Bill Bulloch
William Bulloch is an artist, poet and photographer. He is currently studying towards the final year in a degree in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University. In a former life, William had a career as a creative designer for the NHS.
Andrew Taylor
Andrew Taylor is a Nottingham based poet, editor and critic. His debut collection of poetry, Radio Mast Horizon was published in 2013 by Shearsman Books. His latest pamphlet, Future Dust was published in 2015. He is currently working on his second full collection for Shearsman. Poems have appeared in Stride, Pages, The Morning Star and Poetry Wales amongst other places. He is an editor at erbacce, erbacce-Press and M58, a blogzine of other poetries. He is lecturer in Creative Writing and English at Nottingham Trent University. www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com
Iain Britton
Since 2008, Iain Britton has had five collections of poems published. Hauled Head First into a Leviathan, from Cinnamon Press, was nominated for Best First Collection category in the Forward Poetry Prize. Further UK books followed, with work included in the Shearcatcher Poetry Anthology published by Shearsman Books, 2012. A new collection of poems Photosynthesis was published by Kilmog Press in 2014.
John Seed
John Seed is the author of ten collections of verse, most recently Smoke Rising: London 1940-41 (Shearsman, 2015), and Some Poems, 2006-12 (Gratton Street Irregulars, 2014). His early poetry featured in the anthology A Various Art, from Carcanet in 1987. He has also written a lot of history, a book on Marx and essays on the poetry of Basil Bunting, George Oppen and Bill Griffiths.
Gordon Gibson
Gordon Gibson lives on the south-west coast of Scotland. He has been writing full-time for the last four years, after a career in higher education. His writing, both prose and poetry, has appeared in a number of print and on-line publications.
Chris McCabe
Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977. His latest collection Speculatrix was published in 2014 by Penned in the Margins. He has had three other collections of poetry published: The Hutton Inquiry, Zeppelins, and The Restructure. He was shortlisted for the 2014 Ted Hughes Award for the collaborative collection Pharmapoetica, written alongside artist Maria Vlotides. He currently works as the Poetry Librarian at the Poetry Library, London.
Robert Sheppard
Robert Sheppard is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Edge Hill University, where he also the Programme Leader for the Creative Writing MA. He edits Pages, a blogzine for innovative poetry and poetics. He has three new publications currently available, History or Sleep, Selected Poems from Shearsman, The Drop from Oystercatcher Press and Unfinish from Veer Books.
Sydney McNeill
Sydney McNeill is a feminist poet from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada who writes because she can't not. She does her best to capture the small moments that slip through everyone's fingertips all the time. Further work can be found at www.sydneymcneillwrites.com
Tom Jenks
Tom Jenks has published ten books of poetry, the most recent of which is Spruce (Blart Books). He was featured in the anthology The Best British Poetry 2015, published by Salt. He also co-organises ‘The Other Room’ reading series and website and administers the avant objects imprint zimZalla. He is a PhD student at Edge Hill University. More at http://zshboo.org
Luke Thurogood
Luke Thurogood is a poet, performance poet, editor, radio host, filmmaker and awful musician. He enjoys badminton and football. He has performed poetry at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool and has a publication forthcoming with Knives Forks and Spoons Press. He is editor of Black Market Re-View and Three and a half point 9.
Patricia Farrell
Patricia Farrell has collaborated with other writers, artists and musicians on a range of projects and publications: including the poets Robert Sheppard and Joanne Ashcroft, the jeweller and installation artist Jivan Astfalck, and the artist and dancer Jennifer Cobbing. She completed a PhD thesis in 2011 on poetic artifice in philosophical writing. Her collection, The Zechstein Sea, was published by Shearsman in 2013 and her latest publication is the visual text series A Space Completely Filled With Matter (Veer).
Sandeep Parmar
Sandeep Parmar was born in Nottingham and raised in Southern California. She received her PhD in English Literature from University College London in 2008, on the unpublished autobiographies of the modernist poet Mina Loy, and she holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She is Reviews Editor of The Wolf magazine, and edited The Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees for Carcanet Press (2011). Her critical book, Reading Mina Loy's Autobiographies, appeared from Bloomsbury in 2013. She teaches twentieth-century literature and creative writing at the University of Liverpool, and is currently editing the Collected Poems of Nancy Cunard as well as writing a biography of Hope Mirrlees.
