Mary in Dundee
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Judith Taylor lives in Aberdeen, where she co-organises the monthly Poetry at Books and Beans events. Her latest collection, Across Your Careful Garden, is published by Red Squirrel Press. She is one of the Editors of Poetry Scotland.
Website: http://sometimesjudy.co.uk/ Publisher: https://www.redsquirrelpress.com/poetry?Author=Judith%20Taylor
And Eliza
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Former Worcestershire Poet Laureate Heather Wastie published her ninth poetry collection, You Are Here, in April 2025. It includes her own photography and has been described by Jo Bell as ‘…the best account I have read of lockdown and its mixed legacies’. Website: http://wastiesspace.co.uk/ Instagram: @heatherwastie BlueSky: @heatherwastie.bsky.social Facebook group: Wastie’s Space
I Eat the Moon
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Antonia Kearton is a counsellor & psychotherapist, and occasional poet, based in Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands. She has been published in several journals including Dust Poetry, Atrium, Northwords Now and Black Nore Review
After Victoria dies, I drive to Shoreham
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Oxfordshire-based poet and theatre-maker Tina Sederholm has performed at festivals and theatres nationwide for over twenty years, including seven Edinburgh Fringes. Her collections, Everything Wrong With You Is Beautiful and This Is Not Therapy, are published by Burning Eye. www.tinasederholm.substack.com www.tinasederholm.com
Fireweed
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Ruth Higgins has published poems with Alba, Arachne Press, Ink Sweat & Tears and Strix Magazine. A poem was commended in the Verve Festival competition 2025.
Words and music for a wounded network
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Dominic Fisher lives in Bristol, was a co-editor of Raceme magazine, was highly commended in Poetry Wales Award 2025, is widely published, and sometimes broadcast. His second collection, A Customised Selection of Fireworks, was published by Shoestring Press in 2022. https://dominicfisherpoetry.co.uk/ Bluesky @domfishpoet.bsky.social & Facebook
All you need to know is
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Leia is a tea-lover, procrastinator, and creator. Her most recent poetry can be found in Streetcake Magazine, Acropolis Journal and Roi Fainéant Press. She has poetry collections with Broken Sleep Books and Stanchion and Steel Incisors.
Links: Bluesky at @leiabutler.bsky.social Website at https://leiabutler.com/
A Celebration
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Roy Marshall lives in Leicestershire where he works in adult education. His books are The Sun bathers (2013), The Great Animator (2017) and After Montale (2019). A new collection of poems, Light Work, will be published by Shoestring Press later this year.
Sonnet for Perimenopause
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Victoria Spires is published in Berlin Lit & The London Magazine. She has been commended/shortlisted in: Ledbury, TPW Prize, Aesthetica Arts, Artemesia Arts, Plough Prize. She came Third in the Rialto Nature competition. Her pamphlet Soi-même is available from Salo.
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