Mary Earnshaw’s writing life began in technical journalism as a European editor covering telecommunications and electronic defense for an American company – after a history degree! She has worked in PR, both as a consultant and in-house. Mary has lived and worked in the Netherlands (with Philips), run a small academic press and she has always writt…

Doreen Duffy is a Creative Writer and Tutor, with an MA in Creative Writing from DCU, where she graduated with first class honours. She is a Pushcart nominated writer who has been widely published in journals including, Poetry Ireland Review 129 by Eavan Boland, The Storms Journal Issues 1, 3, and the soon to be released Issue 4, Glisk & Glimmer fr…

Eilín de Paor lives in Dublin. She writes short-form lyric and narrative poems and can be found on X and Linktree as @edepaor. Alongside poetry, she works in services for people with disabilities and is currently studying towards a PhD in that field. Her collaborative pamphlet, 'In the Jitterfritz of Neon', written together with Damien B. Donnelly,…

Jen Feroze is a UK poet living by the sea. Her work has been widely published, featuring in Under The Radar, Poetry Wales, iamb, Butcher's Dog, Stanchion, Okay Donkey, Magma, Berlin Lit, And Other Poems, Black Iris, Chestnut Review and more. She won the Poetry Business International Book and Pamphlet Competition in 2024 and placed second in the 202…

Lesley Curwen is a poet, broadcaster and sailor who lives in Plymouth. She writes about loss and rescue, and is drawn to the sea as a source of comfort and deep joy. Her new collection 'Rescue Lines' deals with traumas around forced adoption and coercive control. It is about finding, and losing a sister. She won the Molecules Unlimited Poetry Prize…

Emma McKervey is originally from Holywood, Co. Down, and now lives in a fishing village on the Ards Peninsula with her artist husband and their son. She has been writing poetry since childhood. Her debut collection, The Rag Tree Speaks, was published by Doire Press. Highland Boundary Fault, published by Turas Press in May 2024, is her second collec…

The Season 3 Finale of A Thousand Shades of Green highlights the diverse and beautiful writing from all of our Season 2 featured writers: Julian Day, Rhona Greene, Paul Brookes, Karen Pierce Gonzalez, Bojana Stojcic, Marty McKenna, Mo Schoenfeld and Peter Lilly.Susan Richardson

Peter Lilly is a British Poet who grew up in Gloucester before spending eight years in London studying theology and working with the homeless. He now lives in the South of France with his wife and son, where he concentrates on writing, teaching English, and community building. His debut Collection 'An Array of Vapour’ is available with TSL publicat…

Mo Schoenfeld’s work appears online and in print at Irisi Magazine, Haiku Crush’s The Best Haiku 2021-23, Tiny Wren Lit, Pure Haiku’s blog, Annick Yerem’s Advent Calendar, Fevers of the Mind, the Wombwell Rainbow and The Storms, as well as the Sídhe Press anthologies, Our Own Coordinates: Poems About Dementia, Glisk and Glimmer, and To Light the Tr…

Marty is an independent Irish poet, born in Tyrone, now living and writing in Belfast. Marty works for the Belfast Trust and has poems published widely in both online and print journals. He won the Matrix Poetry prize in 2017. He has published three chapbooks 'silent stigma, loud leaf' October 2021 (Button Press), 'gently, but a dream' October 2022…

Join Susan for this Special Episode, where she celebrates the brand new collaborative poetry collection, “Pivot Points and Portals”, from Karen Mooney and Caroline Johnstone, published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press. You can buy your very own copy hereSusan Richardson

Serbia-born and Germany-based, Bojana Stojcic has work published widely across print and online journals, including Burning House Press, Down in the Dirt, Entropy, GLITCHWORDS, Indian Periodical and MockingHeart Review, among others. When not teaching, writing or reading, she can be found swimming or making chocolate cakes with her darling young on…

An award-winning writer, Karen Pierce Gonzalez's work has appeared in numerous print and online publications, radio and podcast shows. Her chapbooks include Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs (Kelsay Books), True North and Sightings from a Star Wheel (Origami Poems Project), and forthcoming Down River with Li Po (Black Cat Poetry Press) and Moon Kisse…

