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About Billy Mills

Billy Mills, is a poet, editor, and formerly a literary journalist at guardian.co.uk. He was born Dublin in 1954. After some years spent in Spain and the UK, he currently lives in Limerick. He is co-editor (with Catherine Walsh) of hardpressed Poetry.

His Lares/Manes: Collected Poems was published by Shearsman in 2009, and Imaginary Gardens and Loop Walks by hardPressed poetry in 2012 and 2013 respectively. Most recently, The City Itself was published by Hesterglock Press in 2017.

You can find Billy on Twitter @BmillsBilly an on his blog, ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com.

To The Many: Collected Early Works by Lola Ridge, reviewed by Billy Mills

Billy Mills

Lola Ridge - To the Many: Collected Early Works edited by Daniel Tobin

To the Many: Collected Early Works by Lola Ridge. Daniel Tobin, ed. / Little Island Press / August 2018 Lola Ridge’s life was, in many ways, a tale of her times. Born Rose Emily Ridge in … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

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