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 Andre Mangeot, who read at the Phoenix, Leicester, at 8pm on November 10 2006, is a professional charity fundraiser who lives and works in Cambridge. His poetry and short stories have appeared in many magazines and journals including The Times Literary Supplement, Daily Express and London Magazine.
In recent years he has won prizes in the Bridport and Wigton/Scottish National poetry competitions and been shortlisted for the TLS/Blackwells prize. He is a member of the performance group Joy of Six (www.joyofsix.co.uk) which has played at venues across England and Wales, and in New York.
A short selection of his work, Natural Causes ( Shoestring, 2003) is now in its second edition. His first full-length collection, Mixer , was published in May 2005 by Egg Box Press. He is currently writing a novel set in Romania.
Comments on his work:
“Mixer” is a glorious book.- he looks through a glass (or bottle) brightly at so many aspects of humanity ... great premise, excellent execution. (Alicia Ostriker)
There is an element of Raymond Carver about these poems, in their humanity, their poignancy and their story-telling tightness, but there is also something open-weave, light-of-touch and inviting of performance in them. (George Szirtes )
His eye is acute for poverty, violence, the cruelties of love. His poetry shakes the ground, as only good poetry does . (Prof R.V Bailey in Envoi )
Natural Causes
Rodriguez Petron: stabbed.
Eva Waters: scarlet fever.
Van Houten: beaten with a stone.
Chas Helm: shot.
Holo Lucero: killed by Indians.
Peter Smith: struck with a poker.
Frank Bowles: thrown from his horse.
Freddie Fuss: stagnant water.
John Heath: lynched by a mob.
Thom Cowan: diphtheria.
John Gibson: crushed by a wagon.
Mrs Stump: died in childbirth.
Geo Johnson: hanged by mistake.
Billy Kinsman: crime of passion.
Delia William: arsenic poison.
William Carpenter: kidney infection.
Charley Storms: cardgame shooting.
Lester Moore: "four slugs from a .44".
Kansas Kid: killed in stampede.
Malvina Lopez: charcoal fumes.
Archie McBride: consumption.
James McMartin: "over consumption".
Mrs Pring: suicide, hydrate chloral.
Brady Boys: drowned while swimming.
Foo Kee: ptomaine poisoning.
Johnnie Blair: smallpox.
Unknown man: mining fall.
Mrs Brown: natural causes.
See also www.poetrypf.co.uk/andremangeotbiog.html
Review by Steve Morgan in The Stanza 33
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