Tim Liardet is a poet twice nominated for the T. S. Eliot Prize, a critic, and Professor of Poetry at Bath Spa University.
Roger Nash BA, MA, PhD (Exon) is a Canadian philosopher and poet. He was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England on 3 November 1942. He grew up in England, Egypt, Cyprus, Singapore and Hong Kong. He has a B.A. from the University of Wales (1965), an M.A. from McMaster University (1966) and a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter (1974).
Pattiann Rogers is an American poet, and a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry. In 2018, she was awarded a special John Burroughs Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Nature Poetry.
Roderick Chalmers "Roddy" Lumsden was a Scottish poet, writing mentor and quizzer. He was born in St Andrews and educated at Madras College and the University of Edinburgh. He published seven collections of poetry, a number of pamphlets, and a collection of trivia. He also edited a generational anthology of British and Irish poets of the 1990s and 2000s, Identity Parade, and The Salt Book of Younger Poets. His collections The Book of Love and So Glad I'm Me were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
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Sinister Wisdom is an American lesbian literary, theory, and art journal published quarterly in Berkeley, California. Started in 1976 by Catherine Nicholson and Harriet Ellenberger (Desmoines) in Charlotte, North Carolina, it is the longest established lesbian journal, with 128 issues as of 2023. Each journal covers topics pertaining to the lesbian experience including creative writing, poetry, literary criticism and feminist theory. Sinister Wisdom accepts submissions from novice to accredited writers and has featured the works of writers and artists such as Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich. The journal has pioneered female publishing, working with female operated publishing companies such as Whole Women Press and Iowa City Women's Press. Sapphic Classics, a partnership between Sinister Wisdom and A Midsummer Night's Press, reprints classic lesbian works for contemporary audiences.
The Seasons is a series of four poems written by the Scottish author James Thomson. The first part, Winter, was published in 1726, and the completed poem cycle appeared in 1730.
William Virgil Davis is an American poet.
Carole Bromley is a British poet, and creative writing tutor for the University of York.
Hillary Menos is an English poet. She is a two-time winner of The Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition, for her pamphlets Extra Maths and Human Tissue, and won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection for Berg (Seren) in 2010.
Martyn Crucefix is a British poet, translator and reviewer. Published predominantly by Enitharmon Press, his work ranges widely from vivid and tender lyrics to writing that pushes the boundaries of the extended narrative poem. His themes encompass questions of history and identity and – influenced by his translations of Rainer Maria Rilke – more recent work focuses on the transformations of imagination and momentary epiphanies. His new translation of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus was published by Enitharmon in the autumn of 2012. Most recent publication is The Time We Turned published by Shearsman Books in 2014.
Anita Marie Barnard is an American poet and visual artist working in glass, concrete, paint, mosaic, and collage.
Yvonne Green was an English poet, translator, writer and barrister.
Kayo Chingonyi is a Zambian British poet and editor who is the author of two poetry collections, Kumukanda and A Blood Condition (2021). He has also published two earlier pamphlets, Some Bright Elegance and The Colour of James Brown’s Scream.
Zoë Brigley or Zoë Brigley Thompson is a Welsh poet, editor of Poetry Wales, and assistant professor in the Department of English of Ohio State University.
Wayne Holloway-Smith is a British poet. He was born in Swindon, Wiltshire, and currently lives in London.
Jayant Kashyap is an Indian poet and academic. In 2021, his poem 'Earth, Fire', written after Yvonne Reddick's 'Translating Mountains from the Gaelic', won the Young Poets competition at the Wells Festival of Literature, judged by the poet Phoebe Stuckes. Kashyap's first pamphlet, Survival, was published by Clare Songbirds Publishing House in 2019, and his second, Unaccomplished Cities, was published by Ghost City Press in 2020. In 2021, Skear Zines published a limited-edition zine, Water. His third pamphlet, Notes on Burials, won the Poetry Business New Poets Prize in 2024, judged by the poet Holly Hopkins. He is the only India-based winner of both the Wells Festival of Literature's Young Poets competition, and of the New Poets Prize.
The Poetry Business are an independent press, and a writer development agency, based in Sheffield. Since 1986, they have run workshops, mentorships, competitions and more. The poet duo Peter and Ann Sansom, are the directors of the Poetry Business.
Kim Moore is an English poet from Leicester who lives and works in West Yorkshire. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2011, and her debut collection The Art of Falling won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 2017. Her second collection All the Men I Never Married was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2022.
Tom Branfoot is a poet and critic from Bradford, England. His pamphlet This Is Not an Epiphany earned him the 2022 Poetry Business New Poets Prize. Branfoot is currently the writer-in-residence at the Manchester Cathedral, and was awarded a Northern Debut Award for Poetry in 2024.
