The dragon is back but it doesn’t feel like twelve years
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Elizabeth Gibson lives in Manchester. Poems have appeared in Atrium, Butcher’s Dog, Fourteen Poems, Lighthouse, Magma, The North, and Under the Radar. Elizabeth’s debut collection, A love the weight of an animal, will be published by Confingo in Autumn 2024.
Pirate-Girl
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Jane Bonnyman has just finished an MA in Creative Writing at Newcastle University. Her most recent pamphlet ‘Dinner with Superman’ was published by Red Squirrel Press in 2020. She is currently working on her first collection.
My Face is a Haibun
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Katie Beswick is a writer from south east London. Her poems have recently appeared in Ink Sweat & Tears; Harpy Hybrid Review; English: Journal of the English Association and Mukoli: The Magazine for Peace, among others. Her debut chapbook Plumsted Pram Pushers, is forthcoming from Red Ogre in summer 2024. http://katiebeswick.com
Final Score
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Matthew M. C. Smith is a Welsh poet published in Poetry Wales, Arachne Press and Broken Spine. His last book was The Keeper of Aeons (2022). He collects vintage Star Wars figures and signed poetry books. Matthew edits Black Bough Poetry. Twitter: MatthewMCSmith Also on Insta and FB.
Toad
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Chris Rice’s work has appeared widely in magazines. Extracts from a literary memoir, Diary of a Pembridge Poet, can be found online at The London Magazine. His second collection, In Transit, was published in May 2024 by Pindrop Press.
All the Mums
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Julia Webb is a neurodiverse writer/collage artist from a working class background. Her third collection The Telling was published by Nine Arches Press in May 2022. She is steering editor for Lighthouse – a journal for new writers.
Poets and their Darlings
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Paul Stephenson has three pamphlets: Those People (Smith/Doorstop, 2015), The Days that Followed Paris (HappenStance, 2016) and Selfie with Waterlilies (Paper Swans Press, 2017). His debut collection Hard Drive was published by Carcanet in summer 2023. Website: paulstep.com / Instagram: paulstep456 / X: @stephenson_pj
Breathe
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Ian Glass lives in Worcestershire where he works as a computer programmer. His poems have appeared in online and print publications, including Acumen, Atrium, Ink Sweat & Tears, Prole and Rialto. His pamphlet ‘About Leaving’ was published by V-Press in 2019.
The White Doe
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Roy Marshall’s books are The Sun Bathers (2013), The Great Animator (2017) and After Montale (2019). A new collection, Light Work is scheduled for publication next year.
A wire across Niagara Falls
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Rachel Curzon received an Eric Gregory award in 2007. Her debut pamphlet was published under the Faber New Poets scheme, while more recent work has appeared in Ink, Sweat & Tears, Magma and Propel Magazine. She lives in Yorkshire.
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