Poets.