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Poets

JUANA ADCOCK is a writer and translator working in English and Spanish. She was born in Mexico and has been living in Glasgow for seven years. She completed a masters in Creative Writing in 2009 at the University of Glasgow. Her work has been included in anthologies and literary magazines in Mexico, the UK, the USA, Germany and Sweden. Her first poetry collection, Manca, was published early 2014 in Mexico. Her website can be found at jennivora.com and her Twitter handle is @jennivora.

B. ANNE ADRIAENS currently lives and writes in Somerset, Britain. Her work often reflects her interest in alienation and all things weird and dark, as well as her concerns about pollution and the environment in general. She’s written several dystopian short (and not so short) pieces and is putting together a poetry collection exploring the many places where she’s lived. She attended the Poetry Summer School at the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast, in June 2017 and the following July, she was awarded the title of Frome Festival Poet Laureate. Her work has previously appeared in Helios Quarterly, B.A.D. (The Bees Are Dead) and Harpur Palate, as well as on several online literary platforms.

KHALOUD AL-MUTTALIBI is a poet and translator. She resides in the United Kingdom. Much of her work has been translated into various languages. Her poetry has been published in a vast array of worldwide literary magazines and journals, both in print and online. She has appeared in several books and anthologies. Her published works include Psalms under a London Sky, Under an Icy Sky, A Portrait of Uruk, and The Contemporary Iraqi Poetry Movement.

GARY ALLEN was born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim. He has published thirteen collections, most recently, Mexico, Agenda Editions, 2013. Widely published in international magazines, including Ambit, Australian Book Review, Chapman, Dark Horse, Edinburgh Review, Fiddlehead, Irish Pages, London Magazine, Malahat Review, Meanjin, Poetry Ireland, Poetry NZ, The Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Stand, The Threepenny Review, Westerly, and The Yellow Nib. A selection of his poems was published in the anthology, The New North, (Wake Forest University Press, North Carolina), and in the UK by Salt. A new novel, The Estate, is due out from the Canadian publisher CLP.

DAVINA ALLISON has recently completed a PhD in Text Linguistics. Her poems have been published in numerous literary and online journals in Australia, America, and the UK, including The Australian Poetry Journal, Poetry Scotland, The Lampeter Review, ABC Religion & Ethics, And Other Poems, Eureka Street, Ruminate, Dappled Things, Eremos, Altarwork, and Faith and Theology. 

KATE ASHTON was born in Beith and qualified as an RGN from the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh before spending the mid to late 1970s as a features editor on Nursing Times. She then lived in The Netherlands for many years, publishing full-length fiction and non-fiction and working as a  freelance editor and translator. In 2003 she returned to Scotland and now lives in Nairn. Since coming home, her poems have appeared in magazines including Shearsman, THE SHOp and Northwords Now, and a pamphlet, The Concourse of Virgins, came out from Lapwing Publications in 2012.   

ZOHAR ATKINS holds a doctorate in Theology from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. His poetry has been featured in PN Review, Blackbox Manifold, Haaretz, The Oxonian Review, Typo, Wave Composition, and elsewhere. New work is forthcoming in Carcanet’s New Poetries. A final year rabbinical student at the Jewish Theological Seminary, Atkins is a Wexner Graduate Fellow and a David Hartman Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.

COLIN BANCROFT is a poet living in the North Pennines. Currently, he is completing a PhD on the Eco-Poetics of Robert Frost at Chichester University, under the guidance of poet Hugh Dunkerley.

STUART A. BARNES was born and raised in Hobart, Tasmania, educated at Monash University, Victoria, and lives in Rockhampton, Queensland. His first poetry collection, Glasshouses (UQP 2016), won the Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Prize, was commended for the FAW Anne Elder Award, and was shortlisted for the ASAL Mary Gilmore Award. Stuart’s the outgoing poetry editor for Tincture Journal. stuartabarnes.wordpress.com  @StuartABarnes.

SENECA BASOALTO resides in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Her works include philosophical essays featured through SNHU, a collection of poems included in a Love Anthology released by Z Publishing, a book of love poems titled Captain & the Scientist, as well as poetry collections published through Words Dance, Poetry.com, Barrow Street, and The Moth. Currently she is a submission reader for Frontier Poetry. You can view more of her work at senecabasoalto.com

BRIAN BEATTY is the author of the poetry collections Borrowed Trouble, Dust and Stars: Miniatures (Cholla Needles Press, 2019 and 2018), Brazil, Indiana: A Folk Poem (Kelsay Books, 2017) and Coyotes I Couldn’t See (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016). His writing has appeared in numerous print and digital publications, including The American Journal of Poetry, The Bark, Conduit, CutBank, Dark Mountain, elimae, The Evergreen Review, Exquisite Corpse, Gulf Coast, Hobart, Hummingbird, Lake Country Journal, McSweeney’s, Midwestern Gothic, The Moth, Museum of Americana, NOON, Phoebe, Poetry City USA, The Quarterly, Seventeen, Southern Poetry Review and Two Hawks Quarterly, among others. 

RUSSELL BENNETTS is the founder and editor of Berfrois magazine (@Berfrois). He lives in Kentish Town.

SHERI BENNING‘s third collection of poetry, The Season’s Vagrant Light: New and Selected Poems, was published by Carcanet Press in 2015. She’s published two books in Canada: Thin Moon Psalm (Brick Books) and Earth After Rain (Thistledown Press). Her poems, essays and stories have appeared in numerous Canadian, British, and Irish anthologies and literary journals. She completed a PhD at the University of Glasgow and is currently a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Saskatchewan. 

WILLIAM BONAR was born in Greenock and grew up in the neighbouring shipbuilding town of Port Glasgow. He is a graduate of the universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde and he gained a distinction on the MLitt in Creative Writing at Glasgow University in 2008. He recently retired after working in education for 30 years and is now a full-time writer. He is a founder member of St Mungo’s Mirrorball, Glasgow’s network of poets and lovers of poetry, and was a participant on Mirrorball’s Clydebuilt mentoring scheme (2009-10) under the tutelage of Liz Lochhead. His sequence, Visiting Winter: A Johannesburg Quintet, originally published in Gutter 06, was chosen for the Scottish Poetry Library’s online anthology Best Scottish Poems of 2012 and he was shortlisted for a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2015. Offering won the James Kirkup Memorial Poetry Prize for 2014.

DANIEL BOSCH was awarded the first Boston Review Poetry Prize (1998) for four poems riffing on films starring Tom Hanks. His work has been published in journals such as Poetry, Slate, The TLS, Agni, Berfrois, The New Republic, The Huffington Post, and The Paris Review, and a collection, Crucible was published by Other Press in 2002. He is Senior Editor at Berfrois.

ALAN BRITT was invited, in 2015, to Ecuador by the Ecuadorian House of Culture Benjamín Carrión in Quito, Ecuador as part of the first cultural exchange of poets between Ecuador and the United States. During his visit, he participated in events all across the country including the international literary conference sponsored by La hermandad de las palabras 2015 in Babahoyo, Ecuador. In 2013 he served as judge for the The Bitter Oleander Press Library of Poetry Book Award. His interview at The Library of Congress for The Poet and the Poem aired on Pacifica Radio, January 2013. His latest books include Violin Smoke (Translated into Hungarian by Paul Sohar and published in Romania, 2015); Lost Among the Hours, 2015; Parabola Dreams (with Silvia Scheibli), 2013; and Alone with the Terrible Universe, 2011. He teaches English/Creative Writing at Towson University.

