Mother Was Selling
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Benedicta Norell’s poems appear widely in zines, reviews and anthologies. She is the author of Terrible Mother, published by Black Cat Poetry Press and available from Waterstones.com. Her first full collection, Menopause Party, is forthcoming in 2027 from Crumps Barn Studio.
Silver Street, London
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Charles G. Lauder, Jr, is an American poet who’s lived in the UK for over twenty-five years. He’s published one collection and three pamphlets, the latest of which is Year of the Rat, published in 2025 by Blueprint Poetry Press.
Little Jasmine
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Mark Czanik is of English/Hungarian descent. When not writing he walks with his wife, and salvages old films and music from charity shops. Recent poems and stories in Extra Teeth, Literally Stories, Fragmented Voices, Craft of Care, and Pennine Platform.
Visiting Dumfriesshire in 2026 we park
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Jean Atkin’s third collection ‘High Nowhere’ is available from IDP. She won the Coast to Coast to Coast competition in 2025. ‘Crossing Paths’ (Black Cat Press, 2026) is a collaboration with Richard Skinner. She works as a poet in education and community. www.jeanatkin.com
A Cemetery is a Birthday Party, is a Rave
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Matthew M C Smith is a Welsh poet from Swansea. His work can be read in Poetry Wales, Arachne Press, Ink Sweat and Tears and Atrium. He is writing a monograph on Robert Graves and Wales for the University of Wales Press and runs Black Bough poetry. Matthew is on Twitter, FB, Bluesky and Insta.
A Lesson
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Christopher’s pamphlet, Variety Turns, was published in 2024 by Broken Sleep. His poems have appeared in The Guardian, Anthropocene, The Friday Poem, and anthologies for Andrew Marvell and Peter Didsbury. He lives in Hull with his wife and two sons.
Questions on leaving
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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
Uprooted
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Paul Waring’s first collection, ‘Muckle Anima’, won the 2022 Dreich Chapbook Competition. ‘Quotidian’, his first pamphlet, was published by Yaffle (2019). He lives on the Wirral. http://www.waringwords.blog
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.
