The 29th edition of morphrog is now live at www.morphrog.com. Contributors are:
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, retired mathematician and current poetry editor of the online magazine London Grip. His latest collection is Identified Flying Objects (Shoestring, 2024).
Tom Barwell Poet, psychotherapist and coach Tom Barwell. Recently published in Does It Have Pockets and Poetica Review.
James Owens whose poems and translations appear widely in literary journals, including recent or upcoming publications in Channel, Arc, Dalhousie Review, Queen’s Quarterly, and Atlanta Review. He earned an MFA at the University of Alabama and lives in a small town in Ontario, Canada. His latest publication is Family Portrait with Scythe (Bottom Dog Press, 2020).
Gordon Scapens, widely published over many years in numerous magazines, journals, anthologies and competitions, most recently winning the Brian Nesbit Poetry Award.
Sanjeev Sethi has authored seven books of poetry. His latest is Wrappings in Bespoke (The Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK, August 2022). He edited Dreich Planet #1, an anthology for Hybriddreich, Scotland, in December 2022. He is the joint winner of the Full Fat Collection Competition-Deux, organized by Hedgehog Poetry Press, UK. He lives in Mumbai, India.
John Short lives near Liverpool again after a previous life in southern Europe. He reads at venues in Liverpool, Chester and beyond. His work has appeared in over 80 magazines and anthologies, and he was a Pushcart nominee in 2018. His latest poetry collection is In Search of a Subject (Cerasus, 2023).
J.S. Watts is a British poet and novelist who weaves the fantastical and the literary with other vibrant strands to create glowing, multi-faceted writing. Originally from London, she now lives in Cambridgeshire. Her three poetry collections, Cats and Other Myths, Years Ago You Coloured Me and Underword, are published by Lapwing Publications, as is her multi-award nominated SF poetry pamphlet, Songs of Steelyard Sue. Her novels are published in the US and UK by Vagabondage Press.
Submissions are invited for morphrog 30, which will be published in January.