CARLY BROWN is originally from Austin, Texas, and is now a writer and PhD student based in Scotland. She is the author of a picture book, I Love St Andrews, and a poetry pamphlet, Grown Up Poetry Needs to Leave Me Alone. In 2013, she was Scotland’s National Champion of Slam Poetry. Her website is: carlyjbrown.com

KEVIN CAHILL was born in Cork City. He studied at University College Cork, and later worked with the European Commission. Recently he has been working as a reiki practitioner. His poems have appeared in many journals, including Poetry Ireland Review, Orbis, The SHOp, Edinburgh Review,Crannóg, Agenda, and Berkeley Poetry Review. He is currently seeking a publisher for his début collection titled Tsk.

DAVID CAMERON was born in Glasgow in 1966 and now lives near Belfast. All three of his books – The Bright Tethers: Poems 1988-2016, the story collection Rousseau Moon and the novella The Ghost of Alice Fields – have been among the Books of the Year in the Scottish press. His study, Samuel Beckett: The Middle and Later Years, is due to be published by Greenwich Exchange. In 2014, David received the Hennessy Literary Award for Poetry.

JIM CARRUTH was born in 1963 in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, and grew up on his family’s farm near Kilbarchan. He has had six well-received pamphlet collections of poetry since his first, Bovine Pastoral in 2004. He has won both the James Mccash poetry competition and McLellan poetry prize and was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2009. He has been involved in many poetry projects, including editing an anthology for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and having his words etched in stone as part of Andy Scott’s Kelpies sculpture. He was appointed Glasgow Poet Laureate in July 2014 in succession to Liz Lochhead and Edwin Morgan. He will be making his first full appearance in the role as he launches his new collection Prodigal (Mariscat, 2014). In many ways it is the award winning poet’s most personal collection to date, with moving elegies for his mother and grandmother. Read more at www.jimcarruth.co.uk

ELENI CAY is a Slovakian-born poet living in Manchester, UK. Her poems were published in two pamphlets –Colours of the Swan and Autumn Dedications-and featured in MK Calling 2013 & 2015, anthologies (e.g., Mother’s Milk); poetry magazines (e.g., Envoi, Atticus Review) and as the ‘best poetry videos on the web’ (Moving Poems).  Eleni is currently studying the MA Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her collection A butterfly trembling in the digital age is due from Parthian Books in summer 2017. Website: www.eleni-cay.com and Youtube Channel:  www.youtube.com/elenicay

LUCAS CHIB lives in New York. His poetry has recently appeared in Brittle Paper. He has poetry forthcoming FronteraLit Journal (Barcelona).

A. C. CLARKE is a poet living in Glasgow who has won a number of prizes over the years and been widely published in anthologies and magazines. She has collaborated with Sheila Templeton and Maggie Rabatski on poems in English, Scots and Gaelic, resulting in a pamphlet Owersettin published by Tapsalteerie in 2016. A second collaborative pamphlet will appear next year.  Her fifth full collection, A Troubling Woman (Oversteps Books) came out in 2017. She was one of four joint winners in the Cinnamon Press 2017 poetry pamphlet competition with War Baby, which was published in January 2018. She is currently working on a harebrained scheme to translate all of Paul Éluard’s poems (at least 1000) before she dies and on an ever-expanding series of poems about his first wife Gala and the surrealist circle.

AIDEN COLEMAN‘s two collections of poetry Avenues & Runways and Asymmetry were shortlisted for national awards in Australia, including the New South Wales Premier’s Kenneth Slessor Prize, the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards. His poetry has appeared in The Australian, Australian Book Review, Blackbox Manifold, Carolina Quarterly, Poetry Ireland Review, Virginia Quarterly Review and The Warwick Review. He teaches at the University of Adelaide and is a co-designer of the MOOC Shakespeare Matters for AdelaideX. With the assistance of an Australia Council grant Aidan is currently writing a biography of the Australian poet, John Forbes.

DAVID COOKE was born in the UK but his family comes from the West of Ireland. He won a Gregory Award in 1977. His retrospective collection, In the Distance, was published in 2011 by Night Publishing.  A new collection, Work Horses, was published by Ward Wood in 2012. His poems, translations and reviews have appeared widely in the UK, Ireland and beyond in journals such as Agenda, Ambit, The Bow Wow Shop, The Cortland Review, The Interpreter’s House, The Irish Press, The London Magazine, Magma, The Morning Star, New Walk,  The North, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Reader, The SHOp and Stand. He has two collections forthcoming: A Murmuration (Two Rivers Press, 2015) and After Hours (Cultured Llama Press 2017).

RICO CRAIG’s first poetry collection Bone Ink will be published in 2017 by Guillotine Press. Recent writing can be found in London Magazine, Cordite and Tincture. He has been shortlisted for the University of Canberra Poetry Prize and the Newcastle Poetry Prize. His poem ‘Angelo’ was awarded third prize in the Dorothy Porter prize by Meanjin. For additional work visit twitter.com/RicoCraig

RICK CRILLY is the author of The Tablecloth Trick (ECW Press/2007), described by Rikki Ducornet as “sweetly mysterious and clairvoyant”. His work has appeared in Litmus: the Neurological Issue, Zone Magazine, Molly Bloom, Blackbox Manifold, Taddle Creek and Gone Lawn 3.

SETH CROOK taught philosophy at various universities before moving to the Hebrides. He does not like cod philosophy in poetry, though he likes cod, poetry and philosophy. His poems have appeared in such places as Gutter, New Writing Scotland, Northwords Now, Poetry Scotland, Southlight, Causeway, Gladrag, The Poets’ Republic, Rialto, Magma and Envoi. One of his poems was selected as one of the Best Scottish Poems of 2014.

MARTYN CRUCEFIX has won numerous prizes including a major Eric Gregory award and a Hawthornden Fellowship. He has published 7 collections of poetry including Hurt (Enitharmon, 2010): “an exceptional ear…superbly intelligent…urgent, heartfelt, controlled and masterful.” (Kathryn Maris, Poetry London). His translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies (Enitharmon, 2006) was shortlisted for the Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation and hailed as “unlikely to be bettered for very many years” (Magma). His translation of Rilke’s The Sonnets to Orpheus appeared from Enitharmon in 2012. Recent original collections include The Time We Turned (Shearsman, 2014), A Hatfield Mass (Worple Press, 2014) and Daodejing – a new version in English will be published in 2016. Martyn’s website is martyncrucefix.com and he tweets @mcrucefix.

IRENE CUNNINGHAM  has had poems published In Between Hangovers, Picaroon, The Poetry Cafe, South Bank Poetry, I am not a Silent Poet, Former Cactus, Riggwelter, The Lake. Her website and blog can be found at http://ireneintheworld.wixsite.com/writerhttps://wolfatthewindowblog.wordpress.com

TONY D’ARPINO is an American poet living in England. His most recent book of poetry is Floating Harbour (Redcliffe Press). His recent nonfiction book, Trees of Bristol, explores the legacy of the ancient forests of the West Country, local tree lore, and the bio-diversity of the urban forest. His poetry has appeared in Agenda, Barrow Street, The Clearing, E-Ratio Magazine, The North, Raceme, and Raum.

BRUNO DIAZ was born in Zurich and brought up in the north of England. He studied English at King’s College London and Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. He writes poetry and prose, and blogs about travel, culture and cocktails: https://medium.com/@brunodiazwriter.

