morphrog22 contributors include M.E. Muir, Rodney Wood, Aidan Casey, Robert Ronnow, DJ Tyrer, Ian Heffernan, Martin Rieser, Mark Totterdell, Andy Conner

Robert Ronnow’s recent poetry collections include New & Selected Poems: 1975-2005 (Barnwood Press, 2007) and Communicating the Bird (Broken Publications, 2012). We include his poem Good at Marketing.

Martin Rieser has been widely published. We include five of his poems with a painting theme, inspired by works by Lucian Freud, Suzanne Valadon, Gustav Klimt, Henri Rousseau and Rene Magritte.

Mark Totterdell’s published collections are This Patter of Traces and Mapping. We have included two of his poems in morphrog22.

Rodney Wood has contributed five portraits of people featured in the Mondo Cane Visitor’s Guide 2019, a contemporary exhibition of humanity. The 1962 Mondo Cane documentary film featured portraits of humankind at its most perverse.

DJ Tyrer is the person behind Atlantean Publishing. For morphrog22 he has submitted poems including Clutter and Betrayed.

We have selected five poems by Ian Heffernan for morphrog22. His poetry has been published recently in the High Window, Ink, Sweat & Tears, Cha, Antiphon, South Bank Poetry, London Grip, Under the Radar, FourXFour, the Moth, Acumen and elsewhere.

Andy Conner is based in Birmingham and has a long track record of performing his work nationally and internationally. We include three recent poems in morphrog22.

Aidan Casey’s poems have appeared in Crossways, Lighten Up Online, the Culture Matters anthology, Pangolin Review and Page and Spine. We inlcude his poem Pieta in morphrog22.

M.E. Muir has contributed three poems for the latest issue of morphrog : Dive, Dogfish and First Foot.

Latest photo gallery by Martin Kay. martin has supplied the cover page photo, and also the images accompanying individual poetry submissions.