The North – 71

Isobel Dixon • David Constantine • David Tait • James Bradley • Niamh Twomey • Jackie Wills • Penelope Shuttle • Roy Marshall • Brendan Cleary • Philip Rush • Martin Hayden • Jenny McRobert • Martyn Crucefix • Ramona Herdman • Howard Wright • Lauren Camp • John Lynch • June Crebbin • Elizabeth Chadwick • Pauline Plummer • Jacci Bulman • John Goodby • Orlagh O’Farrell • Maitreyabandhu • Tim Dooley • Sue Riley • Julie Lumsden • Lorraine Mc Ardle • Ian Pople • Maggie Reed • Nia Broomhall • Jean Stevens • Fokkina McDonnell • Barbara Marsh • Terry Quinn • Paul Mills • David Underdown • Meg Cox • Mike Di Placido • John Lancaster • Stephen Payne • Pam Thompson • Robert Etty • Robert Hamberger • Vasiliki Albedo • Christy Ku • Liz Byrne • Charlotte Wetton • Rod Whitworth • Mary Noonan • Siún Carden • Michael Henry • Lydia Harris • Jenny King • Jon Miller • Ben Maguire • Jim McElroy • Amy Dugmore • Eilis Stanley • Rosie Hadden • Jeanette Burton • Lydia Macpherson • Graham Mort • Rebecca Althaus • Cliff Yates • Linda Ford • Angela Neenan • Marion New • Matthew Paul • Michael Laskey • Jayant Kashyap • Cia Mangat • Zelda Cahill-Patten • Charlie Jolley • Caroline Bracken • Jen Feroze • Dale Booton • Kate Rutter • James Appleby • Ger Duffy • Derval Tubridy • Nigel Pantling • Dean Parkin

Focus Feature: Michael Laskey at Eighty

Features 

Poets I Go Back To: Jane Draycott and Kate Potts • Featured Title: From Secrets Corner, Dean Parkin, The Garlic Press • Blind Criticism: Anna Hiller, Rishi Dastidar and Ed Reiss on ‘Bomber’ • New Poets Prize 2024 Winners and Runners Up • International Book & Pamphlet Competition 2024 Winners, Runners Up and Commended • Nigel Pantling’s A Foreign Country

Reviews 

Sarah-Clare Conlon on Lisa Robertson, Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Janette Ayachi • Lydia Unsworth on Martina Evans, Katy Evans-Bush, Tim Tim Cheng • Lenni Sanders on Tom Jenks, Harry Man, Kandace Siobhan • Ian Pople on Elisa Gonzalez, Victoria Chang, Carlie Hoffman • Edmund Prestwich on Sasha Dugdale, Imtiaz Dharker, Michelene Wandor • Belinda Cooke on Marie Howe, Grace Wilentz • Sally Baker on Amanda Dalton, Rebecca Watts, Victoria Gatehouse • Kayleigh Jayshree on Amelia Loulli, Lucy Mercer, Emily Berry

Published Summer 2025. 

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