TERENCE DOOLEY‘s pamphlet, The Why of It, has just been published by The Argent Press, and his translation of Eduardo Moga’s Selected Poems came out in April with Shearsman Books. He is Penelope Fitzgerald’s literary executor and has edited her letters and essays and written introductions for several of her novels, most recently for the new Spanish edition of The Bookshop.

MICHAEL EGAN is poet based in Liverpool. A pamphlet, The River Swam, was published in 2005 and a second, Folklores, in 2010.  He has been published widely a number of anthologies (Adventures in Form, Best British Poetry, Forward Book of Poetry etc) as well as having a collection, Steak and Stations, published by Penned in the Margins (2010).

KEN EVANS gained a Distinction in his Poetry Master’s at Manchester University’s Centre for New Writing. The poems featured below will shortly appear in his debut pamphlet, ‘The Opposite of Defeat’ (Eyewear), publication in Autumn 2016. Ken’s work was longlisted in the UK Poetry Society’s National Competition; highly-commended in the Bridport  Prize and shortlisted in the Troubadour Competition, all in 2015. His draft debut collection was also shortlisted in both Bare Fiction’s awards and in the Poetry School/Nine Arches ‘Primers’ selection this autumn. Individual poems have featured in The Interpreter’s House, Obsessed with Pipework,  Envoi, and Ink. Sweat & Tears.

SALLY EVANS has published several books of poetry including The Bees (Diehard, 2008) and Poetic Adventures in Scotland (Diehard, 2014) both available at Glasgow’s new poetry bookshop Tell It Slant. She is the editor of the Poetry Scotland broadsheet and runs Kings Bookshop Callander with her husband.

GEORGE J. FARRAH has been published widely in journals across the U.S. and internationally. He is the author of The Low Pouring Stars, and the chapbook, Insomniac Plum, both from Ravenna Press. He is also an artist  regularly exhibiting his paintings nationally and received an MFA from Bard College NY.   He lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

MICHAEL FARRELL is from Bombala in New South Wales, and lives in Melbourne. His most recent book is Cocky’s Joy (Giramondo 2015); he also has several chapbooks and a book of poetics, Writing Australian Unsettlement (Palgrave Macmillan 2015). Michael has read his poetry at Glasgow University and the Caesura reading series in Edinburgh. He has collaborated with visual and performance artists, and co-wrote the Dick Diver single “Waste the Alphabet“.

EILEEN FARRELLY‘s poems have been published in From Glasgow to Saturn, Poetry Scotland’s Open Mouse, and included in two anthologies. As well as writing poetry she is also a songwriter and performing musician.

CHERYL FOLLON‘s latest collection, Santiago is published by Bloodaxe Books (2017). Her poems have appeared in The Herald, The Dark Horse, The Times Literary Supplement, and on BBC Radio 4 amongst other places. Her first two poetry collections are Dirty Looks (2010) and All Your Talk (2004) both published by Bloodaxe Books.

JANE FRANK’s first poetry chapbook Milky Way of Words was published in the Picaro Poets series with Ginninderra Press in 2016, and very excitingly, a new book — We are all Wildflowers — is forthcoming with Calanthe Press based on Tamborine Mountain in late 2020 to be launched at the Five Senses Festival.  Flotsam — a collaborative work about emigration/immigration (with Scottish poet Hugh McMillan) — is also in the pipeline with Flarestack for later in 2020.

GRAHAM FULTON‘s poems have been widely published in magazines, anthologies, online journals and newspapers in both Europe and the USA, including Ambit, The North, Edinburgh Review, Gutter, Poetry Book Society Anthology, Stand, Stride, Chapman, Raintown Review, Orbis, Envoi, Poetry Scotland, and Valve. Graham has published five critically acclaimed full-length collections, and over fifteen pamphlet collections, many of which combine poetry, photography and illustration. He also recently featured in Look Up Glasgow (Freight, 2014) and has worked on translations of Palestinian poetry for a new book called A Bird is Not a Stone due out in Summer 2014 also from Freight. He runs Controlled Explosion Press, an independent small press publisher in Scotland. For more details of Graham’s work, including future projects, please visit his website.

OWEN GALLAGHER was born of Irish parents in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. He now lives in London and was a Primary Teacher in Southall.  His previous publications are: Sat Guru Snowman, Peterloo Poets. Printed 2001 and reprinted 2004; Tea with the Taliban, Smokestack Books, 2012; and A Good Enough Love, Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2015, which was nominated for the T. S. Eliot award.

MAGI GIBSON has had five poetry collections published, including the popular Wild Women of a Certain Age. The National described her latest, Washing Hugh MacDiarmid’s Socks, as “A joy to read”. A new collection I Like Your Hat will be out from Luath in November 2020. She’s won several writing awards including the Scotland on Sunday/Women 2000 Poetry Prize, has held three Scottish Arts Council Writing Fellowships, has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, and Writer in Residence in Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art and Glasgow Women’s Library. Poems appear in many anthologies, including Modern Scottish Women Poets, Scottish Love Poems (both Canongate) and The Twentieth Century Book of Scottish Poetry (Edinburgh University Press). Currently she edits The Poets’ Republic. See magigibson.co.uk

KATY GIEBENHAIN edits the Poetry + Theology rubric for Seminary Ridge Review. She co-hosts a monthly reading series at the Ragged Edge Coffeehouse in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania where she now lives after a stint in Germany. Her creative writing MPhil is from University of South Wales (Glamorgan). Poems have appeared in The London Magazine, Appalachian Journal, Tokens for the Foundlings, Spiritus, Water-Stone Review, The Lumière Reader, Better Living through Beowulf and elsewhere.

GEORGI GILL a poet and PhD researcher with the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry at the University of Edinburgh, exploring the role of poetry in dialogues about multiple sclerosis. Her chief areas of critical interest are the work of Ciaran Carson and the im/possibility of language to construct and communicate identity. er poems have been widely published in, among others, Bare Fiction, Gutter, Under the Radar, Far Off Places, Dactyl, The Honest Ulsterman, Abridged and Coast to Coast to Coast. Her work has also been featured in various anthologies, including have also been featured in A New Manchester Alphabet (Manchester Metropolitan University) and the Saboteur-nominated Stairs and Whispers (Nine Arches) and #Me Too (Fair Acre Press). Since Summer 2018, Georgi is the editor of The Interpreter’s House magazine. 

CATHERINE GRAHAM is an award-winning Toronto-based writer. Her sixth poetry collection, The Celery Forest, was named a CBC Best Book of the Year, appears on the CBC Books Ultimate Canadian Poetry List and was a finalist for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry. Her debut novel Quarry won an Independent Publisher Book Awards gold medal for fiction, “The Very Best!” Book Awards for Best Fiction and was a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Book Award for Contemporary Fiction and the Fred Kerner Book Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto where she won an Excellence in Teaching Award and is a previous winner of the Toronto International Festival of Authors’ Poetry NOW competition. Aether: an out-of-body lyric will be published fall, 2020 with Wolsak and Wynn. Visit her at www.catherinegraham.com Follow her on Instagram and Twitter @catgrahampoet

STEPHANIE GREEN‘s pamphlet Flout was published by HappenStance, and launched at StAnza, 2015.  ‘Berlin Umbrella’ an ‘aural walk’  poetry/sound  collaboration with Sound Artiste, Sonja Heyer, will launch in Berlin in summer, 2018.  She lives in Edinburgh and is a Dance and Theatre reviewer. http://sites.google.com/site/stephgreen1/home

GEOFF GILBERT teaches comparative literature in the American University of Paris. He co-authored the chapbook Hold! West (Eyewear, 2016) with Alex Houen, and has published poems in various journals. He is also the author of Before Modernism Was (Palgrave, 2004), and writes about translation, modern literature, and cultures.

