Muiz Ọpẹ́yẹmí Àjàyí (Frontier XVIII) is a Lagos-born Nigerian poet of Yoruba descent. His writings explore identity, language and place. He currently studies Law at the University of Ibadan. He’s an editor at The Nigeria Review, poetry reader for The Adroit Journal, a 2021 ARTmosterrific writer-in-residence and a 2023 Poetry Translation Centre UNDERTOW cohort. Winner […]
Fathima Zahra is an Indian poet based in Essex. She is a Barbican Young Poet and a Roundhouse Poetry Collective alum. Her poems have won the Bridport Prize, Asia House Slam, Wells Fest Young Poets Prize 2019. She has been featured across BBC World News, The New Indian Express and Young Poets Network. Her work […]
Maggie Wang was raised in the United States and now studies at the University of Oxford. Her writing has appeared or will appear in Poetry Wales, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Bedtime Stories for the End of the World, and elsewhere. She is a 2021 Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critic and has edited for Singapore Unbound, the […]
Phoebe Wagner is a poet, theatre-maker and facilitator. She joins the Polylingual Poets scheme to work on writing in her first language (English) and combining it with her mother and abuela’s tongue (Spanish). Her debut pamphlet The Body You’re In was published with Bad Betty Press, 2019. She is a Roundhouse Poetry Collective alum and […]
Charlotte Shevchenko Knight is a British-Ukrainian poet, studying a Masters at Goldsmiths College. She is a New Poets Prize winner (2021) and has been commended in the National Poetry Competition (2019). Her work has previously been featured in Magma, SPAM and Perverse, amongst others. Her pamphlet Ways of Healing was published by The Poetry Business […]
Lydia Hounat is a British-Algerian writer and photographer. She was a Poet-in-Residence at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Special Collections Archives. Her work has appeared in HOBART, MAI Journal: Feminism & Visual Culture, and The Babel Tower Notice Board. She co-edits interdisciplinary art zine, SOBER. and is currently curating the French and Amazigh collections at Manchester Poetry […]
Liv Goldreich (she/her) is a 2020 commended Foyle Young Poet and Adroit Journal Mentorship Programme alumna, she also won the Words of Unity poetry competition. Liv is a lover of languages. Besides English, she’s particularly interested in Hebrew, German and classical languages, and the etymological weight of words. She loves words that do not exist […]
Nasim Rebecca Asl is a Glasgow-based Geordie-Persian poet and journalist. Her work has appeared in publications such as Gutter Magazine, Modern Poetry in Translation and Middleground Magazine. She has performed her work around Scotland, including at Inky Fingers, Sonnet Youth and Aberdeen’s Look Again Festival. In 2020 Nasim was featured in the inaugural Fringe of […]
Reem Abbas is a Yemeni-Syrian reader, writer and lover of poems and, if really feeling it, the occasional short-story. She read her poems at SolidariTee’s Voices of Voyage poetry evening and is happy to have published her first poem, “Borderline Ghazal”, in the 258th issue of the PNR. She is currently writing her Ph.D. at […]
Maybe Mr Brontë’s fear of fire came earlier, Before TB, night sweats, fever, blood-tinged sputum Took his wife, entire kin, five daughters and a son, Till near blind, like Rochester, and alone He circled the table in the parlour: a lost prayer. Perhaps Patrick Brontë could see himself like this: Standing on the edge of […]