Contributors to morphrog33

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Anna Bowles is an editor and activist who divides her time between London and east Ukraine. She began writing poetry in response to Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. To date her work has been published in Magma, Orbis, Poetry Salzburg and the Four-Faced Liar, amongst others, as well as placing in a number of UK competitions. Her pamphlet ‘Landscape With Mines’ was published by Mica Press in December 2025.

Gordon Scapens has been widely published in various countries over many years in numerous magazines,  journals, anthologies, newspapers and competitions, most recently first prize in the Brian Nisbet poetry award. His latest book is ‘History Doesn’t Die’.

Nisha Bhakoo is currently a Research Associate in Literary Studies at the University of Sussex. She has published two poetry pamphlets and three collections. She edited the Contemporary Gothic Verse Anthology published by The Emma Press in 2019. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Dundee, and has taught at universities in the UK and Germany as well as at The Poetry School.

Rob Yates is a British writer hailing from Essex. He is currently based in Charlottesville, where he is completing his MFA at the University of Virginia. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has had work appear via Agenda, Bodega, DMQ Review, Envoi, Flash Frog, SmokeLong Quarterly, and other literary magazines. Some of his writing can be found through www.rob-yates.co.uk.

Lindy Usher (L.E. Usher) was born in Australia. Her previous novels are Miss, The Sudden Spoon, and Then Came October, and pamphlet Desolate Beauty (The Frogmore Press, 2018). She had three strokes (2008-09) and she has aphasia. She lives in Kent and France.

DJ Tyrer is the person behind Atlantean Publishing, editor of View From Atlantis and the 5-7-5 Haiku Journal webzines, and has been published in issues of Genre: Urban Arts, Haiku Journal, Lothlorien Journal, Poetry Quarterly, and Tigershark, and online at A New Ulster, Enchanted Conversation, Library Love Letter, Morphrog, Plato’s Caves and Poetry Pacific. The e-chapbook One Vision is available from Tigershark Publishing’s website. 

DJ Tyrer’s website is at https://djtyrer.blogspot.co.uk/
DJ Tyrer’s Facebook page is at https://www.facebook.com/DJTyrerwriter/
The Atlantean Publishing website is at https://atlanteanpublishing.wordpress.com/

Pauline Rowe has  a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Liverpool and recent pamphlets with Maytree Press. She has also had work published by Driftwood Publications, Lapwing Publications, Headland Publications and Lark Lane Poetry Books: poems in North West Poets, Live Canon, Yaffle Press & Templar Poetry anthologies, The Interpreter’s House, Orbis, Morphrog, The Frogmore Papers, Smoke, The Rialto, Dreich, Smith’s Knoll, Iota and others.  

Gerald Seniuk is retired, a Canadian, and resides in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

William Kilgore is a sociology professor residing in Houston. After 30 years as an academic, William began writing poetry in 2024 after a kidney transplant. This opened a door to a new way of contemplating things. Initially writing for himself, friends and family have encouraged him to seek publication.

Megan Wildhood is a cyclist, saxophonist, gym enthusiast, cat lover and writer whose work has appeared in her poetry chapbook Long Division (Finishing Line Press, 2017), her full-length poetry collection Bowed As If Laden With Snow (Cornerstone Press, May 2023) as well as Mad in America, The Sun and elsewhere. You can learn more about her at meganwildhood.com.

Ian C Smith’s work has been published in BBC Radio 4 Sounds, Cable Street, Griffith Review, North of Oxford, Rundelania, The Spadina Literary Review, Stand, & Westerly.  His seventh book is wonder sadness madness joy, Ginninderra (Port Adelaide).  He writes in the Gippsland Lakes area of Victoria, and on Flinders Island.

Mark Mansfield is the author of four, full-length collections of poetry, most recently Tales from the Wingèd Chariot Inn (Chester River Press, 2024). His poems have appeared in Abridged, Anthropocene, Dreich, Fire, The High Window, London Grip, Magma, Obsessed with Pipework, Orbis, Poetry Salzburg Review, Sarasvati, Skylight 47, Stand, StepAway, and elsewhere.  He has been a Pushcart Prize nominee.  He holds an M.A. in Writing from Johns Hopkins and is a retired musician. Currently, he lives in upstate New York.

