Issue Forty-Two: 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.

Mohamad Zaal Alsalloum is a Syrian poet, writer, journalist, researcher, and translator living in France. He studied French literature and audiovisual translation and is the author of numerous poetry collections, with works also published in French.

Lisa Borkovich is a writer from Hamilton, Ontario. Her poetry appears in various journals and ezines, such as The New Quarterly, Hamilton Arts and Letters Magazine, IWA/45 Magazine Literary Journal, Asylum Magazine, Canadian Literature (forthcoming), Amethyst Review, Soul Forte, and most recently, drift/line press, Scrawl Place and Azarão Lit Journal.

Craig Constantine has been a day laborer, bread baker, furniture mover, 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.

Beth Corcoran holds an MA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin, Ireland. A recipient of an Irish Arts Council Agility Award, she is developing her poetic practice under the mentorship of Simon Costello. Her articles have appeared in the Irish Times. Her writing circles around themes of family, advocacy, disability, and her observations of the ordinary.

Craig Cox is a poet and short story writer from Dublin, Ireland. His work has been published in SWERVE Magazine, Eascair, Unapologetic, Drawn To The Light Press, Quare Eire and Eat The Storms.

David Edelman’s poems have appeared in Corpus Callosum, Chiron Review, Poetry Ireland Review, Mudlark, Skylight 47, The Bangor Literary Journal, Freshwater, and many other publications. Brooding Heron Press published his chapbook, After the Translation. He resides, most of the time, in Bellingham, Washington.

James Gilbert is a freelance ecologist and Chartered Environmentalist. His childhood years were spent in Swindon, Wiltshire, later living and studying in London. Presently James resides in the Peterborough area; he is often out walking in nature, sometimes writing about his observations and wildlife encounters.

Malachy Harris (they/them) lives in Belfast but is originally from Edinburgh. In 2025, they were selected for the Shared Island Funded PEN na hÉireann/John Hewitt Society ‘Freedom to Write’ Award, and were awarded an MA in Poetry from Queen’s University Belfast. Their work has been published by Querencia Press, Rough Diamond, and the Seamus Heaney Centre, amongst others.

John Harrison resides in the town of Hebden Bridge, England. He studied cultural anthropology to PhD level at Oxford University. New to writing, he has had work accepted in the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, 256 Stories and Beyond Words Magazine. He was also shortlisted in the Phil Lit open poetry competition.

Gavin Liu is an avid creative writer, especially enjoying poetry. He loves to read, his favourite books being the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In addition, he is a painter, musician, traveler, book-reviewer, and gamer. He finds solace in the arts and in nature, where he feels at peace and is able to ‘breathe’. He finds that he voices himself best when writing slowly, through taking time to ponder and discover what his words want to be. Creative writing is how he expresses what otherwise cannot be spoken.

Amy O’Brien is a graduate of the Poetry MA at Queen’s University Belfast. She is founding editor at EASCAIR, a Belfast-based magazine publishing work in English and Irish. Her own work can be found in Blackbird, Butch-Femme Press and With a Fada.

John Repp is a writer, collagist, and folk photographer living in Erie, Pennsylvania. His most recent book is Never Far from the Egg Harbor Ice House, published in 2025 by Sheila-Na-Gig Editions.

Bríd Ryan lives in Kildare, Ireland, with her husband and two kids. She has a degree in Arts from NUI Galway, and recently completed the Creative Writing (Poetry) programme at Carlow College, St. Patrick’s. She is now studying Advanced Art at Abbeyleix LOETB, having completed Art, Craft and Design in May.

Nida Sajid is a writer based in London. Her first book, COOP: A Novelette, was published by Hajar Press in 2025. She was awarded the 2026-7 Jerwood Arvon Writers Residency for poetry.