Handpicked by Alan Parry, these poems discuss love in its myriad forms. Untamed Love explores the terrains of affection, longing, and resilience. From intimate whispers to the stark realities of life’s challenges, each piece navigates the depths of the heart. The Whiskey Tree; Untamed Love (Wave 1) is a celebration of love’s enduring spirit, making…

Paul Brookes is a shop asst. His chapbooks include Wolf Eye, (Red Ceilings Press, 2023), Wolf Eye Territory,(ImpSpired, 2024). Forthcoming Ever Striding Edge, (Dark Winter Press, 2024). He edits The Wombwell Rainbow Interviews and challenges and a new substack webzine, The Starbeck Orion. He has had work broadcast on BBC Radio 3 The Verb and BBC Ra…

Rhona Greene is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer from Dublin is addicted to poetry and loves to read and celebrate the work of the wonderful online poetry community. She is published in several Black Bough Poetry editions, was shortlisted for the Dai Fry Mystical Award and her poem in Afterfeather gave the edition its name. She was the featured pr…

Julian Day is a writer currently based in Surrey. His poetry has been published by Blackbough Poetry press, in their online spring and print winter 2023 anthologies. He was their featured poet in the spring edition and has been one of their guest readers on Zoom. Julian has been nominated for a Best Of The Net by Blackbough Poetry. His work has als…

Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella, celebrating Back From Away, the striking new poetry collection from Damien B. Donnelly, published by Turas Press. You can buy your very own copy of Back From Away here, and find out more about Damien on floweringink.com.…

Lucy Heuschen is a British poet living in the countryside near Bonn, Germany with her family and rescue dog. She came back to reading and writing poetry after a twenty-year legal career and a life-changing breast cancer diagnosis in 2018. After her cancer treatment, in 2020 Lucy founded The Rainbow Poems, an online poetry community for anyone going…

Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella. In this episode, we celebrate, “Welcome to The Museum of a Life”, the new poetry collection from Sue Finch, published by Black Eyes Publishing. You can buy your very own copy of Welcome to the Museum of a Life here, and find out more about Su…

Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella. In this Special Episode, we celebrate Dawn’s Incision, the new forthcoming poetry collection from David Hanlon, published by Ice Floe Press. You can learn about David on floweringink.com and find him on Facebook, Twitter (X) @DavidHanlon13.…

Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella, celebrating The Breadcrumb Trail, the new poetry collection from Lawrence Moore, published by JC Studio Press. You can buy your very own copy of The Breadcrumb Trail Amazon UK, and find out more about Lawrence on floweringink.com.…

Welcome to In Between the Seasons, a Special Series residing under the A Thousand Shades of Green umbrella, celebrating Charybdis, the newest novel from Suzanne Craig -Whytock, published by JC Studio Press. You can buy your very own copy of Charybis here , and find out more about Suzanne on flowerinignk.com…

The Season 2 Finale of A Thousand Shades of Green highlights the diverse and beautiful writing from all of our Season 2 featured writers: Gaynor Kane, Sue Finch, David Hanlon, Basilike Pappa, Karen Mooney, Beth Brooke, Jude Marr and Pratibha Castle.Susan Richardson

Pratibha Castle, an Irish born poet living in West Sussex, is widely anthologised and published in journals and ezines including Agenda, The Friday Poem, High Window, Orbis, Spelt, Stand, Tears in The Fence, and One Hand Clapping. A Pushcart nominee, short listed in The Bridport Prize 2023, her work has additionally been highly commended and shortl…

Jude Marr (he, him) is a Pushcart-nominated trans poet, editor and teacher. Jude’s full-length collection, We Know Each Other By Our Wounds, came out from Animal Heart Press in 2020, and he admires the press’s founders so much that he now also works with them, as a reader, editor, and social media person. Jude also has a chapbook, Breakfast for the…

Beth is a Dorset based writer. She has three published pamphlets- A Landscape With Birds (2022), Transformations (2023) - both published by Hedgehog Press and Chalk Stories, also published in 2023 by Hobnob Press. Beth feels that writing is a compulsion; sometimes she sees something and the words just come, sometimes it’s very slow and almost painf…