SHEILA HAMILTON‘s poems have been widely published. A full-length collection, The Spirit Vaults, was published in 2017 by Green Bottle Press. A new pamphlet, Lotus Moon, With Blossom, is published by 4Word.

CHRISTINE HAMM has a PhD in American Poetics, and is a former poetry editor for Ping*Pong. She won the MiPoesias First Annual Chapbook Competition with her manuscript, Children Having Trouble with Meat. Her poetry has been published in Orbis, Pebble Lake Review, Lodestar Quarterly, Poetry Midwest, Rattle, Dark Sky, and many others. She has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize, and she teaches English at CUNY. Echo Park, her third book of poems, came out from Blazevox in the fall of 2011. Christine was a runner-up to the Poet Laureate of Queens. 

LYDIA HARRIS‘ first pamphlet ‘Glad Not to be the Corpse’ was published in 2012 by Smiths Knoll. She holds a 2017 Book Trust New Writers’ Award for poetry and lives in the Orkney island of Westray.

W. N. HERBERT is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Newcastle University. His collections include Forked Tongue and the two-variant, two volume Omnesia.

ALEX HOUEN is author of the chapbook Rouge States (Oystercatcher, 2014) and co-author (with Geoff Gilbert) of the chapbook Hold! West (Eyewear, 2016). His poetry has appeared in various magazines, including Poetry London, PN Review, Stand, The Wolf, Cordite, Fortnightly Review, Molly Bloom, and Shearsman Magazine. Eyewear Press will publish his first full collection in 2017. He’s co-editor of the online poetry magazine Blackbox Manifold and teaches modern literature in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.

PAULA JENNINGS‘s poems are published in literary magazines, national newspapers and anthologies. Readings have included StAnza International Poetry Festival, Edinburgh Book Festival and Dundee Literary Festival. She facilitates poetry writing in many different settings and works with poets in groups and individually. In care homes and other venues, she uses creative communication to encourage self expression in people who have dementia. Her third collection, Under a Spell Place (HappenStance, 2015), is written in the voice of a woman with advanced Alzheimer’s.

TERENCE JOHN lives in Kirkcudbright, Galloway. He was short-listed for the Bridport Poetry Prize 2018 and his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in  Southlight, Orbis, The London Magazine,  Acumen, Glasgow Review Of Books,  The North,  The Poetry Review and Stand. He is currently preparing a selected edition of his poems for publication.

BRIAN JOHNSTONE is a poet, writer and performer whose work has appeared throughout the UK, the Americas, Australasia and Europe. He has published seven collections, most recently Dry Stone Work(Arc, 2014) and the pamphlet Juke Box Jeopardy (Red Squirrel Press, 2018). A regular performer both solo and withhis poetry & jazz group Trio Verso, his poems have been translated into over a dozen languages and are included in the UK Poetry Archive website. His memoir Double Exposure was published by Saraband in 2017. He is a founder and former Director of StAnza: Scotland’s International Poetry Festival. http://brianjohnstonepoet.co.uk

JILL JONES’ most recent books include Breaking the Days (Whitmore Press 2015), which won the Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize in 2014, The Beautiful Anxiety (Puncher & Wattmann 2014) which won the Victorian Premiers’ Literary Award for Poetry in 2015, and a chapbook, The Leaves Are My Sisters (Little Windows Press, 2016). Her work has featured in recent anthologies including The Poets’ Quest for God (Eyewear Publishing), Contemporary Australian Poetry (Puncher & Wattmann), Active Aesthetics: Contemporary Australian Poetry (Tuumba Press/Giramondo), and Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry (Hunter Publishers). In late 2014 she was poet-in-residence at Stockholm University. She is a member of the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide. www.jilljones.com.au

RUSSELL JONES is an Edinburgh-based writer and editor. He has published four collections of poetry, the most recent being The Green Dress Whose Girl is Sleeping (Freight Books, 2015). He is the deputy editor of Shoreline of Infinity, a science fiction magazine, and is the editor of Where Rockets Burn Through: Contemporary Science Fiction Poems from the UK (Penned in the Margins) and the forthcoming Umbrellas of Edinburgh: Poetry and Prose Inspired by Scotland’s Capital City (Freight Books). Russell also writes fiction and his first YA novel, The Talkers, was shortlisted for the $50,000 Half the World Global Literati Award. Russell has a PhD in Creative Writing from The University of Edinburgh. He enjoys White Russians, Twiglets and karaoke.

MARY KASIMOR has most recently been published in Big Bridge, Arsenic Lobster, Nerve Lantern,Posit, 3 AM, Touch the Donkey, Yew Journal, Otoliths, and The Missing Slate. Her two latest books are The Landfill Dancers (BlazeVox Books 2014) and Saint Pink (Moria Books 2015).

STEPHEN KEELER  is an award-winning poet who lives in Ullapool where he teaches creative writing. He is a regular reader of his poems at book events, festivals and  launches and has twice been shortlisted (2018, 2019) in the Winchester Poetry Prize. His chapbook ‘While You Were Away’ is published by Maquette Press and he has two collections awaiting publication.

HENRY KING studied at the University of Glasgow, and lectures on English literature at Malmö University, Sweden. His translations from French (with Andrew Rubens) have been published in Benjamin Fondane: Cinepoems and Others.”

DAVID KINLOCH is the author of five collections of poetry including Un Tour d’Ecosse (2001), In My Father’s House (2005) and Finger of a Frenchman (2011), all published by Carcanet. In the 1980s he co-founded and co-edited the poetry magazine, Verse. More recently he helped establish the Scottish Writers’ Centre. He is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

MARY CATHERINE KINNIBURGH is a doctoral student at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, where she studies spatiality in medieval literature and modern poetics, as well as digital methodologies for literary study. She has received fellowships at Columbia Libraries and Rare Book School, and works alongside the Lost & Found: CUNY Poetics Initiative publishing series for archival materials. When she is buried deep in the library, she writes poems, too, and also organizes a regular poetry workshop in New York City with friends and tequila. Her work is featured or forthcoming in Underwater New York, Hobart, and Blunderbuss. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and four rescue cats. Be in touch at @mckinniburgh.

RAUAN KLASSNIK is the author of Holy Land (2008), The Moon’s Jaw (2013) and Sky Rat (2014). He lives in Seattle.

SAM KOLINSKI (b. 1988) began writing in Glasgow. He is incalculably indebted to Sam Willetts’ first collection New Light for the Old Dark. Sam’s poems have appeared in numerous publications and he is currently developing material for his first pamphlet.

KIMBERLY KRUGE is a poet and translator based in Mexico. She is a lifelong poet; her first publication appeared in an anthology of children’s poetry, and she began to be awarded for her work as an adolescent. Her recent publications include poems in either English or Spanish in the following reviews: The Wisconsin Review, The Briar Cliff Review, Luvina, Precog and Two Thirds North. Her poem ‘The Rains’ was featured earlier this year as the ‘Poem of the Week’ at The Missouri Review. Her co-translations of baroque sonnets from Spanish can be found in the current issue of Riot of Perfume. She holds a B.A. in Creative Writing from Dartmouth College and an M.F.A. in Poetry from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. kimberlykruge.com. 

