A friend bakes sourdough
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Cindy Botha was born and raised in Africa and now lives in New Zealand. She began writing while caring for her mother through her dementia years. Her poems appear in magazines and anthologies in NZ, Australia, the UK and USA.
Dating Dr Jones
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Jane Bonnyman completed an MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University in 2022. Her most recent pamphlet ‘Dinner with Superman’ was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2020. She is currently working on her first collection.
Blood Rain
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Julie-Ann Rowell is a multi-award-winning poet whose work has won, and been shortlisted for, many prestigious awards, including her poem Fata Morgana which was Highly Commended in the Forward Prize Single Poem section, 2020/21. She lives in Orkney.
Bolero (for Laura)
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John is a group psychotherapist and an independent psycho-socialist researcher. He lives in Brixton and works in what’s left of NHS mental health services in South London. He is affiliated to the Survivors’ Poetry collective, and blogs as Barrelman https://barrelblog.org/
Kristian Birkeland observes the Northern Lights through a shot of Vodka
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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.
Parmentier presents his case for the potato to Louis XV
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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.
Otherness
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Tim Love’s publications are a poetry pamphlet “Moving Parts” (HappenStance) and a story collection “By all means” (Nine Arches Press). He lives in Cambridge, UK. His poetry has appeared in Magma, Rialto, Stand, The High Window, Oxford Poetry, etc. He blogs at http://litrefs.blogspot.com/ Bsky: @TimLoveWriter Facebook: www.facebook.com/tim.love.315
Mini fudge
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Elizabeth Osmond is a poet and neonatal doctor. Her work has been published online and in print, including previously in Atrium. In 2021 and 2024 she won prizes in the Hippocrates poetry competition. She is working on her first collection. @bethosmond.bsky.social
Holiday
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Jayant Kashyap is the author of three pamphlets, most recently Notes on Burials, which won the Poetry Business New Poets Prize in 2024.
Sequel
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Oz Hardwick is a European poet and academic, focusing mainly on prose poetry, who has published “a dozen or so” collections, most recently Retrofuturism for the Dispossessed (Hedgehog, 2024). He is Professor of Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University. www.ozhardwick.co.uk
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