Author: Claire Walker

I'm a poet based in Worcestershire, UK. My poetry has appeared in print and online magazines including The Interpreter's House, Prole, Ink Sweat and Tears, And Other Poems, Clear Poetry, and Amaryllis, and in anthologies such as The Chronicles of Eve (Paper Swans Press). My first pamphlet, The Girl Who Grew Into a Crocodile, is published by V. Press. I'm a Poetry Reader for Three Drops Press, and Co-Editor of Atrium poetry webzine.

Pause – Lisa Falshaw

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Lisa Falshaw lives in West Yorkshire, but dreams of living in Kefalonia. She has several micro poems published in Black Bough anthologies. She has had poems placed in several competitions and won the Wakefield postcode prize in The Red Shed competition in 2021.  Facebook – LisaFalshaw Twitter – @LisaFal

mole control and fencing – Amaleena Damlé

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Amaleena Damlé is a poet and an academic literary critic, who lives in Durham. She writes scholarly and creative pieces about bodies and beings, and has poems in After…, Dreich, IceFloe Press, The French Literary Review and Sarasvati. Twitter: @AmaleenaDamle

Grocers – Robert Nisbet

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Robert Nisbet, a Welsh writer, was an associate lecturer in creative writing at Trinity College, Carmarthen, where he also worked as adjunct professor for the Central College of Iowa. His poems appear in Robeson, Fitzgerald and Other Heroes (Prolebooks, 2017). 

Featured Publication – Not Enough Rage by Gram Joel Davies

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Our featured publication for November and December is Not Enough Rage by Gram Joel Davies, published by V. Press.

‘It’s rare for me to recognise, and feel kinship for, a lot of contemporary poetry. I recognise and feel kinship with this. Not Enough Rage is like a series of controlled explosions. Trembling houses. A burning voice. Experience dismantled and sewn back together with glowing needles and a mouth full of stars.’ Bobby Parker

‘Like a Dylan Thomas of the age of mental illness, Gram Joel Davies leaps and flies through the world with dark exuberance. These are speakable poems, full of love for unlovable places and impossible people. In touch with but not tied to rap’s rhymes and rhythms, this collection, for me, shifts the modern world into the painful focus of real poetry.‘ Peter Oswald

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Gram Joel Davies grew up in a council house in the Westcountry. Working-class and university-educated, he is enthusiastic about psychotherapy and works as a counsellor in private practice. His poetry concerns itself with an experience of being (through rural and urban landscapes) and with belonging (in relationships marked by emotional disturbance). Publications have appeared over the decades in Magma, The Moth, Poetry Wales, The Centrifugal Eye and many other places. His debut collection, Bolt Down This Earth (2017), is also published by V. Press. Twitter: @g_r_a_m_j_d

Copies of Not Enough Rage can be purchased from the V. Press website, here.