Poems 1

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 Simon Barraclough is a poet and writer who has published and edited several volumes and pamphlets, most recently Sunspots in 2015 (Penned in the Margins). He devises and performs in multimedia projects involving filmmakers and musicians (Psycho Poetica in 2010, The Debris Field in 2010, Sunspots in 2015, Vertiginous in 2018). Larry Butler grew up in northern California, and has lived in Glasgow since 1981, where he teaches Tai-Chi, movement and leads improvisation workshops. He co-founded the Poetry Healing Project out of which he founded and developed Survivors’ Poetry Scotland and Lapidus. Aisha Farr is an artist and writer who lives and works in London. Patrizia Longhitano was born in Brazil and lived most of her life in Italy until 2005 when she decided to move to the UK. Since then, she has been living in London working as a nanny. Her work is included in Un Nuevo Sol: British LatinX Writers, ed. Nathalie Teitler and Nii Ayikwei Parkes (Flipped Eye).Robin Fulton Macpherson’s Northern Habitat: Collected Poems 1960-2010is published by Marick Press. Some of the poems featured here appear in his new collection Arrivals of Light (Shearsman).  Peter McCarey is the author of many poetry collections, including Collected Contraptions (Carcanet). His collection of essays on poetry, Find an Angel and Pick a Fight is published by Molecular Press, as is Petrushka, a hybrid novel which, written before Covid19, is a shocking prophecy of a pandemic. He lives in Geneva.  April Yee writes about colonialism, climate change, and other effects of power. In 2020 her work was commended or shortlisted by Ambit, Live Canon, and the Bridport Prize. She reported in more than a dozen countries before moving to London, where she serves on the Refugee Journalism Project at UAL and tweets @aprilyee.