Journey
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D.A. Prince lives in Leicestershire and London. Her second full-length collection (Common Ground, HappenStance, 2014) won the East Midlands Book Award 2015. Her third collection, The Bigger Picture (also from HappenStance) was published in 2022.
On Collecting Every Whisker Lost by Every Cat in the World
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Laura Strickland is a carer from Yorkshire. Her work has appeared in The North, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Dreamcatcher, Northern Gravy, Strix, The Frogmore Papers and Butcher’s Dog. She was longlisted in the National Poetry Competition 2023.
Sweetheart, You’re A Pirate Now
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Suzanna Fitzpatrick (she/her) is a bisexual poet with poems on Radio 4 and widely published in magazines and anthologies in the UK, US, Ireland and Canada. Her pamphlets are Fledglings (2016), and Crippled (due 2025) (both Red Squirrel Press, UK).
provision
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Aimee Kiley is an after-hours writer living in Dublin and working in healthcare. Born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa, she has made Dublin’s North Inner City her home since 2022, along with her husband and adopted greyhound. Instagram: @diggingforpoems
I’ve been overdoing it of late
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Paul Stephenson’s debut collection ‘Hard Drive’ was published by Carcanet in summer 2023 and was shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize.
I found out
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Judith Taylor lives in Aberdeen, where she co-organises the monthly Poetry at Books and Beans events. Her latest collection, Across Your Careful Garden, is published by Red Squirrel Press. She is one of the Editors of Poetry Scotland. Website: http://sometimesjudy.co.uk/
Estuary
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Chris Powici lives in Perthshire. For many years he taught creative writing for the University of Stirling and the Open University, but now concentrates on writing poems and essays. His latest poetry collection is Look, Breathe (Red Squirrel Press). Chris is co-editor of New Writing Scotland and one of the writers behind the climate change campaign group and e-zine ‘Paperboats’: https://paperboats.org/writings
Take the collared dove
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Elaine Ewart is a poet and writer of creative non-fiction, based in North Yorkshire. Her poetry has been published in various journals, including The Interpreter’s House, The Rialto and bath magg. She tweets @EwartElaine and blogs occasionally at flightfeather.wordpress.com
Perseids
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D.A.Prince lives in Leicestershire and London. Her second full-length collection (Common Ground, HappenStance, 2014) won the East Midlands Book Award 2015. Her third collection, The Bigger Picture (also from HappenStance) was published in 2022.
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.
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