Laura Tickle
Laura Tickle is a poet, short story writer and market trader. In 2016 she took part in Camarade’s ‘The Enemies Project- Contemporary Poetry in Collaboration’ and contributed a story to the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology. She is currently working on a collection that explores the relationship between language and urban space.
https://copperplatedtongues.wordpress.com
https://twitter.com/LauraPorphyria
Joanne Ashcroft
Joanne has a BA Creative Writing and English, Edge Hill University 2008 and an MA Creative Writing, Edge Hill University 2010. She was joint winner of the inaugural Rhiannon Evans Poetry Scholarship 2010. From Parts Becoming Whole (The Knives Forks Spoons Press, 2011) is her first collection of poetry. Joanne was winner of Poetry Wales Purple Moose Prize 2012. She lives in St. Helens.
Hilaire
Hilaire grew up in Melbourne but moved to London half a lifetime ago. Triptych Poets: Issue One (Blemish Books, Australia, 2010) features a selection of her poems. Her novel Hearts on Ice was published by Serpent's Tail in 2000. She was poet-in-residence at Thrive Battersea Herb Garden for this year’s Open Garden Squares weekend. She is currently working on a joint poetry collection with Joolz Sparkes, London Undercurrents, unearthing the voices of feisty women who have lived and worked in the capital over many centuries.
Blog: http://hilaireinlondon.wordpress.com
Tonya Eberhard
Tonya Eberhard recently graduated from the University of Missouri. She currently lives in Minnesota. Her work has appeared in Dirty Chai, Lingerpost, Yellow Chair Review, Open Minds Quarterly, and Sun & Sandstone, among others.
William Clunie
William Clunie is a writer living in Berlin. More of his work can be read at www.billclunierants.blogspot.com
Joseph Victor Milford
Joseph Victor Milford is a Professor of English and a Georgia writer. His first collection of poems, Cracked Altimeter, was published by BlazeVox Press in 2010. He is the host of The Joe Milford Poetry Show, a co-founder of BACKLASH PRESS, and he is also the editor of RASPUTIN: A Poetry Thread (a literary journal of poetry).
Steven Waling
Steven Waling is a long time Manchester resident, whose poems have appeared widely, most recently on Stride and the International Times websites, but also in Shearsman and forthcoming in Zarf, the Cambridge Poetry Review and Molly Bloom. His publications include Travelator (Salt) and Captured Yes (KFS Press).
William Bulloch is an artist, poet and photographer. He is currently studying towards the final year in a degree in Creative Writing at Edge Hill University. In a former life, William had a career as a creative designer for the NHS.
Andrew Taylor
Andrew Taylor is a Nottingham based poet, editor and critic. His debut collection of poetry, Radio Mast Horizon was published in 2013 by Shearsman Books. His latest pamphlet, Future Dust was published in 2015. He is currently working on his second full collection for Shearsman. Poems have appeared in Stride, Pages, The Morning Star and Poetry Wales amongst other places. He is an editor at erbacce, erbacce-Press and M58, a blogzine of other poetries. He is lecturer in Creative Writing and English at Nottingham Trent University. www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com
Iain Britton
Since 2008, Iain Britton has had five collections of poems published. Hauled Head First into a Leviathan, from Cinnamon Press, was nominated for Best First Collection category in the Forward Poetry Prize. Further UK books followed, with work included in the Shearcatcher Poetry Anthology published by Shearsman Books, 2012. A new collection of poems Photosynthesis was published by Kilmog Press in 2014.
John Seed
John Seed is the author of ten collections of verse, most recently Smoke Rising: London 1940-41 (Shearsman, 2015), and Some Poems, 2006-12 (Gratton Street Irregulars, 2014). His early poetry featured in the anthology A Various Art, from Carcanet in 1987. He has also written a lot of history, a book on Marx and essays on the poetry of Basil Bunting, George Oppen and Bill Griffiths.
Gordon Gibson
Gordon Gibson lives on the south-west coast of Scotland. He has been writing full-time for the last four years, after a career in higher education. His writing, both prose and poetry, has appeared in a number of print and on-line publications.
Chris McCabe
Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977. His latest collection Speculatrix was published in 2014 by Penned in the Margins. He has had three other collections of poetry published: The Hutton Inquiry, Zeppelins, and The Restructure. He was shortlisted for the 2014 Ted Hughes Award for the collaborative collection Pharmapoetica, written alongside artist Maria Vlotides. He currently works as the Poetry Librarian at the Poetry Library, London.
Robert Sheppard
Robert Sheppard is Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Edge Hill University, where he also the Programme Leader for the Creative Writing MA. He edits Pages, a blogzine for innovative poetry and poetics. He has three new publications currently available, History or Sleep, Selected Poems from Shearsman, The Drop from Oystercatcher Press and Unfinish from Veer Books.
