Biography
Michael Cunningham lives in Liverpool and has been writing since 1986. For two years presenter of The Evil Dead Poets Society, an early incarnation of The Dead Good Poets Society. He has two collections published: "Sharp & Leathery" (Headland 1995) "About Healing" (Driftwood 2004) Website: www.mcsharpandpoetry.co.uk
Samples
DANCING IN THE DARK - BLACKPOOL To the Tower Ballroom without a partner, dancing alone, but recalling each pulse. Less irksome than to shunt an unfamiliar dodgy hip around the polished floor. One flesh, oblivious to the idle glance, he floats across the room, coming here often to renew promises. Unable now to sit one out with tired feet or escape to the bar, perhaps to lose the fading beat, the time he's keeping. Up through the floor the console rises. Lights. Music. Curtains. I smile and push my partner into a reluctant rumba. Two basics, then pretend to stamp on cockroaches. Never do anything on the 1 beat unless its to slide with style into the side step. Hold her tenderly, pretend to be in love. (from Sharp & Leathery) GOODNIGHT, CHARLIE Charlie imagined too much, so he got it in the neck. When the boys from forensic have done he'll become a plan on the floor, some cop's death pentacle chalked out in code, an image for conjecture in a hotel room suddenly seedy with raincoats, a flash-bulb and the last respects of deadpan faces. They set to work on motivations, but no one else is moved once they've taken the body. (from Sharp & Leathery)
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