a poem about heaven
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Simon Alderwick currently lives in Oxford, UK. His poetry has appeared in Magma, Berlin Lit, Poetry Salzburg, Anthropocene, Frogmore Papers, Dreich, IS&T, and elsewhere. A pamphlet, ways to say we’re not alone, is available through Broken Sleep Books.
Robot gardener too long without humans
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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 several print magazines. Sue won the Shepton Mallet prize 2024 and Hedgehog Press’s Little Black Book #2 competitions. Twitter/X: @spiropoetry https://www.spiropoetry.com/
This is the Day
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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.  Â
Dog
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Lapsed parachutist Laura Fyfe suffers from a chronic low boredom threshold. Her pamphlet ‘The Truth Lies’ is available from Red Squirrel Press. She lives in river deep, mountain high Stirlingshire and is the Stirling Makar.
Reservation, Granada (The Song of Indecision)
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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
With Love
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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.
A Daughter Leaves Home
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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.
Friday Street
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Chris Hemingway is a poet and songwriter from Gloucestershire. His most recent pamphlet ‘Tea Stains on The Reading List’ is available by email at chemingway6@gmail.com. In the day time he works as an accountant in the NHS.
The wall of glass
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Roger Bloor co-edits  The Alchemy Spoon, won the 2019 Poetry London Clore Prize, was highly commended in the AUB Poetry Competition 2021, commended in the 2022 Winchester Poetry Prize.  and his collection ‘Stacking Winter Wood’; was published by Vole (2021).
Making a Big Deal of Stuffed Vine Leaves
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Günaydın , haberler, ombesh translate as good morning, the news and fifteen in Turkish.
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Antonia Taylor is a British Cypriot communications strategist and poet. Her work has featured in publications including Propel, Ambit, Harana, Marble Magazine, Dear Reader, Ink Sweat & Tears, Indelible Literary Journal, and a new Two Rivers Press anthology. Antonia writes The Conversation, a newsletter on thoughtful marketing and creative business at https://antoniataylor.substack.com/ and can also be found on Instagram at @antoniataylorpr. She lives in Reading with her husband and two teens.
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