Jeff Skinner‘s poems are widely published in the UK, most recently in The Passionfruit Review, Atrium, The Aftershock Review; forthcoming in Stand, and in Ink, Sweat & Tears. His pamphlet, Us, was shortlisted for the Live Canon pamphlet prize. In July 2023 he was diagnosed with a neuro-degenerative condition. He listens to a lot of music, watches football, reads, writes.

Nolo Segundo, pen name of a retired teacher [America, Japan, Taiwan, Cambodia], became a published poet in his 8^th decade in over 270 literary journals in 22 countries, was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, thrice for Best of the Net, and has 3 collections published in trade softcover: THE ENORMITY OF EXISTENCE, OF ETHER AND EARTH, and SOUL SONGS. 

Emily Hay is a lifetime south Londoner, fascinated by the changing city, writing poetry, short stories and longer. Growing up in the 1970s, she was immersed in the previous generation’s narratives of world war and consumed far too many Biggles, Victor comic strip and war stories. Her poetry and prose has been published by Lancaster Litfest; by the Coffee House poetry magazine; by the Riggwelter Press; by Aôthen Magazine; by the Lavender Review; by Exeter Mind’s Comic Verse Anthology; by City Lit Between the Lines; and as winner of Greenwich River of Words.

Michael Igoe is a city boy, neurodiverse, Chicago, now New England. Numerous works appear in journals and anthologies (available at amazon.com, lulu.com, barnesandnoble.com) National Library of Poetry (Owing Mills MD) Editor’s Choice for Excellence 1997. Best of the Net nomination 2023.

Denise Bundred is writing a narrative collection of poetry about the final years of Vincent van Gogh. Her poems have appeared in magazines including Envoi, Under the Radar, Magma, The Dark Horse, Prole, London Grip, and Ink Sweat and Tears. She has poems in various anthologies including the Hippocrates Prize Anthologies and Reading Poets Anthology (Two Rivers Press). She has an MA in Creative Writing and Litany of a Cardiologist, was published by Against the Grain Press in 2020.

Craig Constantine has been a day laborer, bread baker,  furniture mover, and TV producer.  Now a poet, his hardest, worst-paid, best job.  Five of his poems currently appear in magazines in the US, UK, and Australia.

Mark Wyatt now lives in the UK after teaching in South and South-East Asia and the Middle East: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8647-8280.  His pattern poetry has appeared since 2024 in various magazines, including Antifa Lit Journal, Artemis Journal, Ballast, Borderless, Clockwise Cat, Cosmic Daffodil, Dust Poetry, Exterminating Angel, Full Bleed, Greyhound Journal, Hyperbolic Review, Ink Sweat and Tears, Libre, MacQueen’s Quinterly, Moss Puppy Magazine, Neologism Poetry Journal, Osmosis, The Paper, The Plentitudes, Radon Journal, Re-Mediate, Shift, Sontag Mag, Streetcake Magazine, Talking About Strawberries All Of The Time, Tap Into Poetry, Tupelo Quarterly, and Typo. Two of his poems have recently been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Charlotte Dormandy is about to submit her final portfolio for the MA in Writing Poetry at the Poetry School in London.  She has recently had poems long-listed in the National Poetry Competition, highly commended in the Erbacce Competition and short-listed in the Anthology Competition. 

Craig Dobson has had poetry and short fiction published in magazines in the UK, Europe, USA, Canada and Asia. He’s currently working towards his first collection of each.

Mark Rutter’s poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies, most recently Aswirl, Mercurius, Petrichor Journal, and The PoPoGrou Anthology.  His most recent collections/pamphlets are: simple cells (inkCONCRETE) and Sky-Burial (Coast to Coast to Coast).  He is also an artist and printer.  Mark grew up in the Midlands and North of England, but lived in a trailer in the Maine woods during the 1990s, and still returns there each summer.

Tom Barwell is a poet, psychotherapist and proud footstool for two Havanese dogs.

Stephanie Suh is a poetess based in Los Angeles, California. Her poems have appeared in Anomaly Poetry, The Raven Review, Belladonna’s Garden, EgoPHobia (Romania), Poems Tales & Other English Words (UK), and Poet in Verse Journal (UK).

Alan J. Kellner’s poetic sensibility blends his training in philosophy and his experience as a stay-at-home dad, writing in accessible language with creative internal rhymes resting on a rhythmic foundation. 

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