Refusal
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Laura’s work appears in Poetry, Oxford Poetry, Northern Gravy, The Caterpillar, Magma, Rattle, Aesthetica, iamb, etc. Her new collection Introduction to Cloud Care and her children’s debut Poems from a Witch’s Pocket are both forthcoming in 2025.
Body-swap
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Lesley Curwen is a poet and broadcaster from Plymouth. She won the Molecules Unlimited Poetry Prize and was a finalist in Wales Poetry Award. Her pamphlet ‘Rescue Lines’ is published by Hedgehog and another, ‘Sticky with Miles’ by Dreich. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and 3 times for BOTN. Her work has been published by Bad Lilies, Dust, Winged Moon, Broken Sleep, Spelt, Black Bough, Broken Spine & East Ridge Review. Website: www.lesleycurwenpoet.com @elcurwen.bskyb.social Insta/X @elcurwen
The Beam
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Nia Broomhall’s debut pamphlet Backalong won the Mslexia Pamphlet Prize 2023 and she won the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Award in 2024. Nia is Poet in Residence at Painshill Park in Surrey and co-Head of English at a comprehensive school.
I wish I had a Sylvia Plath Rolling Pin
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Rachel Burns is published in literary magazines including 14 Magazine, Butcher’s Dog, The Rialto, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Atrium, The Friday Poem, Magma and The London Magazine. Her poetry pamphlet, a girl in a blue dress, is published by Vane Women Press. Socials: X @RachelLBurnsme INSTA rachelburns3224
Everyone’s Trying on Their Old Nuclear War Poems
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Erik Kennedy’s most recent book is Another Beautiful Day Indoors (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2022). A new book, Sick Power Trip, is coming later in 2025. Originally from New Jersey, he lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch in Aotearoa New Zealand. Bluesky: erikkennedy.com.
Whenever I see you
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Jeanette Burton is a poet from Belper in Derbyshire. Her poetry has previously appeared in Mslexia, Poetry Wales, The Friday Poem, Dust, Atrium, IS&T and Dreich. She has been placed in several competitions, winning first prize in McLellan (2021), Ware (2022) and Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists (2023). Her debut pamphlet, Ostriches: Ten Poems about My Dad, is published by Candlestick Press.
It opens the fridge door, closes it, re-opens it in silence
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Nora Nadjarian is a poet and fiction writer from Cyprus. Her work was published in The Interpreter’s House, Magma, Perverse, Dust and elsewhere. Her poetry collection Iktsuarpok was published by Broken Sleep Books.
The owls
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Susannah Hart’s first collection Out of True won the 2018 Live Canon First Collection Prize. Susannah won the 2019 National Poetry Competition, is on the board of Magma Poetry and a member of the Poetry in Aldeburgh Organising Committee.
A Temporary Solace
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Ronita Chattopadhyay is an Indian poet who finds refuge in words. Her work has appeared in The Hooghly Review, Roi Fainéant Press, Akéwì, RIC Journal, Porch Lit Magazine, Dreich, among others, and anthologies by Querencia Press and Sídhe Press. Twitter: ronita_c Bluesky: ronita.bsky.social
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