A Thousand Shades of Green

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 2022/2023 Magma Editors' Prize. Jen has edited anthol...

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, was a finalist in the Wales Poetry Award and h...

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 collection.   

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.

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 publications, and his second collection 'A Handful of Pray...

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 Trails: Poems by Women in a Violent World.

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 (Button Press) and 'sleeve notes' February 2024 (...

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 here  

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 one.

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 Kissed, Earth Wrought, Vision Drunk (with a North Ameri...

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 it a must-read for anyone captivated by the st...

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 Radio Sheffield. Nominated for the Rhysling Prize, a...

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 prose writer in The Storms Journal Issue 2 and has a...

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 also been published by The Storms Journal and his wor...

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 through major life change. During the pandemic...

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 Sue Finch on floweringink.com

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.

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 shortlisted in numerous poetry competitions including In...

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 Birds (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and he is curr...

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 painful work but it is always joyful.

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 and Ireland and is included in several anthologi...