Highlights of the Yorkshire Branch of Butterfly Conservation’s Members’ Day
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Matthew Paul hails from South London and lives in South Yorkshire. His second collection, The Last Corinthians, is published by Crooked Spire Press. His reviews regularly appear in The Friday Poem and elsewhere. He blogs at http://www.matthewpaulpoetry.blog
In case of critical error
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Leia is a tea-lover, procrastinator, and creator. Her most recent poetry can be found in Streetcake Magazine, Acropolis Journal and Roi Fainéant Press. She has poetry collections with Broken Sleep Books and Stanchion and Steel Incisors. Links: Bluesky at @leiabutler.bsky.social Website at https://leiabutler.com/
Three dreams of distress
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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 print magazines. Sue won the Shepton Mallet prize 2024 and Hedgehog Press’s Little Black Book #2 competitions.
I sometimes think of Winona Ryder
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Roy Marshall lives in Leicestershire where he works in adult education. His books are The Sun bathers (2013), The Great Animator (2017) and After Montale (2019). A new collection of poems, Light Work, will be published by Shoestring Press later this year.
Tell it to the Ghosts
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Nia Broomhall’s debut pamphlet Backalong won the Mslexia Pamphlet Prize 2023 and she won the Poetry Society’s Hamish Canham Award in 2024. Nia is Poet in Residence at Painshill Park in Surrey and co-Head of English at a comprehensive school. www.niabroomhall.co.uk
Seasonal Adjustment
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Neil won the Cinnamon Press debut collection prize with The Space Between Us, as well as their pamphlet prize with Codes of Conduct. Plenty of poems have followed in all sorts of mags and journals. He occasionally writes at https://neilelderpoetry.wordpress.com/
The Five o’clock Ferry Across the Mersey
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Maria, from Liverpool, creates Coast to Coast to Coast. Writer in residence for Mersey Care NHS Trust, Maria has published six pamphlets – the latest, winner of Litfest/ Wayeave Competition is Subcutaneous (2025, Wayleave Press) and a collaborative pamphlet with John Glenday.
Otters for 1 ¾ Miles
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Alice Stainer teaches English Literature and Creative Writing to visiting undergraduates in Oxford. Recent work appears in Dust, Bad Lilies and Under the Radar and her debut pamphlet Headlands came out in September 2024 as a winner in the Live Canon competition.
Milestone
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Niall M Oliver resides in Ireland with his wife and sons. His poems have appeared in Acumen, Atrium, The Honest Ulsterman, and he is the author of ‘We Will Eat Breakfast With Our Children’ by Nine Pens Poetry Press.
Six lies about my father
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Susannah Hart’s first collection Out of True won the 2018 Live Canon First Collection Prize. Susannah won the 2019 National Poetry Competition, is on the board of Magma Poetry and a member of the Poetry in Aldeburgh Organising Committee.
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