Karen herds sleepless night notions to shear and tease apart from the heart before attempting to knit them into a garment that others can slip into. The Hedgehog Poetry Press has published some of those garments; more recent work can be found in The Storms, a journal of poetry, prose and visual art. Karen’s work has been published in the UK, USA an…

Basiliké Pappa lives in Greece. She writes poetry, myth retellings, and sometimes, short stories. Her work can be found in Heron Tree, Carmina Magazine, Dark Passions, Otoroshi Journal, DarkWinter Literary Magazine, Rat’s Ass Review, and others. You can also read her in the anthologies Darker Objects (Indie Blu(e) Publishing, 2023), Hidden in Child…

David Hanlon is a poet from Cardiff, Wales. He is co-poetry editor for Broken Spine Arts. You can find his work online in over 80 magazines, including Rust & Moth, Barren Magazine, The Lumiere Review & trampset. His first chapbook Spectrum of Flight is available at Animal Heart Press. You can follow him on twitter @davidhanlon13 and Instagram @hanl…

Sue Finch likes all kinds of coasts, peculiar things, and the scent of ice-cream freezers. She lives with her wife in North Wales. Her first published poem appeared in A New Manchester Alphabet in 2015 whilst studying for her MA with Manchester Metropolitan University. She won second prize in the Wild Words Single Poem contest in 2020 with ‘Flaming…

Gaynor Kane, from Belfast in Northern Ireland, had no idea that when she started a degree with the OU at forty it would be life changing. It turned her into a writer and now she has a few collections of poetry published, all by The Hedgehog Poetry Press. Her latest chapbook, Eight Types of Love, was released in July 2022. You can contact Gaynor on …

This episode celebrates all of the incredible writers from Season 1: Samantha Terrell, Lawrence Moore, Steve Denehan, Robin Denehan, Damien B. Donnelly, Suzanne Craig-Whytock, and Annick Yerem. You can find our more about each of them at floweringink.comSusan Richardson

Annick Yerem is a German/ Scottish poet and EIC of Sídhe Press, who lives in Berlin. Her book, St Eisenberg and the Sunshine Bus, was published with Hedgehog Press in 2022. She has work in a few wonderful places, among them The Storms, iamb, The Dirigible Balloon, Anti-Heroin-Chic, Green Ink Poetry, Feral and Stanza Cannon. Annick´s goal is to coll…

Suzanne Craig-Whytock is the author of four novels: Smile, The Dome (English version, 2019; international Arabic translation, 2022), The Seventh Devil, and The Devil You Know, all published by Bookland Press, two short story collections: Feasting Upon The Bones and At The End Of It All, both published by Potter’s Grove Press, and the humorous non-f…

Damien B. Donnelly is the award-winning author of the poetry pamphlet Eat the Storms, a Stickleback micro-collection and the conversational pamphlet In the Jitterfritz of Neon, co-written by Eilín de Paor, all published by Hedgehog Poetry Press. He’s the host & producer of Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast and editor-in-chief of The Storms, a prin…

Steve Denehan lives in Kildare, Ireland with his wife Eimear and daughter Robin. He is the author of two chapbooks and four poetry collections. Winner of the Anthony Cronin Poetry Award and twice winner of Irish Times' New Irish Writing, his numerous publication credits include Poetry Ireland Review and Westerly. You can find links to buy his books…

Lawrence Moore has lived in the coastal city of Portsmouth, England since birth and shares a house overlooking Kingston Cemetery with his husband Matthew and their nine mostly well behaved cats. His poems have appeared in publications including Sarasvati, Fahmidan Journal, Green Ink Poetry, Dreich and The Madrigal. He released a debut chapbook, Aer…

Samantha Terrell is the author of multiple five-star collections. Her poem "Just Justice" was shortlisted for the 2021 Anita McAndrews Poets for Human Rights Award by Poets Without Borders. Terrell's poetry has been widely anthologized in publications such as Green Ink Poetry, In Parentheses, Misfit Magazine, Red Weather, Wildfire Words, and others…

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