Liz Berry
Liz Berry received an Eric Gregory Award in 2009. Her poems have appeared in magazines and on Radio 3. Her debut pamphlet, The Patron Saint of Schoolgirls, was published in 2010. She is an Emerging Poet in Residence at Kingston University and a 2011 Arvon/Jerwood mentee
Ros Barber
Ros Barber is the author of two volumes of poetry with Anvil, the most recent of which was a Poetry Society Recommendation. Her novel-in-verse The Marlowe Papers, a fictional autobiography of Christopher Marlowe, will be published by Sceptre in 2012.
Andrew Philip
Andrew Philip was born in Aberdeen in 1975 and grew up near Falkirk and studied linguistics at Edinburgh University. The Ambulance Box, (Salt 2009) included several poems that relate to his son’s death shortly after birth. He is interested in Scots and Gaelic as well as English.
Michael Kavanagh
Michael Kavanagh is a Canadian who has lived in England and Scotland for over ten years. His poetry for children has been published in the anthologies Read Me At School (MacMillan) and Michael Rosen’s A-Z, The Best Children’s Poetry From Agard to Zephaniah (Puffin). He edits the children’s poetry magazine The Scrumbler.
Kate Potts
Kate Potts was born in South London in 1978. She worked in music publishing before training as a teacher. Her pamphlet Whichever Music (tall-lighthouse, 2008) was a Poetry Book Society Choice and was shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award. In 2009 she received an Arts Council award towards her first collection Pure Hustle (Bloodaxe, 2011). […]
Edward Mackay
Edward Mackay is a poet living and working in east London. His work has been published in journals and anthologies, including Stand and The Rialto. His poetry was shortlisted for the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize (2011), commended in the Emerge Escalator competition (2010) and shortlisted for an Eric Gregory Award (2009). A pamphlet is forthcoming […]
Jacqueline Saphra
Jacqueline Saphra organises the successful ‘Shuffle’ poetry readings in London and is one of the editors of UK poetry journal Magma. Her first collection The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Festival First Collection Prize. She has a whole previous incarnation as a playwright and was also a very successful participant in […]
Stevie Ronnie
Stevie Ronnie is a poet and artist and a successful participant in Cove Park’s Fielding Programme. His pamphlet length collections include The Thing To Do When You Are Not In Love (SAND / Red Squirrel, 2008) and Another Voice (Hatton Gallery / Tyne and Wear Museums, 2011). He has recently received awards from New Writing […]
Nia Davies
Nia Davies was awarded a place on the Academi Gymreig mentoring scheme for writers in 2008. Polaris is her first novel, inspired by Arctic Scandinavia. Her poems have been published in several magazines and anthologies and her first pamphlet will be published by Salt in autumn 2012. Nia also writes non-fiction pieces such as country […]
Xiaolu Guo
Xiaolu Guo was born in 1973 in China and comes from a family of sea lovers. Her grandfather was a fisherman, her father was sent to a labour camp in the 60s because he wanted to paint the sea instead of being a farmer. At 19 she left her hometown and studied at Beijing Film […]
Jo Shapcott
Jo Shapcott was born on the 24th March 1953, in London, and is a poet, editor and lecturer. Shapcott has won the National Poetry Competition twice, in 1985 and 1991. Her Book: Poems 1988-1998 (2000; reprinted 2006) consists of poetry from her three earlier collections: Electroplating the Baby (1988), which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize […]
Inua Ellams
Inua Ellams is a word and graphic artist based in London. He was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to the UK as a teenager. His work merges visual art, spoken word and theatre, and he is known for his iconic imagery, beauty and attention to detail. He writes about his upbringing, the experience […]