Poetry Magazines - The best collection of poetry magazines online - Simon Armitage

Liz Atkin is an ex-visual artist now living in Newcastle upon Tyne. Her first collection Glee with a Blue Background is available from Diamond Twig Press.

Suzanne Batty has appeared in major poetry magazines. The Poetry Business published her pamphlet Shrink in 1977, and in 1999 North West Arts gave her a grant to complete her first collection Barking Thing.

Paul Burns came to poetry because he couldn’t keep away. Now it won’t leave him alone. Still cycles, still plays guitar.

Ken Champion, East End lad made bad, lives in Essex, lectures in sociology, writes in trains, shoeshops, garages.

Bruno D’Arcy is a cartoonist, working on a book 365 Chocolates a Year that weaves confectionery, philosophy and love into a vision of hyperglycaemic Eden.

Geraldine Green, 20 years a secretary, has run a Carlisle B&B for art students and has been paid in flour & lentils to work in a Buddhist wholefood shop, but is now focused on a poetry career.

Joel Lane lives in Birmingham, had a collection The Edge of the Screen from Arc in 1999, and sees writing as an act of control, containment & interpretation, inseparable from other practical & social acts in the course of everyday life.

Susan McCormick was committed to a Kent boarding school where she served 7 years without conviction.

Brendan McMahon, married with 2 sons, is a psychotherapist & university teacher in Derbyshire, published in lots of good magazines and with collections from University of Salzburg Press and Shoestring.

Chloë Meakin was born in Essex in 1977, is the author of 3 plays, sells tents & is trying to land an aeroplane gracefully but it seems destined to crash. Which is a poem in my book.

I’d have thought everyone knows Geoff Stevens has edited Purple Patch poetry magazine for a really long time and has been in pretty well all the others.

Maggie Sullivan has studied poetry at undergraduate and postgraduate level and is a contemporary poetry groupie.

Rodney Wood, born in Aldershot, married, works in Guildford, has had 100+ poems published and is still learning.

Howard Wright lectures in art history at the University of Ulster at Belfast, and writes poetry reviews. 1997 pamphlet collection Usquebaugh from Redbeck.