Each themed issue presents work from the surreal to the sensual and points in between – poems that not only sound as good as they look, but taste as good as they feel. About The Editors
Dimitra Xidous’ poems have been published in literary journals in Canada, Ireland and the US, including Room, Penduline and The Weary Blues. She was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize (2013), Over The Edge Emergin
g New Writer (2013) and long-listed for the Montreal International Poetry Competition (2011). Most recently her work was included in the New Planet Cabaret Anthology and she will be the featured poet in the Spring 2014 issue of The Stinging Fly. She curates The Ash Sessions, a poetry and music showcase at Nick’s Coffee Company. She is co-curator of Baring Our Ashes, a collaboration between The Ash Sessions and Bare Hands Poetry. Her debut collection Keeping Bees is published by Doire Press (March 2014). Patrick Chapman is the author of six poetry collections, the latest of which is A Promiscuity of Spines: New & Selected Poems (Salmon, 2012). His second collection of fiction is The Negative Cutter (Arlen House, 2014). He wrote the award-winning film Burning the Bed, the Doctor Who audio adventure Fear of the Daleks and many episodes of Garth & Bev and Wildernuts for television. Twice a finalist in the Hennessy Literary Award, he is also a Pushcart nominee.
