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Linda France’s eight full-length poetry collections include: The Toast of the Kit Cat Club (Bloodaxe 2005), a biography in verse of the 18th century traveller and writer Lady Mary Wortley Montagu; book of days, a solitary ‘year renga’, (Smokestack Books … Continued

Originally from Northern Ireland, Miriam Gamble lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Her collections are The Squirrels Are Dead (2010), which won a Somerset Maugham Award, Pirate Music (2014), and What Planet (forthcoming, May 2019), all published … Continued

Catriona Macdonald is a proud bearer of one of the world’s great fiddle traditions, that of the Shetland Isles. A pupil of the late Dr Tom Anderson MBE, Catriona at once embodies the strength and spirit of her heritage with … Continued

Marjorie Lotfi Gill’s poems have won competitions, been published widely in journals and anthologies (including Ambit, Gutter, Magma, The North, Rattle and The Rialto) and been performed on BBC Radio 4. Her pamphlet Refuge, poems about her childhood in revolutionary … Continued

Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her fifth Bloodaxe collection is The Anatomical Venus (May 2019). She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and is a tutor for the UEA/NCW creative writing programme. Fool’s World , a … Continued

Jon Stone is a writer and editor who specialises in hybrid forms, sequences and collaborations. He is one half of Sidekick Books, a small press publisher of innovative multi-author anthologies, most recently the Headbooks Series, which combine interactive customisable pages … Continued

Sue Parrish is artistic director and producer at the Sphinx Theatre Company. She has thirty years’ experience of making theatre with text, working with Classics and New Writing and directing Shakespeare music theatre for the City of London Festival. Her … Continued

Joseph’s recent credits as arranger and musical director include the Olivier-nominated Josephine and I (Bush Theatre, London and Public Theater, New York), Not Such Quiet Girls (Opera North and Leeds Playhouse co-production) All I Want is One Night (Manchester Royal … Continued

Described by Le Monde as ‘As fine an actor as she is a singer,’ soprano Sarah Gabriel has performed operatic roles from Handel and Mozart to Benjamin Britten, and many contemporary new works. She has given recitals of music spanning … Continued