George Sandifer-Smith’s #TheWhiskeyShot feature is here—memory, music, and the slow burn of poetry that refuses easy endings.

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Damien B Donnelly doesn’t write poems—he survives them.
Volcano panic, queer absence, and lyrical release.
This one cuts deep.

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“Creativity is not about what you make, but the process of making it.”
Perry Gasteiger writes with lyrical focus and emotional depth—each poem a quiet act of connection.
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Here’s your fucking scene...

Briony Collins isn’t here to perform grief. Her poems bite, bare, and break rules.
Read this spotlight then try to forget the name.

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Barney Ashton-Bullock doesn’t write poems—he sculpts them.
Queer memory, political noise, and lyrical bite. Read the feature:
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Solitude, scone dough, and the divine mess of language.
James McConachie writes with wit, clarity, and a ruthless ear for the real.
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History, illness, and wild resilience.
Lucy Heuschen writes poems that burn through centuries—personal, political, and fiercely alive.
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Poetry on trains. Grief in motion.
Robert Edge writes with raw timing and quiet impact—when life collides with memory, the poems show up.
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Robert Frede Kenter writes like a dream breaking through illness, image, and electric sound.
A visionary voice shaped by pain, punk, and patience.

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Romina Ramos writes with purpose, power, and a pen that doesn’t flinch.
Poetry packed with memory, movement, and the fight to be heard.

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Lesley Curwen writes with salt on the tongue and grief in the bones.
Poems that haunt, howl, and honour what’s gone.
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New Spotlight: Mark Antony Owen 🔥
Poetry built from hedgerows, memory, and myth. Structure by design, not tradition.
This one’s all edge.

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Today’s been a massive poetry day: 11 #TheWhiskeyTree #TheWhiskeyShot #PoetSpotlights scheduled for #Wave2, a new #BookReview of Beth Brooke’s Transformations published, and now onto final revisions of #UntamedLove and #OutSkirts

#TheWhiskeyShot: Poet Spotlight (Wave 2) - Bex Hainsworth - The Broken Spine Bex Hainsworth writes like someone who’s clawed her way toward clarity, not with polish, but with persistence. Her early poems were wild things, bulky

Spotlight on Bex Hainsworth 🔥
Poems of body, nature, and unflinching truth.

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