Thanks to everyone who submitted poems to Blue Diode Press over the last fortnight. The submission window for the 2020 list is now closed and I’m reading and reflecting. 2020 looks like it will be an exciting year for the press though! I am very pleased to announce that we will be publishing two brilliant first collections in October 2019: Split by Juana Adcock and Bitten Hair by Tessa Berring. They are both singular writers. Juana, a Mexican/Scottish bilingual poet, interrog