Issue Forty: Contributors

Geoffrey Aitken writes on Adelaide’s unceded Kaurna land, an awarded minimalist poet leaning into his ‘lived experience’ for successes [AUS], [UK, US, HR, CAN, FR & CN]. Published recently, Libre Lit, soon, Social Alternatives, Verge Anthology and The Closed Eye Open. Nominated Best of the Net 2022.

Ben Banyard lives in Portishead, on the North Somerset coast. His three collections to date are Communing (Indigo Dreams, 2016), We Are All Lucky (Indigo Dreams, 2018) and Hi-Viz (Yaffle Press, 2021). Ben edits Black Nore Review. His website can be found here. 

Derek Coyle’s Reading John Ashbery in Costa Coffee Carlow (2019) was shortlisted for the Shine Strong 2020 award for best first collection. Sipping Martinis under Mount Leinster (2024) is published in a dual language edition in Tranas, Sweden. His poems have appeared in The Irish Times, Irish Pages, The Stinging Fly, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Texas Literary Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Orbis, Skylight 47, Assaracus, The High Window and The Stony Thursday Book. He reviews books regularly, and he has written literary essays on the poetry of Seamus Heaney, John Montague, James Schuyler and Paula Meehan. He lectures in Carlow College/St Patrick’s, Ireland. 

Craig Dobson has had poetry and short fiction published in magazines in Europe, the US and Asia. He’s working towards his first poetry collection. 

Elise Carney Frazier is an aspiring poet from Galway, Ireland. Her work has appeared in Salzburg Poetry Review and Icarus. 

Living in Dublin, Joseph Hoban’s work has been previously published in Poetry Ireland, The Honest Ulsterman, The Stinging Fly, Icarus, The Shop, Ropes, The Edgeworth Papers, and elsewhere, as well as broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1. He works at RTÉ, Ireland’s national public service media. 

Julie Hogg is a poet from the North Yorkshire coast with poems recently appearing in Ghost Furniture Catalogue, Magma and Poetry Scotland. Featured in anthologies by Culture Matters and Seren, A Raven on a Writing Desk is available from Dunlin Press. 

Henry Kranz, born in Chicago the year Babe Ruth died, has been writing since encountering New Directions paperbacks in high school. His poems have been published in Rhino, Salamander, Live Writers, Xavier Review, Moraine II, and Cache Review. 

Buoye Oluwatosin (Toye) is a Nigerian poet, novelist, song-writer, gospel artist and educationist. She has written several poems and had her work published. ‘Stampede’ published by Penned in Rage Literary Journal and ‘Bailey of A Castle’ published by Pride Magazine Nigeria. Oluwatosin’s poetry is characterized by its exploration of the complexities of human existence; life struggles, ups and downs of life and the world’s nature.  She’s currently publishing one of her novels, Eve’s Mentality, on Wattpad. 

Martin Potter is a British-Colombian poet and academic, based in Edinburgh, and his poems have appeared in Acumen, The French Literary Review, Eborakon, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Poetry Village, and other journals as well as in anthologies by Black Bough and Gothic Keats Press. His pamphlet In the Particular was published in 2017. His website can be found here. 

Nida Sajid is a postdisciplinary educator, organiser and writer. She holds an MA in Cultural Studies from Birkbeck, University of London, specialising in experimental fiction. Her debut novelette COOP is forthcoming with Hajar Press in December 2025. 

Nevin Schreiner lives in Los Angeles where he’s been a screenwriter, a curator and a novelist. 

John Short has appeared in over eighty magazines and has published four collections of poetry and a book of travel stories. His most recent poetry collection is: In Search of a Subject (Cerasus 2023). He has reviewed for Happenstance Press and The High Window. He’s finalising a new collection and divides his time between Liverpool and Sabadell in Catalonia. 

Marc Swan lives in coastal Maine. Poems recently published or forthcoming in Gargoyle, Chiron Review, Sheila-na-gig, and Crannóg, among others. His fifth collection, all it would take, was published in 2020 by tall-lighthouse (UK). 

Ilias Tsagas is a London-based Greek poet, writing in English as a second language. His work has appeared in journals like: Apogee, AMBIT, streetcake, Briefly Write, Under the Radar, Poetry Wales, SAND, Tokyo Poetry, Plumwood Mountain and elsewhere. Ilias was a Poet-in-Residence at the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2024. Instagram: @ilias.tsagas 

mk zariel {it/its + masc terms} is a transmasculine neuroqueer poet, theater artist, movement journalist, and BashBack aligned anarchist. it is fueled by folk-punk, Emma Goldman, and existential dread. the author of VOIDGAZING (2026, Whittle Micropress) and BOY APPARITION (2025, Vinegar Press), it can be found online at here, creating conflictually queer-anarchic spaces, writing columns for Asymptote and the Anarchist Review of Books, and being mildly feral in the great lakes region.