Spell for a Kingfisher
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Lisa Kelly’s The House of the Interpreter (Carcanet) was a PBS Summer 2023 Recommendation. She is an AHRC-funded PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham, exploring the climate crisis through British Sign Language.
On this night
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Pam Thompson is a writer, educator and reviewer based in Leicester. She is a Hawthornden Fellow. Her works include The Japan Quiz (Redbeck Press, 2009) and Show Date and Time, (Smith|Doorstop, 2006). Her collection, Strange Fashion, was published by Pindrop Press in 2017. Pam was winner of the 2023 Paper Swans Pamphlet Competition and her winning pamphlet, Sub/urban Legends (Paper Swans Press) was published in March 2025.
Two Weeks Later
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Jill Abram is autistic, has Jewish heritage and lives with fibromyalgia and Coeliac disease. She grew up in Manchester, travelled the world and now lives in Brixton. Her debut pamphlet, Forgetting My Father, is published by Broken Sleep Books: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/jill-abram-forgetting-my-father
Littorally
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Julie Hogg is a poet from the North Yorkshire Coast with poems most recently appearing in Atrium Poetry, Black Nore Review and StepAway Magazine. Featured in anthologies by Culture Matters and Seren, ‘A Raven on a Writing Desk’ is available from Dunlin Press.
Isn’t it time you threw that old tray cloth away?
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Heather Wastie’s latest collection – her tenth – ‘Wum Med, Wum Growed’ (2026) is a celebration of Black Country dialect. Other titles include ‘Don’t Oil The Hinges’ – a year as Worcestershire Poet Laureate, and ‘You Are Here’ – a diary of lockdown.
Perdida
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Mary Mulholland is widely published, most recently Magma 94 and Ink, Sweat & Tears. Her debut collection is forthcoming this year from Nine Arches and she has two pamphlets (Broken Sleep and Live Canon). She founded and runs Red Door Poets. www.marymulholland.co.uk
Sonnet with Horses
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Eve Chancellor is an English Teacher in Manchester. Her poetry is published online and in multiple anthologies, including: ‘Atrium,’ ‘Dust,’ and ‘Ink, Sweat and Tears.’
Guildhall Jumble Sale
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Julia Webb is a Neurodivergent writer from a working class background. She is a founding editor of Lighthouse Literary Journal. Her most recent collection, Grey Time, was published by Nine Arches Press in 2025. She lives in Norwich.
My Mother Leaves Home In Her Mid-Eighties
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Sheila Jacob was born and raised in Birmingham and now lives in N. Wales. Her debut pamphlet, Spotlit Under Street Lamps, was published by Yaffle Press in 2024.She is working on her first full collection.
you are there
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Steve Pottinger is a founding member of Wolverhampton arts collective Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists. His work regularly appears online in CultureMatters, Yorkshire Bylines, and Morning Star. His seventh volume of poems, ‘snapshots from the fall of home’ is out now.
