The Magic Age (after Jenny Joseph)
Jonathan Humble lives in Cumbria. He edits the Dirigible Balloon showcasing poetry for children. He delivers poetry workshops in schools for Wordsworth Grasmere and appeared as the Poet in a Fridge during the BBC Contains Strong Language Festival in Carlisle.
The Man who Sat Waiting for a Bird to Sit on his Finger
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Adam is a British poet living in Italy. This year he took part in the first cohort of Out-Spoken Academy. He is published in I’ll Show You Mine, VAINE, Dust and Magma. Italian translations of some of his works are forthcoming with Taut Editori. Adam’s debut pamphlet Cupid, Grown was awarded second place in the Paper Swans Pamphlet Prize and was shortlisted for the Poetry London Pamphlet Prize.
This should’ve been a sign
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Maddie Forest is originally from Finland but now based in Bath, and has appeared in Atrium Poetry, Ink Sweat & Tears, and Tears in the Fence. After completing her BA and MA in Creative Writing, she took a break from writing, but is now picking up the pen again. You can find her on social media @ItsMaddiehbu
Far Cry
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Patrick Wright has a poetry collection, Full Sight of Her (Black Spring), which was nominated for the John Pollard Prize. His poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The North, Southword, Poetry Salzburg, Agenda, Wasafiri, and London Magazine.
what my skin cells aim to achieve in the years left to me
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Caspar Bryant is a poet from West Cornwall. Caspar’s work can be found in SPAM, Alchemy Spoon, And Other Poems, Propel Magazine, Ink Sweat & Tears, and Broken Sleep’s anthology of Cornish poets, among others.
Church Rock is
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George Sandifer-Smith is a Welsh poet. He has published two collections, Nights Travel at the Right Speed (Infinity Books UK) and Empty Trains (Broken Sleep Books).
Mycena Haematopus
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Corinna Board teaches English as an additional language in Oxford. Her poetry has appeared in Spelt, Anthropocene, The Alchemy Spoon and elsewhere. Her debut pamphlet will be published this year by The Black Cat Poetry Press. Twitter – @CorinnaBoard Instagram – @Parole_de_reveuse
Relic
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David Calcutt is a playwright and poet from Walsall in the West Midlands. He has written extensively for theatre, radio and community theatre, and several of his plays for young people are published by Oxford University Press. As a poet his work has appeared in a wide range of UK magazines, and in three pamphlets and one full collection. David has also successfully run several community theatre and writing projects, and facilitated a number of writing groups across the Midlands.Â
career move
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Penelope Shuttle lives in Cornwall. Lyonesse appeared from Bloodaxe Books, June 2021, long-listed for the Laurel Prize. Covid/Corvid, in collaboration with Alyson Hallett, was published by Broken Sleep Books, September 2021. Noah, a pamphlet, appears from Broken Sleep in 2023. website: http://www.penelopeshuttle.co.uk, http://www.bloodaxebooks.com, http://www.brokensleepbooks .com
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Lisa Falshaw lives in West Yorkshire, but dreams of living in Kefalonia. She has several micro poems published in Black Bough anthologies. She has had poems placed in several competitions and won the Wakefield postcode prize in The Red Shed competition in 2021. Facebook – LisaFalshaw Twitter – @LisaFal
