2019

Ahren Warner’s first collection, Confer (Bloodaxe Books, 2011), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2013. He was awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 2010 … Continued

Seán Hewitt’s debut pamphlet is Lantern (Offord Road Books, 2019). He was a member of the Aldeburgh Eight (2015), won a Northern Writers’ Award in 2016, and won the Resurgence Prize in 2017. He lives and works in Dublin. Events … Continued

Susannah Dickey is the author of two poetry pamphlets, both published with The Lifeboat press: I had some very slight concerns (2017) and genuine human values (2018). Her poetry has appeared online and in print in Ambit, Magma, The Scores, The White Review, … Continued

Iris Colomb is a poet, artist, curator, editor, and translator based in London. Her projects often involve experimental translation, performance, and artist books. Her pamphlet I’m Shocked come out with Bad Betty Press in 2018, her chapbook Just promise you … Continued

Martin Kratz’s first pamphlet, A Skeleton’s Progress (Poetry Salzburg), was published in 2018. He is co-editor of Mount London (Penned in the Margins, 2014), a book that explores hills and other elevations in the capital. He translates from the German … Continued

Marilyn Hacker has, in a career spanning more than 40 years, established herself as a pre- eminent poet and translator. She is renowned for her use of form, and her mixing of colloquial and high culture, and has been aptly … Continued

Toby Martinez de las Rivas was born in 1978. He has published two books with Faber & Faber; Terror (2014) and Black Sun (2018). A recipient of several awards, he has had work published across America, the UK and Europe, … Continued

Deryn Rees-Jones is a poet, editor and literary critic. Her selected poems, What It’s Like to Be Alive, was published in 2016 and was a PBS Special Commendation. Erato is published in June 2019 and her monograph, Paula Rego: The … Continued

Emily Hasler was born in Suffolk but has washed up on the Essex side of the River Stour. She has been a Hawthornden Fellow and received an Eric Gregory Award in 2014. A pamphlet, Natural Histories, was published by Salt … Continued

Phoebe Power was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grew up in Cumbria and currently lives in York. Her debut poetry collection, Shrines of Upper Austria (Carcanet, 2018) was awarded the 2018 Forward (Felix Dennis) Prize for Best First Collection, was shortlisted for the 2018 … Continued