Our Editor’s Choice Poem for May will be selected by Patrick Lodge.

Patrick lives in Yorkshire and has an Irish/Welsh heritage. A retired academic, he now devotes much of his time to writing and to reviewing poetry. His work has been widely published, and translated in many countries.

He has been successful in poetry competitions such as the Envoi International and the Poetry Space International. He won the 2015 Blackwater International Poetry Competition, and has been invited to read at poetry festivals in the UK, Ireland and Italy.

Patrick reviews for Envoi, The High Window and Carillon.

His two latest collections, An Anniversary of Flight, and Shenanigans were published by Valley Press in 2013 and 2016 respectively.