Salt and Peat on My Tongue
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Marion McCready has won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and the Melita Hume Poetry Prize. She is the author of two poetry collections from Eyewear Publishing. Her third collection, Look to the Crocus, is forthcoming from Shoestring Press.
Hero rat Magawa
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Note: Magawa, an African giant pouched rat, located more than 100 landmines and other unexploded weaponry over five years working for the charity APOPO in Cambodia. He died in 2022.
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Julian Dobson’s work has been published in print and online journals, most recently in Shearsman, Pennine Platform and Ink, Sweat & Tears. He lives in Sheffield.
Daybed
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Ed Roffe has been published in Lighthouse and Dear Reader. He recently concluded his MA in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes, and continues to live and write in the city of dreaming spires while working at the city’s other university.
Necessary and Sufficient
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Jonathan’s first collection, “Night Shift”, was published by Pindrop Press in 2020. His second collection, The Sessions, is due to be published at the end of this year. Jonathan lives in Oxfordshire where he works as a clinical psychologist/counsellor.
the doughnut souffle at whitstable bay
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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.
Dippy Eggs
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A past winner of the Trocaire/Poetry Ireland and Poems for Patience competitions, Maurice Devitt published his debut collection, ‘Growing Up in Colour’, with Doire Press in 2018. Curator of the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies site, his Pushcart-nominated poem, ‘The Lion Tamer Dreams of Office Work’, was the title poem of an anthology published by Hibernian Writers in 2015. His second collection ‘Some of These Stories are True’ is due from Doire in 2023.
States of Being #1
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Nichola Deane’s first collection, Cuckoo, was published in 2019 by V.Press. Her second pamphlet, Trieste (Smith Doorstop, 2015) was a Laureate’s Choice. Her first, My Moriarty, won the 2012 Flarestack Poetry Pamphlet Prize, and was PBS Autumn Pamphlet Choice 2012. www.nicholadeane.com
Shirley’s Dishes
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Peter J Donnelly lives in York where he works as a hospital secretary. He has a degree in English Literature and a MA in Creative Writing from the University of Wales Lampeter. His poetry has been published in various magazines and anthologies including Dreich, Southlight, One Hand Clapping, Obsessed with Pipework, Black Nore Review, High Window and Ink Sweat and Tears. He was a joint runner up in the Buzzwords open poetry competition in 2020 and won second prize in the Ripon Poetry Festival competition in 2021. His chapbook The Second of August is soon to be published by Alien Buddha Press.
On Seeing Red
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Abeer Ameer’s poems have appeared widely in publications including: Acumen, Poetry Wales, Planet and The Rialto. She is a member of poetry performance group, The Spoke. Her debut poetry collection, Inhale/ Exile, in which she shares stories of her Iraqi heritage, was published by Seren in February 2021.
Macha
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Macha is a warrior goddess in ancient Irish and Celtic Folklore, associated with land, fertility, war and horses. One tale tells of how, while pregnant, she raced the King’s horses, giving birth to truth and modesty as she won, and cursing the men of Ulster in her agony.
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R. M. Francis is a lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Wolverhampton. He’s the author of novels, Bella and The Wrenna and poetry collection, Subsidence. He is poet in residence for the Black Country Geological society. His next book, The Chain Coral Chorus, is a series of poems and essays that track this work.
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