Notes on Contributors

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, Living Water, was published by Chaffinch Press in June 2021. She is on the editorial board of the poetry magazine Skylight 47. Kate Meyer-Currey was born in 1969 and moved to Devon in 1973. A varied career in frontline settings has fuelled her interest in gritty urbanism, contrasted with a rural upbringing, whilst her ADHD instils a sense of ‘other’ in her writing. She has over fifty poems in print and e journals. ‘Gloves’ recently made top 100 in the UK’s ‘PoetryforGood’ competition for healthcare workers. Her first chapbook ‘County Lines’ (Dancing Girl Press) comes out this year. Michelle Dennehy read English at Oxford University, and holds a Masters degree in Novel Writing. She turned to poetry in the first lockdown, and got hooked. Her poems have been published in 'The Honest Ulsterman' and 'The Bangor Journal'.

Ger Duffy lives in Co Waterford. Her poems have been published in Slow Dancer (UK), The Womens’ Press (UK), Viking Press (UK) Voxgalvia, Pendemic, In the Midst (US) and The Waxed Lemon. She was the recipient of a Mentoring Award in Poetry from The Munster Literature Centre in 2021.

A past winner of the Trocaire/Poetry Ireland and Poems for Patience competitions, Maurice Devitt published his debut collection, ‘Growing Up in Colour’, with Doire Press in 2018. Curator of the Irish Centre for Poetry Studies site, his Pushcart-nominated poem, ‘The Lion Tamer Dreams of Office Work’, was the title poem of an anthology published by Hibernian Writers in 2015.

Marguerite Doyle holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from Dublin City University. She studied Russian at Trinity College and has a particular interest in the work of the Russian female poets. Her work has been published in Reliquiae Journal, The Galway Review, The New Welsh Reader, Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, The Ogham Stone and the Ireland Chair of Poetry Commemorative Anthology, 'Hold Open the Door'. Marguerite is a full-time family carer.

Michael Durack lives in County Tipperary. His work has featured in journals such as The Blue Nib, The Honest Ulsterman, Boyne Berrries and Poetry Ireland Review and has aired on local and national radio. Publications include a memoir, Saved to Memory: Lost to View (2016) and two poetry collections, Where It Began ( 2017) and Flip Sides (2020) from Revival Press.

Blake Everitt (b.1989) spends time on the Isle of Wight and in southwestern France. His poems have appeared in a range of journals, including: Plumwood Mountain: An Australian Journal of Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, Pensive: A Global Journal of Spirituality and the Arts, Hawk & Whippoorwill, Time of Singing, Harbinger Asylum and The Dawntreader.

Billy Fenton lives in South Kilkenny. His work has been published in the Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, Irish Independent, Crannóg, Honest Ulsterman, Abridged, Crossways, and many others. He was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award in 2018, the Fish poetry prize in 2021, and was chosen as a mentee for the Words Ireland National Mentoring Programme in 2019.

Bernadette Gallagher is based in Cork. Her poetry has been published in print in the US, UK and Ireland and recorded by the University College Dublin Poetry Archive. She has been invited to read her work in Ireland, UK, US, and at the Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi, India. bernadettegallagher.blogspot.ie

A Computer Science Engineer with a Masters in Management from Imperial College London, Mehak Goyal ran a couple of profitable start-ups, before committing herself to becoming a full-time writer. Shortlisted for the Sakhi Awards and the Cinnamon press literature awards, her writings have appeared or are forthcoming in The American Journal of Poetry, Magma Poetry, One Art, Sky Island Journal, The Madra Courier (India), ANGLES, Visual Verse and more. She is working on her first poetry collection. Follow her on IG and twitter @poetic_quill.

California-raised, CR Green now lives and writes poetry in Christchurch, New Zealand. She enjoys meeting other poets in writing workshops. Her poetry and short stories have been published in publications such as The Loyalhanna Review, Close to the Boneyard, The Reach of Song, The Poetry Distillery, and a fine line. Recently, a poem been shortlisted for the New Zealand Society of Authors Heritage Literary Awards.

Lydia Harris lives in the Orkney island of Westray. She held a Scottish Book Trust New Writers’ Award in 2017. Her first full collection is due from Pindrop next year.

Ceinwen E Cariad Haydon, MA Creative Writing, Newcastle, UK, 2017, lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and writes short stories and poetry. She has been widely published in web magazines and in print anthologies and is a Pushcart and Forward Prize nominee. She believes everyone’s voice counts.

R. W. Haynes, Professor of English at Texas A&M International University, teaches early British literature and Shakespeare. His collections Laredo Light (Cyberwit) and Let the Whales Escape (Finishing Line Press) appeared in 2019, and another collection titled Heidegger Looks at the Moon comes out in November 2021 from Finishing Line.

Deirdre Anne Hines is an award winning poet and playwright. Her first book of poems ' The Language of Coats' was published by New Island Books in 2012 and includes the poems which won The Listowel Poetry Collection Award. New poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Crannóg, The Lake, Three Drops from a Cauldron, The Bombay Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Abridged, Elsewhere to name a few. She was shortlisted for The Bridport Poetry Prize 2020 and The Fish Poetry Prize 2020. Poetry reviews of hers have appeared in Riggwelter, Sabotage, PN Review, Rochford Street Review and The Dublin Review of Books. She has advocated on mental health issues as they intersect with accommodation for many years.

