Martin Johns, Mr Non-Member New

Poet and activist

Poetry

Martin Johns has been widely published in poetry magazines including The Rialto, Acumen, Pennine Press, The Canons Mouth, and The Frogmore Papers. His work has featured in anthologies such as Over Land Over Sea, poems for those seeking refuse, and Can you Hear the People Sing? A Global Response to the Pandemic. Martin has collaborated with several composers from both the Royal Northern College of Music, and the Birmingham Conservatoire. His work has been performed at the Leeds Lieder Festival. He has read at the Poetry Café in London and at the Manchester Royal Exchange with Carol Anne Duffy and Friends and at the International Anthony Burgess Centre.

Martin has two pamphlets published by Palewell Press. His poem Hiraeth won the Milton Keynes Literary Festival Poetry Competition in 2025.