Michael Naghten Shanks

Every year I view this list as some kind of challenge – it would be so easy just to pick my ten best writing friends and cajole them into contributing but I really don’t think that that would represent the huge HUGE array of fantastic books…

Michael Naghten Shanks is the editor of online literary journal The Bohemyth. His own writing has featured or is forthcoming in various publications, including gorse, The Penny Dreadful, New Irish Writing, Southword, 3:AM and The Quietus.…

This month is going to be mad. Poets don't do summer holidays, they do poetry and this July is no exception. So get yourself to a poetry event, read a poem, write a poem, get jiggy with a damn poem. Here's July's poetrybeat round up to show…

Emily Berry grew up in London. An Eric Gregory award winner in 2008, her debut poetry collection Dear Boy (Faber and Faber, 2013) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013. She is currently working towards a PhD in Creative…

Dylan Brennan, originally from Dublin but currently based in Mexico, is a poet, memoirist, essayist and researcher. His debut poetry collection, Blood Oranges (The Dreadful Press, 2014), received the runner-up prize in the Patrick Kavanagh…

Michael Earl Craig is a poet and certified journeyman farrier who lives near Livingston, Montana. He is the author of four collections, most recently Thin Kimono (Wave Books, 2010) and Talkativeness (Wave Books, 2014). In the poems that…

Billy Ramsell is from Cork. He has published two collections with Dedalus Press, Complicated Pleasures in 2007 and The Architect’s Dream of Winter in 2013. Shortlisted for several prizes, including the Irish Times Poetry Now Award, he was…

Mira Gonzalez is from Los Angeles. Her first collection, i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together, was published by Sorry House at the start of 2013. Since then it has received numerous positive reviews and award…