Category: 2022

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

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 

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

Kitty is in her first year studying Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge. She was commended in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award 2020 and won the year 12-13 category of the 2021 GDST Laurie Magnus Poetry Prize.

Hannah Lowe is a poet, memoirist and academic. Her latest book, The Kids, a Poetry Book Society ‘Choice’ for Autumn, won the Costa Poetry Award and the Costa Book of the Year, 2021. Her first poetry collection Chick (Bloodaxe, 2013) won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection. In September 2014, she was named… Continue reading Hannah Lowe 

Nadia Lines is a 20-year-old poet based in Cambridge. She was a Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2019, and has won the Orwell Youth Prize and the Tower Poetry Competition. Her debut pamphlet, Stephen the Phlebotomist, is out May 2022 with Nine Pens Press.

Rishi Dastidar’s poetry has been published by the Financial Times and BBC amongst many others. He is a fellow of The Complete Works, a consulting editor at The Rialto magazine, a member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen, and chair of writer development organization Spread The Word. A poem from his debut collection Ticker-tape was included in… Continue reading Rishi Dastidar