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David Spittle is a poet, filmmaker, and essayist. His second collection, Rubbles (Broken Sleep Books, 2022) was praised by the PBS as a ‘provocative and electric read’. His debut, All Particles and Waves was published by Black Herald Press (2020) following the pamphlet, B O X (HVTN, 2018). A book of interviews with filmmakers on… Continue reading David Spittle

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 

Anne Ryland’s third poetry collection, Unruled Journal, was published by Valley Press last October. Her previous books are Autumnologist, shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2006, and The Unmothering Class, a New Writing North Read Regional choice (both by Arrowhead Press). She gained a Distinction in Newcastle University’s inaugural MA in Writing… Continue reading Anne Ryland 

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

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 

Spoken word poet living just outside of Edinburgh. From the hilarious to hard hitting, Bartlett-McNeil enjoys writing most about the small moments of the every day, the dramatic (or otherwise!) highs and lows of her own rollercoaster ride through life. Highlights include a collaboration with whisky magnate Diageo, supporting Shane Koyczan at his Edinburgh show… Continue reading Georgia Bartlett McNeil

Born and grew up in Hong Kong, Jennifer is the author of several collections including Goldfish (Chameleon Press) and a pamphlet, Diary of a Miu Miu Salesgirl (Bitter Melon Poetry 2019). Her latest collection, 回家 Letters Home (Nine Arches Press 2020)—which explores the complexities of history, migration and translation—has been named the PBS Wild Card… Continue reading Jennifer Wong 

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

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.

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