MINGLED VOICES 4 is an anthology of one hundred and twenty-four poems, the work of sixty-nine poets, selected from those which were entered in the fourth annual international competition for the International Proverse Poetry Prize in 2019. The International Proverse Poetry Prize was jointly founded in 2016 by Dr Gillian Bickley and Dr Verner Bickley MBE, in association with the annual international Proverse Prize for unpublished book-length fiction, non-fiction or poetry, submitted in English, which they also founded, in 2008. Poems could be submitted on any subject or topic, chosen by each poet, or on the subject chosen for 2019 by the Administrators, “Plastic”. There was a free choice of interpretation, form and style. Poems were submitted from around the world by writers with a variety of previous writing experience. Brief biographies of those whose work is represented in Mingled Voices 4 are included in the anthology as well as author’s background notes on their work.