TARIQ LATIF has three poetry collections all published by Arc. His latest The Punjabi Weddings was published in 2007. His most recent publication is the pamphlet Smithereens which is shortlisted for the Callum MacDonald memorial prize and was published by Arc in 2015. Tariq lives in Argyll and loves rambling around the Highlands.

PAUL LAUGHLIN lives in Derry. A former Secretary of Derry Trades Union Council, he has published three collections with Lapwing Press, Belfast, most recently Conflict Studies: New and Selected Poems.  His work has appeared in a number of anthologies including Field Day Review, the Stony Thursday Book and Prairie Schooner.  His work has also been featured on a number of arts programmes on BBC radio and elsewhere.

DOROTHY LEHANE is the editor of Litmus magazine and author of Ephemeris (Nine Arches Press, 2014) and Places of Articulation (dancing girl press, 2014). She teaches Creative Writing and is a PhD candidate in Poetry: Text as Practice at the University of Kent. Her research explores perceptual and social experiences of neurological speech conditions; questions concerning the ethics of representational projects, vulnerable subjects, issues surrounding permission and problematized notions of authorship. Recent poems have been published in Snow 3 and Molly Bloom and she has work forthcoming in Tears in the Fence and Shearsman. 

ROBIN LEIPER is a psychotherapist living in Scotland and South Africa and trying to write in the spaces between them. He has been published here and there.

JENSON LEONARD is a Pittsburgh based poet and graduate of Duquesne University. His work has previously appeared in Uppagus, The SquawkBack, and Rune Literary Journal. He is currently biding his time on the internet before pursuing an MFA.

JOE LINKER attended El Camino College and California State University at Dominguez Hills, earning a BA in English, with a minor in 20th Century Thought and Expression, and an MA in English, while putting in six years in the ACNG (Army California National Guard). Over a decade of adjunct work bookends 25 years as a Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter in what Han-shan called the “red dust” of business. Joe was a Hawthorne Fellow at the Attic Institute in Portland, Oregon from April to August, 2012. He writes a blog called ‘The Coming of the Toads‘.

DAVID ROSS LINKLATER is a poet from the Highlands. He is currently studying an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. He is the recipient of a Dewar Arts Award and was shortlisted for a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust in 2015. His work has appeared in The Grind, The High Flight, RAUM and Ofi Press, amongst others. You can follow him on Twitter: @DavidRossLinkla.

PIPPA LITTLE is a Scot from St. Andrews who now lives in Northumberland with her dog, husband and youngest son. Overwintering came out from OxfordPoets/Carcanet in 2015 and was shortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre Award. She has been awarded an Eric Gregory, The Andrew Waterhouse Northern Promise Award, the Norman MacCaig Centenary Poetry Prize and was a joint winner of The James McCash Competition. She is also a reviewer and editor. In September 2015 she takes up a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at Newcastle University. She is presently working on her next collection, begun during her Hawthornden Fellowship. She co-founded and continues to be involved in Carte Blanche, a women’s writing group.

KATHERINE LOCKTON co-edits South Bank Poetry magazine. She runs regular poetry workshops for beginners and advanced poets. Her poetry has also been published in The Dark Horse, Northwords Now and Magma.  Twitter:@poetkat @poetbank

GERRY LOOSE has lived in England, Ireland, Spain, Morocco (briefly) and now Scotland. A slow-moving nomad, he is poet, writer and land artist who works primarily with subjects from the natural world, as well as the world of geo-politics. His poems and texts are as often found in built and natural settings as on the page. He also designs and makes gardens. His poetry is as likely to appear in these (and ungardened landscapes) as on the page. Among his most recent publications are Fault Line, Printed on Water, New and Selected Poems(Shearsman Books) and that person himself. His awards include a Creative Scotland Award, the Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, the Kooneen Säätiö Award and the Hermann Kesten Award. His latest collection, An Oakwoods Almanac (with Morven Gregor), is out with Shearsman Books (June 2015). www.gerryloose.com

CONLEY LOWRANCE began writing poetry after an aborted career in punk rock. His interest in lyrics and subculture literature eventually led him to the University of Virginia’s poetry writing program where he received his BA in 2012. His poems have appeared in publications put out by Tupelo Press, Columbia Journal, Underwater New York, and Counterexample Poetics, among others. Currently, he is exploring the intersection of Surrealist poetry and detective fiction while working at Columbia University’s Heyman Center for the Humanities and Society of Fellows. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and four cats. Follow him @ConleyLowrance.

TIM LOVE’s publications are a poetry pamphlet Moving Parts (HappenStance) and a story collection By all means (Nine Arches Press). He lives in Cambridge, UK. His poetry and prose have appeared in Stand, Rialto, Magma, Unthology, etc.

MATT MACDONALD is a page and performance poet who gigs frequently across the Central Belt and North East of England. He has been writing for nearly 6 years and has been published in several anthologies, magazines and collections. His debut pamphlet Who Are Your People? sold out its first printing in 4 months and the second edition is available now. Having performed in the Edinburgh Fringe for the last 4 years, Matt is looking to bring his second solo show to Edinburgh this August and will be competing in the Scottish National Poetry Slam in early 2015.

ROB A. MACKENZIE is from Glasgow and lives in Leith. His most recent collection is The Good News (Salt Publishing, 2013). His poems, reviews and articles have appeared in many publications and he is reviews editor for Magma Poetry magazine. With Louise Peterkin, he is co-editing an anthology of poems inspired by the novels of Muriel Spark, which will be published this autumn. He is currently midway through writing 21 poems, one for each chapter of the Book of Revelation. The first three chapters of this project are published by Adjacent Pineapple here

ROSIE MAPPLEBECK’s stories and poems come from her deep experience of living among animals and birds and of magic. She loves sharing traditional tales, her stories and poetry with audiences where families and friends share together. She hosts live literary events in Ayr and takes story walks round Ayrshire. She co-owns a boarding cattery, offering holistic and healing care for animals and has studied botany with David Bellamy, been a Special Constable, Veterinary Nurse and once ran a heavy metal disco. She is part of the Living Voices project which shares story, song and poetry with elders and those with dementia. She is presently creating a heritage trail for Ayr. You may also find her wild dancing; foraging plants for gastronomic delectation or caring for her bees. Her website can be found at www.rosiestories.com.

RICHIE MCCAFFERY (b. 1986) is the author of two pamphlets (Spinning Plates from HappenStance Press and the 2014 Callum Macdonald Memorial prize runner up, Ballast Flint). His recent collection Cairn is published by Nine Arches Press. He recently completed a PhD in Scottish Literature (The Scottish poets of World War Two) at The University of Glasgow. He is the editor of Finishing the Picture: The Collected Poems of Ian Abbot (Kennedy and Boyd, 2015) and is working on his third poetry pamphlet, due out in 2017. 

PETER MCCAREY was born in Paisley and brought up in Glasgow. His work is accessible on his Syllabary website. Collected Contraptions was published by Carcanet in 2011.

MARION MCCREADY lives in Argyll. Her poems have been published widely including in Poetry, Edinburgh Review, The Glasgow Herald and Be The First To Like This: New Scottish Poetry (Vagabond Voices, 2014). Her poetry pamphlet collection, Vintage Sea, was published by Calder Wood Press (2011). She won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2013 and won the Melita Hume Poetry Prize (2013). Her first full-length collection, Tree Language, was published by Eyewear Publishing (2014). She has a sequence of poems titled ‘The Birth Garden’ in Our Real Red Selves, a poetry anthology published by Vagabond Voices (2015).

