Three Drops from a Cauldron: Samhain 2018

Paul Waring is a retired clinical psychologist who once designed menswear and sang in several Liverpool bands. A 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee, his poems have appeared in a range of print journals, anthologies and e-zines including Three Drops From A Cauldron, Bonnie’s Crew Anthology, Prole, Atrium, Algebra of Owls, Amaryllis, Riggwelter, Clear Poetry, High Window, Ofi Press, Marble Poetry and others. https://waringwords.wordpress.com Sue Spiers’s poems have been included in previous Samhain and Beltane issues with Three Drops from a Cauldron, and with Picaroon Poetry in January 2019. Thank you, Kate. Other magazines include Acumen, Dream Catcher, Orbis, South and Under The Radar. Sue’s poems have been included in Paper Swans Press anthologies Best of British, and coming soon, Pocket Poetry series for Cricket. Sue is SIG Sec for British Mensa poetry and treasurer with the Winchester Poetry Festival and can be followed on Twitter @spiropoetry.

Jacqui Rowe has had four pamphlets published, and a full collection, Blink, from V Press. She has read her own commissioned poems on Radio 4's Poetry Please. Co-editor of the award-winning press Flarestack Poets, she is also a tutor for the Poetry School. In 2013-2014 she was Writer in Residence at Birmingham's Barber Institute of Fine Arts, where she established and continues to deliver the creative writing programme.

Sam Grudgings is a poet perpetually on the edge of collapse. He yells stories about recovery, loss, 50 ft monsters, cities made of teeth & haunted people cos it's cheaper than therapy and less physically taxing than porno. He has done festivals, played punk shows, & has supported Dizraeli, Button Poetry's Sabrina Benaim & Rudy Francisco as well as many others. He is always talking about mental health at the most inopportune moments. Sam can be found at most poetry nights in Bristol & co-produces Cult spoken-word night Milk Poetry.

Sarah L Dixon is based in Linthwaite and tours as The Quiet Compere. She has been most recently published in Confluence and Marble. Her first book, ‘The sky is cracked’, was released by Half Moon Press in November 2017 and her book ‘Adding wax patterns to Wednesday’ is due out with Three Drops Press in late 2018. Sarah’s inspiration comes from being close to water and adventures with her son, Frank (8).

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