Louise MachenLouise Machen is a Mancunian poet and a graduate of The Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester. Her poetry likes to explore the complicated relationships between people and the world through a working-class lens. Her work has most recntly appeared in The Poetry Bus (nominated for The Forward Prize, Single Poem), Dreich, Acropolis Journal, The Morning Star, Sound and Vision - an Anthology from Black Bough Poetry and Cape Magazine. Louise has been a featured poet at East Ridge Review with a poem nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2023); she also has two poems nominated for Best of the Net (2023) Read More Read Less