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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.
Fireweed – Ruth Higgins
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.
Words and music for a wounded network – Dominic Fisher
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 – Leia Butler
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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.Â
Links: Bluesky at @leiabutler.bsky.social Website at https://leiabutler.com/
A Celebration – Roy Marshall
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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. Â
Sonnet for Perimenopause – Victoria Spires
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.
UFO – Em Gray
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Em Gray is a neurodivergent poet living in Brighton, UK. She has been highly commended by the Forward Prize, shortlisted for the Creative Future Writers’ Award and has won second prize in the Mslexia Poetry Competition. Bluesky – @em-words.bsky.social
Through – Michael Conley
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Michael Conley is a poet from Manchester, UK. His poetry has been Highly Commended in the Forward Prize. His latest pamphlet, “These Are Not My Dreams And Anyway Nothing Here Is Purple” is available from Nine Pens. He won the 2022 Peggy Poole Prize.
brassband – Nia Broomhall
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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. www.niabroomhall.co.uk @niaandthepoems
Half-dream – Pippa Little
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Pippa Little’s third collection Time Begins to Hurt came out from Arc in 2022. She is currently working on her next book and teaching a poetry course with the Faber Academy in Newcastle.Â
Almost – Neil Elder
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Neil won the Cinnamon Press debut collection prize with The Space Between Us, as well as their pamphlet prize with Codes of Conduct. Plenty of poems have followed in all sorts of mags and journals. He occasionally writes at https://neilelderpoetry.wordpress.com/
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