Balcony women
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Note: More female suicides in Turkey are now reported as being balcony killings – less easy to detect – as many as one in four hidden femicides disguised as suicides. The Guardian 31.1.26
Alison Campbell, from Aberdeen, lives in London and has poetry published in various publications including London Grip, Culture Matters, Indigo Dreams. She was highly commended in the Ware poetry competition, 2024 and won the South Downs poetry competition in 2023.
Fuck/ this hair
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Lynn Valentine lives in the Black Isle. Her second poetry collection, Devil’s Piece, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2026. Lynn’s debut poetry collection, Life’s Stink and Honey, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2022 after winning their literature award.
Hotel on the quay
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Cherry Doyle lives on Cannock Chase in Staffordshire. Her pamphlet September and collection The Taste of Rain are available from Offa’s Press. She holds a BA in Creative Writing and an MFA in Poetry. Find out more at cherrydoyle.com.
Alice I Love You
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Claire Booker lives by the South Downs. Her poems have appeared in publications including Agenda, Magma, Rialto, Spectator and Stand. She is a five-times winner of The Poetry Society Members’ Competition and was long-listed in the National Poetry Competition.
Fourteen and fuelled
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Emma Dandy’s writing explores the fragmentation of identity after trauma. Publication of her debut pamphlet – I Laid Out Knives, Guns and Razors – is forthcoming with Hedgehog Poetry Press. She is a Creative Writing PhD student at the University of Birmingham. Insta: @emmadandypoetry
Under the Mersey
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Maria, from Liverpool, creates the hand-stitched poetry journal, Coast to Coast to Coast, and is writer in residence for Mersey Care NHS Trust, Maria has published six pamphlets -the latest, Subcutaneous, was winner of Lancaster LitFest, March 2025
Void
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Nina Parmenter’s first collection “Split, Twist, Apocalypse” was published by Indigo Dreams in 2022. Her pamphlet “Kiss Chase with Darwin” is forthcoming from Broken Sleep in November 2026. Based in Wiltshire, Nina runs the Trowbridge Stanza of the Poetry Society. Insta: @nina.parmenter Bluesky: @ninaparmenter.bsky.social Website: https://www.ninaparmenter.com
Milk
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Jean Atkin’s third full poetry collection ‘High Nowhere’ (IDP, 2023) was nominated for the 2024 Laurel Prize and Coast to Coast to Coast published her winning Individual Poet Journal in 2025. Her poetry has won competitions, been commissioned, anthologised, and featured on BBC Radio 4. Since 2010 Jean has worked as a poet in education and community.
Smoke
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John lives in Brixton, South London. He is Trustee of the Survivors’ Poetry collective. His poems have been/will be published in (among others) The Madrid Review, Iamb, After…, Full House Literary, Snow lit rev, Atrium, Broken Spine and Asylum. https://johnadlampoems.substack.com https://bsky.app/profile/johnadlam.bsky.social
Late
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James McDermott’s collections include ‘Father Myself’ and ‘Wild Life’, published by Nine Arches Press. James’s poems have been published in journals including Poetry Wales, The North, Magma, Butcher’s Dog and Fourteen Poems. He lectures in creative writing at UEA.
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