John Sparrow is researching for a PhD in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK. His focus is on performances of technology, and much of his poetry engages with new media. He is webmaster for the online women’s contemporary writing journal How2 www.how2journal.com, and more online work can be found at his website – always under construction – at personal.rhul.ac.uk/pple/333, while his blog is at http://itchaway.blogspot.com.