By Merryn Williams So many people are feeling miserable because John Lucas, a constant friend and with undiminished mental powers, is sudden...

By Merryn Williams  I first met Ruth Bidgood (1922-2022) when I was a struggling new poet and she was one of the most eminent Welsh poets i...

Michael Bartholomew-Biggs is a retired mathematician living in London. He is the current poetry editor of the online magazine London Grip ...

Neil Fulwood was born in Nottingham, where he still lives and works as a bus driver. He has published three previous collections with Shoes...

Rennie Parker is a Shoestring Press poet who lives in the bottom left-hand corner of Lincolnshire. Unfortunately she does not have a writer...

  Merryn Williams lives in Oxford, and After Hastings  (Shoestring Press, 2023) is her sixth volume of poetry. She worked hard for Labour i...

  Robert Selby, photograph by Paul Ligas Robert Selby edits the literary journal Wild Court and reviews for various publications. His debut...

About Poems for the Year 2020 Thousands upon thousands of poems were written in the unforgettable year 2020, when corona virus changed the w...

  Alan Baker was born and raised in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and has lived in Nottingham since 1985, where he has been editor of the poetry publ...

Neil Fulwood was born in Nottingham in 1972, where he still lives and works as a bus driver. He has published a media studies book The ...

Martin Stannard  is a poet and critic, and lives in Nottingham. He was the founding editor of joe soap’s canoe (1978-1993), a poetry ...