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NIJO Cenka(二条千河) was born in and currently lives in Hokkaido, Japan. Her third poetry collection “Chronicle of a Corpse” published in 2021 received the 32nd Japan Poets Club Debut Award. She is also runner-up at the national poetry slam “KOTOBA Slam Japan 2023.”
https://nijogawara.squares.net/
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ONAI Kotaro lives in Hamamatsu city (Japan). His poems have appeared in The Shizuoka Shimbun, "Ramazan" 断食月 and municipal anthologies. He won Three-Poetry Form division in the 9th Poetry Triathlon, in 2023. and he organizes poetry events called "Shidon" 詩丼, where anyone can sell poetry books and recite poems.
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Tim Taylor was born in Stoke-on-Trent, UK. His poems have appeared in various magazines (e.g. Acumen, Orbis, Pennine Platform, Ink, Sweat & Tears) and anthologies. His first poetry collection, Sea Without a Shore, was published in June 2019; his second, LifeTimes, in March 2022, both by Maytree Press. Tim has also published two novels and is currently working on a sci-fi project.
Formerly a civil servant, Tim is a visiting research fellow at the Applied Ethics Centre at Leeds University. He enjoys playing the guitar and walking up hills (not usually at the same time).
https://timwordsblog.wordpress.com/
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Yuko Minamikawa Adams (南川優子) grew up in Japan and now lives in England. She writes poetry in Japanese and English, and her poems have appeared in UK, Irish, US and Japanese magazines. Her most recent Japanese collection is Skirt (Kozui Kikaku) and her first English collection is Window.
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