IRA LIGHTMAN lives near Newcastle upon Tyne in the North East of England. 
He creates visual art with communities, and schools. 
His latest project is to spell out the name of the town S-P-E-N-N-Y-M-O-O-R across ten walls in the town itself, 
with poems in the shape of these letters made by local people.  His new e-book is at www.ubu.com/ubu.
His new chapbook is a piece on the I-Ching, a concrete poem of 64 word  shapes following the 64 
hexagrams of the I-Ching and a derived prose poem, with commentary. 
His homepage is at www.soton.ac.uk/~bepc/poets/Lightman.htm .