Jefferson Holdridge was born in White Plains, NY, and raised in Connecticut, and has travelled widely throughout Italy and Ireland. Among his publications are four books of poetry, the most recent being The Wells of Venice (Eugene: 2020). He is a Professor of English at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Jorge Leiva is from South Spain and lived in Ireland for over eight years. Some of his work has appeared in Skylight 47, The Galway Advertiser, Drawn to the Light Press, Headstuff.org,

Dodging the Rain, 2 Meter Review, Spilling Cocoa Over Martin Amis and The Waxed Lemon. In 2019 he was long listed in the Over the Edge New Writer of the Year competition.

Mathew Lyons is a London-based writer. His poems have appeared in Atrium Poetry, Dawn Treader, Dust Magazine, Ink, Sweat and Tears, The Lake, Nine Muses and Visual Verse.

Alison McCrossan writes poetry and fiction. Her work has been published by The Honest Ulsterman, Southword, Impossible Archetype, Orbis, Prole, Crannóg, Poethead, SurVision, and elsewhere.

Cáit O'Neill McCullagh is a straying archaeologist, at home in the Highlands of Scotland. She writes for journals and edited volumes. Her recent work includes chapters on Shetland’s Up-Helly-A, and Orcadian poet George Mackay Brown. New to poetry, her poems have been published in Northwords Now, Bella Caledonia, and the Banyan Review.

Jay Mitra (they/them) is a non-binary punk poet and artist based in Hull/Manchester. Born in India but raised in Yorkshire, they have spent their life merging two cultures into one fivefoot body.

Polly Richardson Munnelly currently lives and writes in Dingle, Co. Kerry, Ireland. Co-host & MC for Impspired lit mag poetry nights, she continues to run groups the Bulls Arse Writers & Worldly Worders remotely. She has been published both nationally and internationally. Her collection Winter’s Breath is available on Amazon.

Frank Murphy was the winner of The Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award Poetry 2009. Recently he was shortlisted for The Trim Poetry Festival 2021 and gained an Honourable Mention in the Douglass Week Poetry Competition 2021. Published many places. Editor of The Meath Writers' Circle Annual Magazine.

Mark A. Murphy is an Ace poet, living with GAD, and OCD. His work has appeared in The Magnolia Review, ISACOUSTIC and Dreich Magazine. He has poems forthcoming in Cultural Weekly and Acumen.

Eugene O'Hare was shortlisted for the 2021 poetry prize at Belfast Book Festival. Recent poems have appeared in Crossways, The Galway review, Honest Ulsterman, Poetry Village, and as a featured news piece in The Irish News. He is working towards his first collection.

Matthew Page is a trainee psychotherapist. Previously, he studied English literature at Lancaster University. He is a keen tennis fan and supporter of Leeds United FC. He was born in Northampton, UK, but has been happily transplanted to Lancaster, UK.

Ansuya Patel grew up in India and speaks Gujarati, but writes mostly in English. She lives in London and has taken courses in Creative Writing and Poetry at City Lit. Her poems The Widow Of Varanasi and I Remember have appeared in the annual anthology of Creative Writing. Her poem London’s Money Land has been selected for inclusion in the 2021 edition of Between The Lines. Her poem Brown Girl has been selected as a highly commended entry in the Black in White Poetry Competition 2021.

Colin Pink’s poems have appeared in a wide range of literary magazines in the UK and Ireland. He has published three collections: Acrobats of Sound, (Poetry Salzburg Press,

2016), The Ventriloquist Dummy’s Lament, (Against the Grain, 2019) and Typicity, (Vole, 2021).

Fiona Seoige is a Meath based artist whose prerequisite for life is do no harm, please let it be fun, you don’t know the half of it, and love is the answer to everything. Her work is land based mythos with plenty of experience of how wild and wonderful it all actually is. Sue Wallace-Shaddad has an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University/Poetry School London. Her pamphlet 'A City Waking Up' was published by Dempsey and Windle October 2020. Sue has poems published by London Grip, Artemis, Fenland Poetry Journal, Ink Sweat & Tears. She is Secretary of Suffolk Poetry Society. https://suewallaceshaddad.wordpress.com Vinny Glynn-Steed from Galway is widely published abroad and at home. His work has appeared in journals and online in Mexico, the United States, Wales and Northern Ireland. He has featured in publications such as Windows 25th edition, Parhelion and Cinnamon Press. Other publications include Boyne Berries, Crannóg, Headstuff, Ofi Press to name but a few. Vinny was the winner of the 2020 Allingham Poetry Competition and his debut chapbook Catching Air was published by Maytree Press in December 2020.

Lynda Tavakoli is a writer and poet from County Down. Her prose and poetry have been widely published and she has won a number of awards, including the Westival International Poetry Prize and the Listowel Originals Prize. Her debut poetry collection The Boiling Point for Jam has been recently published with Arlen House.

Anthony Wade, a Forward Prize nominee, has published in poetry magazines in England, Ireland (including Drawn To The Light), Scotland, and as far afield as India and the USA, both in print and online. Irish, he lives by the sea in East Cork and is an active member of Midleton Writers’ Group. Twitter @anthonywadepoet

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