Jayant Kashyap’s Notes on Burials asks the reader to consider different types of burials and retrievals, including personal and etymological burials, in cool, reflective poems. – Holly Hopkins

Jayant Kashyap has published two previous pamphlets, Unaccomplished Cities (Ghost City Press, 2020) and Survival (Clare Songbirds, 2019), and a zine, Water (Skear Zines, 2021). He won the Young Poets International Competition (judged by Phoebe Stuckes) at the Wells Festival of Literature in 2021, and his poem ‘A Positively Violent Poem in Five Parts’ was a winner of the Poems to Solve the Climate Crisis challenge on Young Poets Network the same year and was later presented at COP26, the United Nations Climate Conference 2021. In 2021, he was also shortlisted for the New Poets Prize, and again in 2022. In 2022, one of his poems was nominated for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Anthology, and another in 2023. His work has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and appears in POETRY, Magma, Arc, Acumen and Poetry Wales.

Cia Mangat’s Lobe invites the reader into the lives of the speaker and their mother through carefully observed, thoughtful poems that resonate and shine.  – Holly Hopkins

Cia Mangat is a poet from London. She founded and edited Zindabad, a zine for people in diasporas worldwide. Cia is an alumnus of Barbican Young Poets, Roundhouse Poetry Collective and the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award. Her work has appeared in gal-dem, propel, and bath magg; Everything is going to be all right (2021, Orion); and Cerys Matthews’ album We Come From The Sun (Decca Records). Cia has read her poems at the Southbank Centre and on BBC radio, and facilitates writing and zine-making workshops. 

Zelda Cahill-Patten’s Surgeon Songs show verve and playfulness even as the speaker is confronted with illness and loss, creating a sense of courage and generosity to the reader. – Holly Hopkins

Zelda Cahill-Patten lives and works in London. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Magma, Sheila-Na-Gig and Ink Sweat & Tears. She has been awarded the Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize (University of Oxford, for poetry in strict rhyming metre) and the Gertrude Hartley Poetry Prize (Balliol College). She studied English Literature at university, and wrote her undergraduate thesis on the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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Charlie Jolley’s The Dreamers demonstrates a talent for dramatic monologues which directs the reader to consider different moments in history and how they relate politically and emotionally. – Holly Hopkins

Charlie Jolley is a young poet and fiction writer. She is a top 15 winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award (2023). In 2023 she was also the winner of the Waltham Forest Young Poets Prize, the Hexham Young People’s Poetry Competition, and the Poem:99 Poetry Competition, as well as placing second in the East Riding Festival of Words, and the Charles Causley Young Poets Prize. She has been published by The Poetry Society, Zoetic Press, and in Hive anthologies Dear Life and After Hours. She is an alumnus of Sheffield Young Writers and a member of Hive Poetry Collective. 

Holly Hopkins is a poet and assistant editor at The Poetry Business. Holly’s first collection The English Summer (Penned in the Margins) ‘takes on the stories England tells about itself’. It was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Seamus Heaney Prize and won a Laurel Prize. It was awarded the Poetry Book Society’s Special Commendation and was named one of The Guardian‘s ‘Best Poetry Books of 2022’. Work-in-progress, which will form Holly’s second collection, was awarded the Northern Writers Award for Poetry in 2023.