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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

David Constantine was born in 1944 in Salford, Lancashire. He read Modern Languages at Wadham College, Oxford, and lectured in German at Durham from 1969 to 1981 and at Oxford from 1981 to 2000. He is a freelance writer and … Continued

Sandeep Parmar is Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool where she co-directs Liverpool’s Centre for New and International Writing. She holds a PhD from University College London and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of … Continued

Jeremy Noel-Tod is a lecturer in the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. His literary criticism has been widely published, in the Daily Telegraph, the Literary Review, the Times Literary Supplement, Prospect, the … Continued

J. R. Carpenter is an artist, writer, and researcher working across live performance, print, and digital media. Her digital writing has been presented in journals, galleries, museums, and festivals around the world. This is a Picture of Wind, a weather … Continued

Alec Finlay (Scotland, 1966-) is an artist & poet whose work crosses over a range of media and forms and considers how we relate to landscape and ecology, with a specific interest in place-awareness, hutopianism, rewilding, and wellbeing. Finlay established … Continued