SHARA MCCALLUM is the author of six books of poetry that have been published in the US & UK, including my most recent collection Madwoman, winner of the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry. This poem is part of No Ruined Stone, a book-length sequence that engages with a lesser-known story about Robert Burns: namely that Burns nearly migrated to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation. The book takes on the question—What would have happened had he gone?—and is voiced primarily by a fictive Burns and his fictional granddaughter. It weighs additional questions of history, including those of slavery, Abolition, the Enlightenment, and the entwining of Jamaica & Scotland.

MICHAEL MCGILL has had poetry published in New Walk, RAUM, Northwords Now, The Haiku Quarterly and in two anthologies by Ragged Raven Press. He has also had work included in the Hot Tub Astronaut e-zine, the Open Mouse website and in the latest Lies, Dreaming podcast. The two poems below are part of Notes for Castrato, an extended poem in five parts. Michael has appeared at Inky Fingers, Blind Poetics and Last Monday at Rio and has also appeared as part of The Accelerator and Big Word Performance Poetry in Edinburgh, at the CCA and Tron Theatre in Glasgow and the Soho Theatre in London. He has also appeared several times on The Verb on BBC Radio 3. Twitter: @MMcGill09

JAMES MCGONIGAL is a poet, editor and translator, formerly a school teacher and educationalist. His co-edited volume The Midnight Letterbox: Selected Correspondence of Edwin Morgan 1950–2010 has just been published by Carcanet Press. His last collection Cloud Pibroch (Mariscat Press, 2010) won the UK Michael Marks Poetry Pamphlet Award. The Camphill Wren (Red Squirrel Press, 2016) is his first full collection. For more on his work, please visit www.jamesmcgonigal.com

NIALL MCGRATH is from County Antrim and is a graduate of Edinburgh University. His most recent collections are Clay  and The Way It Is from Lapwing.

FRANK MCHUGH writes poetry in both Scots and English. He also writes songs and plays. His poetry has been published in Acumen Poetry, New Writing Scotland and The Runt. One of his poems was awarded ‘Highly Commended’ at the Imprint Writing awards 2016. His interest in poetry was ignited and fuelled by Philip Hobsbaum’s encouragement at the University of Glasgow to whom, like so many others, he owes a debt of gratitude. For a couple of decades, he read and stashed everything he wrote in a wicker box. Two years ago in a Gump-like moment, he felt inexplicably compelled to start writing in earnest and has just kept going. He is a teacher out of necessity, a poet out of compulsion and plays drums for fun. He lives on the beautiful Ayrshire Coast.

LUCAS MCMILLAN is a student in the MFA program at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota. His work has appeared in The Oklahoma Review, Forge and Gravel Literary Journal.

BRUCE MCRAE, a Canadian musician currently residing on Salt Spring Island BC, is a multiple Pushcart nominee with well over a thousand poems published internationally in magazines such as Poetry, Rattle and the North American Review. His books are The So-Called Sonnets (Silenced Press), An Unbecoming Fit Of Frenzy (Cawing Crow Press), Like As If”(Pskis Porch), and Hearsay (The Poet’s Haven).

DAVID MOFFAT is the author of ‘Walking doon the Gallowgate’ an illustrated memoir of a 1950’s Glasgow childhood. His poem ‘Arles’ was a Herald Scotland Poem of the Day.

RALPH MONDAY is Professor of English at Roane State Community College in Harriman, TN., and has published hundreds of poems in over 100 journals. A chapbook, All American Girl and Other Poems, was published in July 2014. A book Empty Houses and American Renditions was published May 2015 by Aldrich Press. A Kindle chapbook Narcissus the Sorcerer was published June 2015 by Odin Hill Press. An e-book, Bergman’s Island & Other Poems was published by Poetry Repairs in March of 2017, and a humanities text was published by Kendall/Hunt in 2018. Vol. 2 of the humanities text is expected in late 2019.

MAXINE ROSE MUNRO is a Shetlander adrift on the outskirts of Glasgow. She has been published widely in the UK, including Northwords Now; The Open Mouse; Ink, Sweat and Tears; Pushing Out the Boat; and OBSESSED WITH PIPEWORK. In addition, she is a frequent contributor to The New Shetlander, reputedly Scotland’s oldest literary magazine, the first (and for a long time the only) literary magazine she ever read. Most recently she was one of the 10 shortlisted for the SMHAF International Writers Award 2017. @MaxineRoseMunro 

CHRISTOPHER MULROONEY is the author of symphony (The Moon Publishing & Printing), flotilla (Ood Press), and viceroy (Kind of a Hurricane Press). 

ANDREW NEILSON was born in Edinburgh in 1975. His poems have recently appeared in The Dark Horse and he has reviewed for journals including The Poetry Review and Magma. Andrew has also published short stories in Short Fiction 8 and 10. He lives in London.

GEOFFREY NILSON is a writer, editor, critic, and musician whose poetry and essays have appeared in PRISM international, subTerrain, Lemon Hound, The Rusty Toque, and rip/torn. He has won the Bess Coyne Award for Creative Writing and has been shortlisted for The Malahat ReviewFar Horizons Award for Poetry. When not writing, he is an Editorial Assistant for Arc Poetry Magazine and the Web Editor for Pulp, a literature and visual art magazine of student work at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He lives in New Westminster, BC, Canada, with his daughter, Scarlett. Stay in touch @geoffreynilson

ALISTAIR NOON‘s publications include two collections from Nine Arches Press (The Kerosene Singing, 2015, and Earth Records, 2012, shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize), a collaboration with Giles Goodland (Surveryors’ Riddles, 2015, Sidekick Books), and chapbooks of poetry and translations from German and Russian from various small presses. He lives in Berlin. For more on Alistair’s work, see his page on Archive of the Now. 

FRANCIS O’HARE was born in Newry, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, in 1970. He has published two collections of poetry; Falling into An O [2007] and Somewhere Else [2011] with Lagan Press, Belfast. He published a collection in America, with Evening Street Press, Ohio, entitled Home and Other Elsewheres in 2011. He works as a teacher.

MHAIRI OWENS is a Scottish community worker with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of St Andrews. She tutors in Poetry with the University’s International Summer School. Mhairi writes in English and Scots and is Scots Languages Editor for The Scores. Her poems have appeared, or are pending, in anthologies and journals including Glasgow Review of Books, Obsessed with Pipework and The Rialto.

TOM PAINE’s poetry is upcoming or published in The Nation, Fence, Epiphany, The Common, Green Mountain Review, Hunger Mountain, Forklift, Tinderbox, Hotel Amerika, Tampa Review and elsewhere. A Boy’s Book of Nervous Breakdowns, a new collection of stories, was published in October by LSU. Stories have been published in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Boston Review, The New England Review and the award anthologies The O. Henry Awards, Best Stories from the South and twice in the Pushcart Prize. His first collection, Scar Vegas (Harcourt), was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Pen/Hemingway finalist. A graduate of Princeton and the Columbia MFA program, he is a professor in the MFA program at the University of New Hampshire.

TRACY PATRICK is a writer and performer who lives in Paisley. She is currently writer in residence at the Sunshine Recovery Café. Her latest poetry collection is Wild Eye Fire Eye. See www.tracypatrick.co.uk

DEREK PARKES is a poet from the Donny O’Rourke stable. He has been published in anthologies and online and is working on his first collection.

