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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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/
Highlights of the Yorkshire Branch of Butterfly Conservation’s Members’ Day
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Matthew Paul hails from South London and lives in South Yorkshire. His second collection, The Last Corinthians, is published by Crooked Spire Press. His reviews regularly appear in The Friday Poem and elsewhere. He blogs at http://www.matthewpaulpoetry.blog
In case of critical error
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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. Links: Bluesky at @leiabutler.bsky.social Website at https://leiabutler.com/
Three dreams of distress
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Sue Spiers works with Winchester Poetry Festival. Her poems appear with Atrium, The High Window, The Lake and Ink, Sweat & Tears and print magazines. Sue won the Shepton Mallet prize 2024 and Hedgehog Press’s Little Black Book #2 competitions.
I sometimes think of Winona Ryder
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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.
