Self-portrait as a barbed wire fence
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Amy Dugmore is a poet and copywriter from the West Midlands. Her poems have appeared in The Madrigal and Under My Pillow anthology. You can find her on Twitter @AL_Dugmore
Overtime
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Judith Taylor lives in Aberdeen, where she co-organises the monthly Poetry at Books and Beans events and is one of the Editors of Poetry Scotland. Her new collection, Across Your Careful Garden, is published by Red Squirrel Press. http://sometimesjudy.co.uk/
Long Distance
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Vasiliki’s poems have appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry London, Wasafiri, Oxford Poetry and elsewhere. She won Poetry International’s chapbook competition and the Poetry Society’s 2022 Stanza competition, jointly, Live Canon’s pamphlet competition and was commended in the National Poetry competition.
Attention seeker
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Marcello Giovanelli is a poet from Leicestershire, UK. Recent poems have been published in Allegro Poetry Magazine, Dear Reader, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Full House Lit, Erato Magazine, Green Ink Poetry, The Poetry Village and Poetry Plus. @mmgiovanelli.
You accuse me of farming
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Sarah O’Connor is an Irishwoman in London, working backstage in opera. Her poetry has appeared in Abridged, Bangor Literary Journal, Broken Spine, Green Ink, Honest Ulsterman, Ink Sweat & Tears, and anthologiesfrom Fly on the Wall and Victorina Press.
Proposal behind Tate Liverpool
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Maria, from Liverpool, creates the hand-stitched poetry journal, Coast to Coast to Coast. Writer in residence for Mersey Care NHS, Maria’s most recent works are Painting the Mersey (Hazel Press, 2022), and a collaborative work, mira, with John Glenday (2020).
Peggy Poole Award Coast to Coast to Coast Hand-Stitched Journals
And still have longed for more
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Lesley Curwen is a poet and broadcaster living in Plymouth. Her collaborative pamphlet ‘Invisible Continents’ was published in May by Nine Pens and she was highly commended in the Poetry Wales Award. She sometimes writes about her family’s experience of forced adoption and coercive control. Her twitter (X) handle is @elcurwen and she blogs at www.lesleycurwenpoet.com.
Last Photos
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Thea Smiley’s poems have been shortlisted in the Live Canon Collection competition, longlisted in the Rialto Nature and Place competition, commended in Poets and Players and Ware Poets competitions, and published in The Alchemy Spoon, Finished Creatures, and Butcher’s Dog.
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Paul Stephenson has three pamphlets: Those People (Smith/Doorstop, 2015), The Days that Followed Paris (HappenStance, 2016), written after the November 2015 terrorist attacks; and Selfie with Waterlilies (Paper Swans Press, 2017). He curates Poetry in Aldeburgh. His debut collection Hard Drive was published by Carcanet in summer 2023.
Thaw
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Kerry Darbishire lives in Cumbria, a landscape that inspires her poetry. She has three collections, two pamphlets and a ‘watery’ third which co-won the Hedgehog Press pamphlet prize and will be published in 2024. Her poems appear widely in magazines and anthologies and recently she was poet in residence this August at Rydal Mount, the final home of Wordsworth.