STUART A. PATERSON writes in English & his native Scots. He’s a past recipient of an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors and founder/editor of Spectrum poetry & prose review from 1989-97. His first full collection, ‘Saving Graces’ was published in 1997 before he moved to England to live and work for 14 years in social care. Returning to live in Galloway in 2012, he was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship from the Scottish Book Trust in 2014, during which time he collated and finished writing ‘Border Lines’, a 36-page collection of Galloway-themed poems published by Indigo Dreams in 2015. He’s currently the Scots Language Centre’s Virtual Poet-in-Residence. 2016 will see the publication of his first collection in Scots by Tapsalteerie Press, as well as a second full collection.

LOUISE PETERKIN is a poet living and working in Edinburgh. She has had poems featured in many publications including Magma, The Dark Horse, The North and New Writing Scotland. In 2016, Louise won a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust in the poetry category.

CLARE PHILLIPS retired from Social Work Education in 2016 and, as well as being a writer, is an active member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and of the Scottish Green Party. She is currently at work on her first pamphlet.

DAVID POLLARD was born under the bed in 1942 and he has been furniture salesman, accountant, TEFL teacher and university lecturer. He got his three degrees from the University of Sussex and has since taught at the universities of Sussex, Essex and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where he was a Lady David Scholar. He has published The Poetry of Keats: Language and Experience (Harvester Press and Barnes & Noble, 1984) which was his doctoral thesis, A KWIC Concordance to the Harvard Edition of Keats’ Letters (Geraldson Imprints, 1993), a novel, Nietzsche’s Footfalls (Geraldson Imprints, 2001), and four volumes of poetry, patricides (Waterloo Press, 2006), Risk of Skin (Waterloo Press, 2011), bedbound (Perdika Press, 2011) and Self-Portraits. He has also been published in other volumes and in academic journals and poetry magazines. His website is at: www.davidpollard.net.

LAUREN POPE  is pursuing a Creative Writing PhD at the University of Edinburgh where she organises summer courses in Creative Writing and British Literature. Her poetry has appeared in various print and online publications including Etchings, Gutter, Magma and The Stockholm Review of Literature. She has recently been selected as one of Eyewear Publishing’s Best New British and Irish Poets 2017.

RICHARD PRICE‘s collections include Lucky Day (2005), Rays (2009), and Small World (2012), all from Carcanet. He is Head of Contemporary British Collections at the British Library.

EVELINE PYE studied Statistics at Glasgow University, worked as an Operational Research Analyst in the Zambian Copper Industry from 1975 to 1983 and then taught mathematics at Glasgow Caledonian University for 22 years. She was selected for the Clydebuilt mentoring scheme in 2009 and mentored by Liz Lochhead. One of the poems from Smoke That Thunders is in the Bloodaxe anthology, Hallelujah for 50ft Women.

PRATHEESH RAMACHANDRAN was born in 1987 in Kerala,India. He is a bilingual poet and artist and has published three poetry collections in the Malayalam language. He continues to live and work in Kerala.

SAMUEL REILLY is a graduate of English Literature from Oxford University. He is currently based in Glasgow, where he works with contemporary art in a city-centre gallery, and continues to write poetry and folk music. While a student, he won the Mapleton-Bree Prize from St John’s College for a collection of six poems in 2013, and the Oxonian Review Short Story Competition, 2012. His poetry has previously been published by The Missing Slate.

STEWART SANDERSON was born in Glasgow in 1990. Twice shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award (2014; 2016), in 2015 he received an Eric Gregory Award. He was a 2016 Robert Louis Stevenson Fellow. His debut pamphlet, Fios, was published by Tapsalteerie in 2015. He is currently working on a first full-length collection of poems.

PAUL SCULLY is a Sydney-based poet and reviewer who has published two collections, An Existential Grammar in 2014 and Suture Lines in 2016.  An Existential Grammar was shortlisted for the Anne Elder Award.  He has also been shortlisted for several major prizes and his work has appeared in print and online journals in Australia and the USA.  This is his first publication in the UK.

TOBY SHARPE has two degrees from the University of Edinburgh. He misses living in Montréal, and currently calls London home. He is the co-founder of Project Myopia, a movement to diversify university curricula: www.projectmyopia.com.

LINDSEY SHIELDS WATERS moved between Scotland and England as a child and has lived in Washington DC, Bavaria and Leiden. She has worked as a solicitor for over 20 years and lives in Glasgow with her family. In 2016 she completed an MLitt in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow (with distinction) and was a Clydebuilt 10 mentee for 2016/17. Her poems are published in Lighthouse Literary Journal (Issues 12 and 14), Paisley Poems (Issue 1), Magma Poetry (Issue 69), RAUM Poetry (Issue 4) and forthcoming in Lighthouse Literary Journal (Issue 17) and the W.S. Graham centenary anthology: The Caught Habits of Language.

FIONA SHILLAN is an English teacher in Glasgow. She studied at the University of Strathclyde for both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, with a brief stint working in London running an international charity. Now north of the border once more, she is working on developing her reflexive poetic style.

KELLI SIMPSON is a poet living in Norman, Oklahoma.  Her poems have recently appeared in Riggwelter, and After the Pause. 

HOWARD SINGERMAN‘s late mother was a survivor of Auschwitz. His initial poems were about the Holocaust and his family; his poems now cover a wide variety of topics. He and his wife, with 2 other couples, created the website www.gatheringthevoices.com. It contains interviews with over 30 refugees from Nazi persecution who settled in Scotland, including Howard’s mother. They have also created a mobile exhibition about these refugees and take this to schools and provide talks.

LEELA SOMA was born in Madras, India and now lives in Glasgow. Her poems have been in The Blue Nib, Visual Verse, Southlight, Stormy Island, New Voices, Gutter and various other publications. Some of her work reflects her dual heritage of India and Scotland.

KATHRINE SOWERBY lives in Glasgow where she runs tell it slant, a poetry bookshop, and makes fourfold, a curated publication. Her poems and translations have most recently been published inGutter, New Writing Scotland, Under the Radar, Poetry Salzburg Review, A Bird is not a Stone and Aesthetica. Kathrine’s background is in visual art, she won a 2013 New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust, and has taken part in a Highlight Arts poetry translation project in Lahore, Pakistan.

JOCK STEIN is a piper and preacher from East Lothian, locked down but not yet up, and grateful to all those who deliver to the well-over-seventies. His most recent books (2019) are Swift and The Iolaire (poetry), and Jock’s Journey (memoir and, inevitably, more poetry), and he has just finished writing poems on all the psalms for a PhD at Glasgow University.

MICHAEL STEPHENSON‘s poems have appeared in a number of publications including New Writing Scotland, Gutter, The Herald and, most recently, 404 Ink’s The F Word. He lives in Bathgate.

MATTHEW STEWART works in the Spanish wine trade and lives between Extremadura and West Sussex. Following two pamphlets with HappenStance Press (both now sold out), his first full collection, The Knives of Villalejo, was published by Eyewear Books in 2017. He blogs at http://roguestrands.blogspot.com/

THOMAS STEWART is a writer. ’empire of dirt’, his debut poetry pamphlet, was published by Red Squirrel Press this year. His work has been featured at And Other Poems, Oh Comely, Litro, Ink, Sweat & Tears, The Stockholm Review, among others. He is based in Edinburgh where he works as an English language teacher. He can be found at @ThomasStewart08. 