Sydney McNeill
Sydney McNeill is a feminist poet from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada who writes because she can't not. She does her best to capture the small moments that slip through everyone's fingertips all the time. Further work can be found at www.sydneymcneillwrites.com
Tom Jenks
Tom Jenks has published ten books of poetry, the most recent of which is Spruce (Blart Books). He was featured in the anthology The Best British Poetry 2015, published by Salt. He also co-organises ‘The Other Room’ reading series and website and administers the avant objects imprint zimZalla. He is a PhD student at Edge Hill University. More at http://zshboo.org
Luke Thurogood
Luke Thurogood is a poet, performance poet, editor, radio host, filmmaker and awful musician. He enjoys badminton and football. He has performed poetry at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool and has a publication forthcoming with Knives Forks and Spoons Press. He is editor of Black Market Re-View and Three and a half point 9.
Patricia Farrell
Patricia Farrell has collaborated with other writers, artists and musicians on a range of projects and publications: including the poets Robert Sheppard and Joanne Ashcroft, the jeweller and installation artist Jivan Astfalck, and the artist and dancer Jennifer Cobbing. She completed a PhD thesis in 2011 on poetic artifice in philosophical writing. Her collection, The Zechstein Sea, was published by Shearsman in 2013 and her latest publication is the visual text series A Space Completely Filled With Matter (Veer).
Sandeep Parmar
Sandeep Parmar was born in Nottingham and raised in Southern California. She received her PhD in English Literature from University College London in 2008, on the unpublished autobiographies of the modernist poet Mina Loy, and she holds an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. She is Reviews Editor of The Wolf magazine, and edited The Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees for Carcanet Press (2011). Her critical book, Reading Mina Loy's Autobiographies, appeared from Bloomsbury in 2013. She teaches twentieth-century literature and creative writing at the University of Liverpool, and is currently editing the Collected Poems of Nancy Cunard as well as writing a biography of Hope Mirrlees.
Laura Tickle
Laura Tickle is a poet, short story writer and market trader. In 2016 she took part in Camarade’s ‘The Enemies Project- Contemporary Poetry in Collaboration’ and contributed a story to the National Flash Fiction Day Anthology. She is currently working on a collection that explores the relationship between language and urban space.
https://copperplatedtongues.wordpress.com
https://twitter.com/LauraPorphyria
Joanne Ashcroft
Joanne has a BA Creative Writing and English, Edge Hill University 2008 and an MA Creative Writing, Edge Hill University 2010. She was joint winner of the inaugural Rhiannon Evans Poetry Scholarship 2010. From Parts Becoming Whole (The Knives Forks Spoons Press, 2011) is her first collection of poetry. Joanne was winner of Poetry Wales Purple Moose Prize 2012. She lives in St. Helens.
Hilaire
Hilaire grew up in Melbourne but moved to London half a lifetime ago. Triptych Poets: Issue One (Blemish Books, Australia, 2010) features a selection of her poems. Her novel Hearts on Ice was published by Serpent's Tail in 2000. She was poet-in-residence at Thrive Battersea Herb Garden for this year’s Open Garden Squares weekend. She is currently working on a joint poetry collection with Joolz Sparkes, London Undercurrents, unearthing the voices of feisty women who have lived and worked in the capital over many centuries.
Blog: http://hilaireinlondon.wordpress.com
Tonya Eberhard
Tonya Eberhard recently graduated from the University of Missouri. She currently lives in Minnesota. Her work has appeared in Dirty Chai, Lingerpost, Yellow Chair Review, Open Minds Quarterly, and Sun & Sandstone, among others.
William Clunie
William Clunie is a writer living in Berlin. More of his work can be read at www.billclunierants.blogspot.com
Joseph Victor Milford
Joseph Victor Milford is a Professor of English and a Georgia writer. His first collection of poems, Cracked Altimeter, was published by BlazeVox Press in 2010. He is the host of The Joe Milford Poetry Show, a co-founder of BACKLASH PRESS, and he is also the editor of RASPUTIN: A Poetry Thread (a literary journal of poetry).
Steven Waling
Steven Waling is a long time Manchester resident, whose poems have appeared widely, most recently on Stride and the International Times websites, but also in Shearsman and forthcoming in Zarf, the Cambridge Poetry Review and Molly Bloom. His publications include Travelator (Salt) and Captured Yes (KFS Press).