The Future
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Ace Boggess is author of six books of poetry, including Escape Envy (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2021), I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So, and The Prisoners. His writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes and tries to stay out of trouble. His seventh collection, Tell Us How to Live, is forthcoming in 2024 from Fernwood Press.
Rich man, poor man
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Vicki Husband’s first collection of poetry, This Far Back Everything Shimmers, was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year 2016. A pamphlet-poem, Sykkel Saga, was published in 2019. Vicki lives in Glasgow and works for the NHS.
Strawberry Towel
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Doug is an award-winning spoken word poet based in Edinburgh. He has toured internationally as a performance poet, and was also the 2019 StAnza slam champion. His work has previously been published by Coin Operated Press.
Vestige
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Fiona Larkin’s pamphlets are A Dovetail of Breath (Rack Press, 2020) and Vital Capacity (Broken Sleep, 2022). Her debut collection, Rope of Sand, appears with Pindrop Press summer 2023; the title poem was highly commended in the Forward Prizes. She manages innovative projects with Corrupted Poetry.
Ghost in the Attic
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Michelle Dennehy read English at Oxford University. Her poems have featured in journals including Amphibian, Bangor Literary Journal, Drawn to the Light Press and The Honest Ulsterman. Her poems have been published in anthologies from Dedalus Press and CAP Arts, Belfast.
when easter comes my brother will lose a badger in his beard
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Laurie Eaves’ collection Biceps is out on Burning Eye Books. His work has been published by Bad Betty Press, Ink Sweat & Tears, Poetry Rivals and Dear Reader. He co- hosts the Dead Darlings podcast and co-produces the Genesis Poetry Slam.
Delivery
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Becoming the Fifth Manx Bard in 2018, Annie Kissack is a writer and spoken-word performer from the Isle of Man. Her first collection, ‘Mona Sings’, a book of Manx-themed poetry, was published in October 2022. Facebook: @anniekissackpoetry
Life as box set actor
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Leicestershire-based Tim Relf has had poems in The Spectator, Acumen, The Rialto and The Frogmore Papers. He is an alumnus of Faber’s Advanced Poetry Academy. His most recent novel, published by Penguin, has been translated into more than 20 languages. Find him on Twitter at @timrelf
If you Remember the Sixties
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Oz Hardwick’s tenth collection, A Census of Preconceptions, is published by SurVision Books. He has won countless prizes, mostly in raffles, and feels that feeling awkward is close enough to an award as makes no difference. www.ozhardwick.co.uk
The Preoccupations Of Women
Nechells, Birmingham, October 1912
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Sheila Jacob lives in N. E. Wales with her husband. Born and raised in Birmingham, she finds her Brummie ancestry a source of inspiration. She’s working on her first collection.
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