POETRY BIRMINGHAM
Literary Journal

I S S U E 4

 ‘This is the wasteland,’ she said as we drove through Stratford Road in Sparkbrook. ‘This is where I grew up,’ I replied. ‘What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow / Out of this stony rubbish?’

— ‘Dis/rupt/ed Schemas’, PBLJ4, Naush Sabah

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The Poets of Issue 4


Sana A. B. • Qudsia Akhtar • Amara Antoinette • Bebe Ashley • Casey Bailey • Khairani Barokka • Philip Berry • Carl Boon • Iain Britton • David Butler • Joe Caldwell • Graham Clifford • Oliver Comins • Kerry Darbishire • Isobel Dixon • Adrian B. Earle • Imogen Forster • Jacqueline Gabbitas • James Goodman • Khaled Hakim • Shaun Hill • Julie Hogg • Amanda Holiday • Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa • Anna Lawrence • Philip Miller • Jenny Mitchell • Jessica Mookherjee • J. L. M. Morton • S. Niroshini • Richard O'Brien • Lotte Mitchell Reford • Matt Riker • Anna Robinson • Marli Roode • Robert Selby • Kate Elspeth Simpson • Jon Stone • Ellora Sutton • Ruth Taaffe • L. Tayba • Anya Trofimova • Alice Willitts  • Alexa Winik