Delighted that our Editor’s Choice Poem for August will be chosen by Rob Miles.

Rob’s poetry has appeared widely or is forthcoming in magazines and anthologies such as Ambit, Orbis, The Interpreter’s House, York Literary Review, South Bank Poetry, The Anthology of Age and The Anthology of Love (both The Emma Press), Remembering Oluwale, Yorkshire Poetry (Valley Press), and Ten Poems about Brothers (Candlestick Press). He’s won competitions including the Philip Larkin, and Resurgence prizes. Other poems have been placed, commended or shortlisted in competitions including the Bridport, Guernsey, Wenlock, York, and Ilkley literature festivals, Live Canon, the Silver Wyvern, the Gregory O’Donoghue, and three times in the National Poetry Competition.