Category: 2022

Alannah is a languages student who loves playing with words. She was a Foyle Young Poet in 2017, and in 2018 went on to win the Young Norfolk Writing Competition. Alannah has been published in The Mays Twenty Nine anthology and Hope x Monsters zine, and is co-editor of a local charity magazine.

Denise Saul is the author of two pamphlets. White Narcissi (Flipped Eye Publishing) was Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and House of Blue (Rack Press) was PBS Pamphlet Recommendation. She is the recipient of Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for her poem ‘Leaving Abyssinia’. Her first full-length collection, The Room Between Us, will be published… Continue reading Denise Saul

Books by JL Williams include Condition of Fire (Shearsman, 2011), Locust and Marlin (Shearsman, 2014), House of the Tragic Poet (If A Leaf Falls Press, 2016), After Economy (Shearsman, 2017) and Origin (Shearsman, 2022). Published widely in journals, her poetry has been translated into numerous languages. She has read at international literature festivals and venues… Continue reading JL Williams 

Ben Wilkinson was born in the English Midlands and lives in Sheffield. His poems and criticism regularly appear in national publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, The Poetry Review, The Spectator, and the Times Literary Supplement. His debut collection of poems, Way More Than Luck, was published by Seren in 2018 and won a Northern… Continue reading Ben Wilkinson

André Naffis-Sahely is the author of The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin UK, 2017) and the editor of The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature (Pushkin Press, 2020). His second collection, High Desert, will be published by Bloodaxe Books in June 2022. He is from Abu Dhabi, but was born… Continue reading André Naffis-Sahely

Eve Joseph lives and writes on the unceded traditional territories of the Lekwungen peoples. Her first two books of poetry The Startled Heart (Oolichan, 2004) and The Secret Signature of Things (Brick, 2010) were both nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award. Her nonfiction book In the Slender Margin was published by HarperCollins in 2014 and… Continue reading Eve Joseph

Khairani Barokka is a Minang-Javanese writer and artist from Jakarta, whose work has been presented widely internationally, and centres disability justice as anticolonial praxis. Among her honours, she has been Modern Poetry in Translation‘s Inaugural Poet-in-Residence, a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change, an Artforum Must-See, UK Associate Artist at Delfina Foundation, and Associate Artist at the National Centre for Writing… Continue reading Khairani Barokka

Kathleen Jamie, poet and essayist, was born in Scotland in 1962. Her work concerns nature, travel and culture. Her poetry collections include The Overhaul, which won the 2012 Costa Poetry Prize,and The Tree House, which won the Forward prize. Her non-fiction includes the highly regarded Findings, Sightlines, and Surfacing, all regarded as important contributions to… Continue reading Kathleen Jamie 

Romalyn Ante is a Filipino-British, Wolverhampton-based author. She is co-founding editor of harana poetry, a magazine for poets who write in English as a second or parallel language, and founder of Tsaá with Roma, an online interview series with poets and other artists. Her debut collection is Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto & Windus). She was… Continue reading Romalyn Ante

Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet and author who prior to the pandemic completed a world tour with her collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me. She founded SLAMbassadors, the UK national youth poetry slam championships, as well as the international spoken-word project Borderlines. She is widely anthologised, the author of 4 collections of poetry and… Continue reading Joelle Taylor