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.
Pissing
in memory of Ron Houchin
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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.
A Ghost Story
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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.
Without a parachute
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Cos is a Norwich based autistic Londoner. She had a poem shortlisted for the Grindstone Poetry Prize and published in their 2020 Anthology. As a child, she dreamed of socks that stay up and egg and chips in a café.
Skin
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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.
The Fall
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David Clarke’s first pamphlet Gaud won the Michael Marks Award in 2013. He has published two collections with Nine Arches Press (most recently The Europeans in 2019) and a further pamphlet, Scare Stories, with V Press. The Field in Winter will be published by Nine Arches in the autumn of 2023.
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