fourteen magazine

Rudy Gordon

Rudy is a freelance journalist. He read Classics at university but has always loved poetry in English and these days is particularly interested in American poetry. Among his favourite writers are poets such as Ruth Stone, Mark Strand, Tess Gallagher, Robert Hass, James Schuyler, Raymond Carver.

Mike Loveday

Mike has been published in a number of poetry magazines, including Smiths Knoll, The SHOp, and the Frogmore Papers. He has studied creative writing with the Poetry School and Newcastle University. He is interested in the writings of R.S. Thomas, Matthew Sweeney, Sian Hughes, Maura Dooley, Catherine Smith, Michael Donaghy and Michael Laskey.