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.
Jeff’s poems are widely published, most recently in The Aftershock Review, The Alchemy Spoon, Black Nore Review. His pamphlet, Us, was shortlisted for the Live Canon prize. In July 2023 he was diagnosed with a neuro-degenerative condition.
Alexandra Citron was born in the US but has lived in the UK since her teens. Her poems have appeared in various places including Propel, iamb, And Other Poems, Ink Sweat & Tears and an Emma Press anthology. @alexcitronella.bsky.social – Bluesky @citronalexandra – Instagram
Peter J Donnelly was born in Middlesbrough and grew up in North Yorkshire. He was educated in York before taking a degree in English Literature at the University of Wales Lampeter, followed by a MA in Creative Writing. His poetry has appeared in various magazines and anthologies including The Starbeck Orion, The Broken Spine, Dreich, High Wolds Poetry Festival, Obsessed with Pipework, Ripon Poetry Festival, Lothlorien, York Literary Review, Dust, Black Nore Review, High Window, Hornblower Press, Tap into Poetry and The Fig Tree.. He was a joint runner up in the Buzzwords open poetry competition in 2020 and won second prize in the Ripon Poetry Festival competition in 2021. He is the author of three books, The Second of August, Solving the Puzzle and Bloom and Grow, all published by Alien Buddha Press. Peter J Donnelly lives in York.