I S S U E 1
To question one’s ontology is human. It’s an undeniable marker of cognisance, of intelligence; the poetry we have always been drawn to as individuals and now as editors seems to ask that question of itself: ‘Why,’ it says, albeit a little melodramatically, ‘must I exist?’ This journal exists because it must. It exists because we have spent too long in repurposed smoking rooms, wondering why there’s a poetry-journal-shaped hole in Birmingham’s cultural footprint.
— Editorial, PBLJ1, Suna Afshan & Naush Sabah
The Poets of Issue 1
George Aird • Josh Allsop • Jean Atkin • Zohar Atkins • Miranda Lynn Barnes • Luke Beddow • Alison Brackenbury • Marc Brightside • Matt Bryden • Angela T. Carr • Geraldine Clarkson • Gareth Culshaw • Ian Dudley • James Giddings • Howie Good • Rebecca Ruth Gould • Emma Harding • Katie Haworth • Leila Howl • Sneha Subramanian Kanta • Zannah Kearns • Faustine Ladeiro-Levent • Gregory Leadbetter • Lee Mackenzie • Gill McEvoy • Philip Miller • Max Mulgrew • Kate Noakes • Michelle Penn • John Porter • Hilary Robinson •Mark Russell • Alix Scott-Martin • Robert Selby • Caroline Smith • Ellora Sutton • Christina Thatcher • Serena Trowbridge • Iain Twiddy • Alexander Velky • Claire Walker • Jack Warren
