Strings & Whistles
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Simon Maddrell has appeared in AMBIT, The Moth, The Rialto, Poetry Wales, Stand, Under the Radar and many others. He has five pamphlets with his fifth, a finger in derek jarman’s mouth, published by Polari Press in Feb. 2024.
Medical Textbooks are Mostly Written by Men
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Ilse Pedler is the winner of the 2015 Mslexia Pamphlet Competition with The Dogs That Chase Bicycle Wheels. Her first collection Auscultation was published in 2021 by Seren. She lives and works part time as a Veterinary Surgeon in Kendal. www.ilsepedler.com
7 Years Later I Still Make Laksa, 7 Years Later I Still Look for Him
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Holly Winter-Hughes is a poet, researcher and therapeutic writing facilitator with an interest in restorying embodied trauma. She has been recently published or is upcoming in Clarion, Impossible Archetype and Tears in the Fence. Her collection ‘How to Leave a Body…’ is out in May 2025 and can be pre-ordered through Verve or www.hollywinterhughes.com.
In Those Uniform Days
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Peter Raynard is a disabled working class poet and previously editor of Proletarian Poetry (www.proletarianpoetry.com). His latest collection, Manland, was published by Nine Arches Press, in 2022.
A temporary arrangement
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Ian Badcoe (he/they) is a nonbinary poet from Sheffield. He also has a long-term collaboration with German Indie Rock singer/composer Hallam London and their album: Be Yourself in Eleven Easy Lessons, is available in the usual places. Ian’s site: https://ianbadcoe.uk/ Hallam London: https://hallamlondon.com/
Hypervigilance
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Helen Evans runs two poetry projects: Inner Room, and Poems for the Path Ahead. Her debut pamphlet was ‘Only by Flying’ (HappenStance Press). Her work has been widely published in magazines, and features in ‘Mariscat Sampler One’ (Mariscat Press 2024).
Batwatching
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Ella is a writer whose work has appeared in Abridged, Poetry Ireland Review and New Word Order. She graduated from NUIG with a BA in Creative Writing in 2021, and is currently living and writing in Cork City.
I need to talk to you
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Daragh Fleming is an a writer from Cork, Ireland. His debut in nonfiction, a collection of essays on mental health called Lonely Boy, is published by BookHub Publishing. He has work appearing in many literary magazines and has been shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize, and was highly commended for both the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the Fool For Poetry Prize. Twitter: @daraghfleming Website: thoughtstoobig.ie
Rear View
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Sara has poems in Washing Windows IV (2024) and Her Other Language (2020). Long-listed for the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing (2018) and shortlisted for North West Words (2019), Sara is undertaking a Poetry MA in QUB.
Care
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Rosalie Alston has poems printed in Kinship, Voices Along the Road, Poetry Space, Spelt, Black Lives Matter and in adoption anthologies. She has poems published online by the Poetry Village, Poetry Kit, PoetryandCovid, Dust and The Literary Platform.
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