Issue Forty-One: Contributors

Bob Beagrie (PhD) is a poet, writer and performer and literary activist who has also written short stories and plays. He lives in Middlesbrough and has published fifteen collections of poetry, most recently: The Hand of Glory: a biography’ (Yaffle 2025), Romanceros (Drunk Muse Press 2024), Eftwyrd (Smokestack Books 2023), The Last Almanac (Yaffle Press 2023). When We Wake We Think We’re Whalers from Eden (Stairwell Books 2021).

Irish poet and journalist, Oisín Breen is published in 135 journals in 24 countries, including Agenda, Acumen, Books Ireland, Quadrant, Southword, North Dakota Quarterly and The Tahoma Literary Review. Breen has two collections, Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, a Scotsman poetry book-of-the-year, 2023 (Downingfield), and his well received debut, Flowers, All Sorts, in Blossom, Figs, Berries, and Fruits Forgotten (Dreich, 2020). Breen’s third collection, The Kergyma, is due out soon (Salmon Poetry).

SJ Butler is a published author and writer from Ireland. Previous works are: Between The Lines 2020, Deadly Lesson 2021 and Last Orders 2024 (Headline Publishing). His style is quirky, funny, and self-deprecating. The stories are carefully crafted, and flow naturally to a very human conclusion. He doesn’t do dark – only bright feel-good narratives with a humorous twist.

David Capps is a philosophy professor and writer based in CT. His latest chapbook, Wheatfield with Reaper, is available from Akinoga Press.

Craig Constantine has been a day laborer, bread baker, furniture mover, factory worker, and TV producer.  Now a poet, his hardest, worst-paid, best job.  His poems are drifting like his younger self, now in the UK, now in the US, now in Australia.  He has just been named Editor-at-Large for Poetries In English.

Irene Cunningham, a Glaswegian living in Brighton, has been anthologised, magazined & collected, nominated for the Pushcart Prize, won Autumn Voices memoir competition, and decades ago, won a week at Arvon with Roger McGough. Books: SANDMEN: A Space Odyssey, Hedgehog Press. No Country for Old Woman Dreich Press. Talking to Walls, Up@Ground Level, Amazon. She is building collections to clear space in her life and concentrate on neglected novel-writing. At the moment drowning in poems, kidnapped, mobbed.

William Doreski lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He has taught at several colleges and universities. His most recent book of poetry is Cloud Mountain (2024). He has published three critical studies, including Robert Lowell’s Shifting Colors. His essays, poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in various journals.

Julie Egdell is a poet from Whitley Bay whose debut collection Alice in Winterland (Smokestack) was developed into an Arts Council-funded multimedia tour across the UK, Finland and Russia. Her work appears in the Bloodaxe anthology Hallelujah for 50ft Women and she has performed widely across the UK and Europe.

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Midnight Mind, Trampoline and Flights. Latest books, “Bittersweet”, “Subject Matters” and “Between Two Fires” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in Levitate, White Wall Review and Willow Review.

Dr. William S. Kilgore is a sociology professor residing in Houston, Texas. After nearly 30 years as an academic, William began writing poetry in 2024 while at home recovering from a kidney transplant, at the age of 56. This opened a door to a new way of contemplating things that was entirely new to him. Initially writing primarily for himself, some friends and family have encouraged him to seek publication. William began doing this in earnest in 2026. He has poems scheduled for the Spring issues of Westward Quarterly and foreshadow.

Phil Kingston works in theatre and community arts in Dublin. His poetry has appeared in Dogs Singing (Salmon), The Stony Thursday Book (Limerick Council Arts Office) Howl (New Irish Writing) the online anthology Sparks of the Everyday (ed. Anthony Anaxagorou) and Poetry Ireland Review 144. He was one of Poetry Ireland’s Introductions 2022.

Rodolfo G Ledesma teaches economics at Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines. Prior to that, he taught for several years in the U.S. and in Seoul, South Korea, where he won a Best Teacher award in 2010. He has poems published or forthcoming in Compass Rose, The Raven Review, Glint, Behemoth Biennial, The Vagabond’s Verse, and Prudence Dispatch. He is also the author and illustrator of Volume 1 & 2 of the cartoon book “A Dog’s Guide to Making It in America.”

Elizabeth McSkeane is a Scottish/Irish writer based in Dublin. She has four collections of poetry, two novels and a short story collection. Her poetry and prose has won several awards, including the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award for poetry and the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair Competition. Her poems and stories have been published in Ambit, Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, The Irish Pages, The Shop, The Stinging Fly, Orbis, Books Ireland and others. She is the founder and Director of Turas Press.

Kate Young’s poetry has been published in journals including Fly on the Wall, Alchemy Spoon and Poetry Scotland. It can also be heard on Words for the Wild and the Podcast Poetry Worth Hearing. The poem Fear was placed 2nd in The Canterbury Poet of the Year Competition, 2022. Her pamphlets A Spark in the Darkness and Beyond the School Gate have been published by Hedgehog Press and Laying Down Bones will be published by them later this year. Find her on X @Kateyoung12poet or her website kateyoungpoet.co.uk