Drawn to the Light Press Issue 4

Notes on Contributors Petra F. Bagnardi is a TV screenwriter, a playwright, and a poet. She was short-listed in the Enfield Poets' Twentieth Anniversary Poetry Competition, and her work was featured in Masque & Spectacle Literary Journal, Punk Noir Magazine, Trouvaille Review, Black Poppy Review, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Writing In A Woman's Voice, Poetica Review, Red Door Magazine, and Call Me [Progress].

Ben Banyard lives in Portishead, on the Severn Estuary near Bristol. His third collection, HiViz, will be published by YAFFLE Press later this year. He blogs at https://benbanyard.wordpress.com and tweets @bbanyard.

Yvonne Boyle has has had a range of poems published in a variety of magazines, books and anthologies. She was a N I Arts Council Support for the Individual Artist (SIAP) Awardee 2018/2019. She is a WomenAloudNI member and a Causeway Coast and Glens Councillor.

Catherine Brennan is a visual artist from Laois and part of the Laois Arthouse Collective.

Time and space during lockdown was spent expanding her work to include writing and photography. A solo exhibition in 2020 has led to other exhibitions throughout Ireland. She had work published in Ireland and internationally. She co-curated the Collectives exhibition in Dunamaise Arts Centre, also exhibiting and writing for it. Her work is emotion based, examining all sides of a conversation and the resulting solution is shown in her work.

Róisín Bugler's work has been published in Boyne Berries, Ropes, The Poetry Bus, Sonder Magazine and Quarryman and various online publications. She coordinates ‘A Flow of Words’ literary show on Scariff Bay Community Radio. She was the winner of Strokestown Percy French prize for Witty Verse and runner up in the Padraic Colum International Gathering competition, both 2019.

Eoin Cahill is based in Cork, Ireland. A husband and father of two boys. Enjoys writing poems but is deeply uncomfortable writing non-fiction, particularly short third-person biographies about himself. His work is published in Dreich Magazine. Find him on Twitter @eoinspoems Simon Cockle is a poet from Hertfordshire, England. His first collection, River Lane (Arenig Press) was published in 2018. His poems have appeared in Envoi, iOTA, Dreamcatcher, The Lampeter Review and Prole Poetry. In 2020, he was selected for the Ver Open Prize. He was invited to read at the Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2016. 2017, 2019 and 2021.

Rose Cook is a poet who lives in Devon. She is a well-known South West poet who performs regularly at local poetry events. Rose co-founded the popular Devon poetry and performance forum One Night Stanza, as well as poetry performance group Dangerous Cardigans. She worked as an Apples and Snakes poet, performing in venues from the Soho Theatre in London, the Bristol Poetry Festival and throughout Devon. Her poetry has been published in six collections, her latest is called Shedding Feathers (published by Hen Run, Grey Hen Press).

Originally from Co Limerick, Bernie Crawford lives in Co Galway and her poetry has been published in national and international journals and anthologies. Her first full collection, 50