A Thousand Shades of Green

Mary Earnshaw

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 written freelance. She has spent lots of time in Africa, mostly in Zambia, thanks to marrying an archaeologist. Mary began writing poetry in earnest in 2019. In 2021, she was shortlisted for the Bridport poetry prize and Julian Lennon poetry prize. Her poetry, short fiction and creative non-fiction have appeared in various print journals and anthologies. A pamphlet, ‘Belisama’, was a prize-winning ‘new alliance’ with three other Merseyside poets. Mary spent 2022/2023 writing a non-fiction book based around visiting monastic ruins, ‘Right Awful and Sublime’ a sentimental journey among the ruins of belief  which she is currently submitting. 

Doreen Duffy

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 from Sídhe Press, Black Bough Poetry Christmas/Winter 2022 & 2023, The Galway Review, Flash Fiction USA, The Woman’s Way and The Irish Times. She won The Jonathan Swift Award, was presented with The Deirdre Purcell Cup at The Maria Edgeworth Literary Festival, and Shortlisted in The Francis MacManus Competition, with her story, ‘Tattoo’ which was broadcast on RTE Radio One.

Eilín de Paor

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, was published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press. She worked with Damien again as sub-editor for Issue #2 of The Storms: a journal of poetry, prose and visual art. Eilín’s poems have appeared in The Stony Thursday Book, Our Own Coordinates from Sídhe Press, Black Bough Press Christmas & Winter Volumes 2 & 3, Banshee, The Storms, The Frogmore Papers, Iamb, Skylight 47, Flights, The Waxed Lemon, Belfield Literary Review, Abridged, New Ohio Review, The Night Heron Barks and Raleigh Review, among others.

Tiny Bright Thorns

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 anthologies for Black Bough Poetry and The Mum Poem Press, and her pamphlet Tiny Bright Thorns was published in 2024 by Nine Pens. Find her on X @jenlareine and on Instagram @jenferoze.
 
Signed copies of Tiny Bright Thorns are available here (UK only): https://jackdaweditorial.com/product/tinybrightthorns/
 
The pamphlet is also available from Nine Pens: https://ninepens.co.uk/shop#!/products/tiny-bright-thorns---jen-feroze
 

Rescue Lines

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 has an eco-chapbook, 'Sticky with Miles' from Dreich Press.  Her poems have been published by Bad Lilies, Black Bough, Broken Sleep, Atrium, Spelt, The Alchemy Spoon and Ice Floe Press. 
  
Her website is www.lesleycurwenpoet.com and she is often on X (Twitter) as @elcurwen. 
'Rescue Lines' is available from Hedgehog Poetry Press here: 
 

Highland Boundary Fault

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.   

Season 3 Finale

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

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 Prayers' is forthcoming with Wipf & Stock.

Mo Schoenfeld

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 McKenna

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 (Button Press). 
 
He is currently submitting work for publication which will inform his first full collection. Awarded grants from DfC, UoA and Arts Council in December 2021 and December 2022, he has appeared three times as a guest on Eat the Storms podcast. Marty is a neurodivergent poet.