We’ve introduced you to the poets who have offered rewards, the poets we’ve published before and the debut poets, now the second half of the biggest group, experienced (indeed well-known!) poets who are new to publishing with us.
K. Angel (they/them) has been published with the Tin House Open Bar, PANK, the New Flash Fiction Review, and elsewhere. A two-time participant in the HBMG Foundation’s National Winter Playwrights Retreat and shortlisted for the Virago FURIES Competition, their projects straddle many forms and genres, with a persistent fixation on consent, desire, intentional community, and metamorphosis interruptus. They live in London, where they sometimes perform as the singing country drag king TrucK.
Lawrence Wilson’s fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in Albedo One, Cerasus, Agenda, Gramarye, One Hand Clapping, Best of British, The Darker Side of Love, on Salon.com and in other journals and collections. His collections, The April Poems, Another April, An Illustrated April, and Brick: Poems from the First Year of a Lockdown, are available on Amazon, as is his children’s novel, Mina, Etc. He is currently Facilitating Poet for the UK’s Rare Dementia Support Research Project.
Lydia Fulleylove has published three collections: Notes on Sea & Land, (HappenStance 2011) and Estuary, with artist Colin Riches, (Two Ravens 2014), Ampersand, Valley Press 2022). Her poem Night Drive was shortlisted for the Forward Best Single Poem. She has been published in a wide range of anthologies, magazines and other publications. She has worked extensively in community collaborative arts projects, including healthcare, prison and with young people.
Poet, editor and translator Maria Jastrzębska’s most recent collections are The True Story of Cowboy Hat and Ingénue (Cinnamon Press 2018) and Small Odysseys (Waterloo Press 2022). The Cedars of Walpole Park, her selected poems, were translated into Polish (Stowarzyszenie Żywych Poetów 2015). Filmpoems of her work can be found via www.snowqproject.com.
Robert Hamberger has been shortlisted and highly commended for Forward prizes. His fourth collection Blue Wallpaper (Waterloo Press) was shortlisted for the 2020 Polari Prize. His prose memoir with poems A Length of Road: Finding myself in the footsteps of John Clare was published by John Murray in 2021.
Sophia Blackwell is a performance poet with three published collections and the author of a novel. Her poetry has been anthologised by Bloodaxe, Nine Arches and The Emma Press among others.
Tom McLaughlin is a queer, Irish poet. He completed an MA in Creative Writing, with Distinction, at Royal Holloway and is now working on a practice-based PhD on queer domestic space at Surrey. His pamphlet Open Houses was published in 2021 by Marble Press. His poems have recently featured in publications such as Propel, Porridge, Alchemy Spoon and Channel, and he has work forthcoming in Broken Sleep’s anthology Masculinity.
Vron McIntyre (they/them) is a queer disabled non-binary poet, a longtime resident of Nottingham, and a member of the DIY Poets Collective. They perform frequently at online open mics, and run the Facebook group Poetry+ Events Online. Their work has been published by DIY Poets, Poetry and COVID, tattiezine, Impossible Archetype, and Wildfire Words, and in anthologies Geography is Irrelevant, The Spirit of Fire&Dust, and Dungheap Cockerel. Their debut poetry pamphlet Random Trail was published by Big White Shed in December 2021.
Zo Copeland (they/them) is a writer from South Devon. They are inspired by their lived experiences of queerness and disability, and by their magical experiences in nature. Zo writes to connect with people, evoke change, and challenge taboo subjects. When they are not writing, they’re usually found rummaging in compost or floating on water. Their work is published or forthcoming by Querencia Press, Vital Minutiae Quarterly, and Wishbone Words Magazine. You can find them on social media @zocowrites
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Becky Brookfield is a Northern poet who writes about class, gender and nature. Recently she has been writing and teaching in Cairo. In 2018 she published ‘All the Heavens are ours’ in October 2018 Patchwork Magazine – Mental Health Edition. She has been a featured poet at a variety of performance events in Merseyside. She has been a contributor for the People and Dancefloors Project both as a poet and on one of their podcasts as a reviewer in 2020 and 2021.
It’s been a while since, my face and neck going an incandescent shade of crimson, I felt the need to strip down to my cotton lacy vest (mmm, yes, natural fibres) in the middle of a supermarket, whatever the season, and press my body as much as I could against the fridge sections of dairy, milk and meat. As a veggie that was awkward, but cooling down was essential. Once the wild fires had passed, I’d cover up again until the next time….