EM STRANG has recently completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, and is now seeking a publisher for a first collection of poems, Habitude. She teaches Creative Writing at Dumfries prison and is tutoring on the MLitt in Environment, Culture & Communication at the University of Glasgow (Dumfries). She is the recipient of a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award 2014 and is poetry editor for the Dark Mountain Project.

LAURA TANSLEY’s writing has appeared in Butcher’s Dog, Cosmonaut’s Avenue, Gutter, Lighthouse, Litro, New Writing Scotland, The Real Story, The Rialto, Southword, Tears in the Fence and is forthcoming in Stand. She is also co-editor of the collection Writing Creative Non-Fiction: Determining the Form. She lives in Glasgow and is shy on Twitter @laura_tans.

KNOTBROOK TAYLOR is an Angus based poet and member of the Blue Salt Collective. His first chapbook ‘Beatitudes’ was published in 2007. The Museum of Scottish Lighthouses in Fraserburgh commissioned his second collection ‘Scottish Lighthouse Poems’ which was published in 2011 and explored the rich history and arcane knowledge related to lighthouses in Scotland.  It is available from the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses. In 2014 he won the Erbacce prize for his collection Ping-Pong In The Rain, a book which includes themes exploring sexuality, death and the film Bladerunner. He is currently working on new material and is interested in the idea of the muse, the psychoanalysis of dreams and the poem within the poem. www.knotbrook.co.uk

MARIE-THERESE TAYLOR was a librarian in Edinburgh, Fife and the North East of Scotland. She now lives in Glasgow. Her poems and short stories have appeared in Coastword’s Hotel , Glasgow Women’s Library’s Mixing the Colours, Federation of Writers Scotland’s Soundwaves, and online inSnare’s Nest and Nutshells and Nuggets, and are forthcoming in The Fat Damsel, Three Drops from A Cauldron and The Open Mouse.

RACHEL TENNANT is a landscape architect, poet and photographer with an award winning design practice based in the UK and Hong Kong. She aims to distil a physical and emotional response to a location that captures and renders the ‘spirit of a place’. Her work has been included in the Glasgow Anthology Tip Tap Flat, From Glasgow to Saturn, and the Gladrag. A poem is also featured on virtuoso percussionist Evelyn Glennie’s website.

A. K. THAYSEN is an artist, cartoonist, writer, and poet from Texas. She has a Bachelor’s in Painting and a second Bachelor’s in English Literature, graduating both summa cum laude & Phi Beta Kappa. She holds a Master’s degree in Creative Writing with Distinction from the University of Glasgow, where she was an editor of its literary magazine, From Glasgow to Saturn. She is currently a project manager for the charity Uncovered Voices, a series of creative writing workshops for survivors of sexual and domestic abuse in Glasgow. She has bicycled across four countries, traveled to 24, and lived in the US, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Scotland, and England. You can view her portfolio at: https://akthaysen.wordpress.com/.

LARRY D. THACKER’s poetry can be found in over eighty magazines and journals including The Still Journal, Poetry South, Mad River Review, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Mojave River Review, Mannequin Haus, Ghost City Press, Jazz Cigarette, and Appalachian Heritage. His books include Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia and the poetry books, Voice Hunting and Memory Train, as well as the forthcoming, Drifting in Awe. Visit his website at: www.larrydthacker.com

KATE TOUGH‘s novel, Head for the Edge, Keep Walking (Cargo/Freight) has five stars on Amazon. She’s had many poems and visual poems published in journals and exhibitions and held two literature residencies (Cove Park, 2014 and Vermont Studio Centre, 2015). A recipient of two Creative Scotland funding awards (2013 poetry, 2009 fiction) Kate also teaches writing and chairs festival events. “Exciting new voice in Scottish literature. Keep an eye out for this one.” Kevin MacNeil. www.katetough.com

NATHANAEL URIE is a writer and photographer from Lincoln, Nebraska. A recent poem, “The Slob Genius”, appeared in April during National Poetry Month, in the small press print anthology, Pennsylvania Bards Northeast Poetry Review (Local Gems Press, Long Island). Urie has published previously with Glasgow Review of Books.

RUTH VALENTINE has published three full-length collections and six shorter; the latest are Downpour (Smokestack 2015), Rubaiyat for the Martyrs of Two Wars (Hercules 2017) and A Grenfell Alphabet (self-published in aid of the Grenfell fund, 2017).  There’s also a novel, The Jeweller’s Skin (Cybermouse 2013) and various non-fiction. She lives in Tottenham & spend a lot of time campaigning against May’s hostile environment.

RYAN VANCE is a writer and editor based in Glasgow, with work published in New Writing Scotland, Gutter Magazine, and The Dark Mountain. Between 2010 and 2016 he created and edited The Queen’s Head, a speculative fiction magazine, has also edited fiction for www.theislandreview.com, and currently edits reviews for www.guttermag.co.uk. In 2017 he created Queer Words Project Scotland, a mentoring scheme for Scottish writers where queerness isn’t a hurdle to clear, but the qualifying factor. www.ryanvance.co.uk / @rjjvance

ROSE VAN SON is a Western Australian poet and has been published in Westerly, Cordite, Australian Poetry Journal, Rabbit, Blood Orange Review (USA) , Grieve and more. She has won prizes in the Tom Collins, Ethel Webb Bundell and shortlisted in the Grieve and Henry Kendall Poetry Awards. Her collections include Sandfire (an anthology with two other poets); Three in the Campagna and Three Owls and a Crescent Moon (Haiku). In 2015 she was guest poet at the Perth Poetry Festival, and Guest Poet at the New Norcia Writers’ Festival in 2018. She has recently completed a new manuscript: Cloak of Letters. She loves language and where it can take her.

SEAN WAI KEUNG is a poet and performer. He studied at the Universities of Roehampton and East Anglia and now resides near Queen’s Park, Glasgow. His work has been published in Lunar Poetry and Suburban Review amongst others, and he received the 2013 ‘Best Debut Performance’ Farrago Zoo Award as well as the 2015 ‘Funniest Poem’ CafeWriters Prize. His debut pamphlet won the 2016 Rialto Open Pamphlet Competition and will be published later this year. Follow him on Twitter @SeanWaiKeung or via jellyfisharepoemstoo.tumblr.com

RK WALLACE lives in Paisley. He has recently co-edited a local anthology, and he also co-runs a monthly open mic literary event; the facebook group for this is “Nights at the Round Table.” 

JAMES WALTON is an Australian poet published in newspapers, and many journals, and anthologies. Shortlisted twice for the ACU National Literature Prize, a double prize-winner in the MPU International Poetry Prize, and Specially Commended in The Welsh Poetry Competition – his collection The Leviathan’s Apprentice was published in 2015.  He has been a Librarian, a cattle breeder, a farmer, and on the other side of his working life an elected public sector union official. He lives in an isolated community of dairy farmers in the Strzelecki Mountains in far South Gippsland.

ALI WHITELOCK is a Scottish poet and writer living on the south coast of Sydney with her French chain-smoking husband. Her debut poetry collection, ‘and my heart crumples like a coke can’ has just been released by Wakefield Press, Adelaide and her memoir, Poking seaweed with a stick and running away from the smell was launched to critical acclaim in Australia and the UK in 2010. Her poems have appeared in The Moth Magazine, The American Journal of Poetry, Gutter Magazine, NorthWords Now, The Poets’ Republic, The Red Room Company, Beautiful Losers Magazine, Backstory Journal, Other Terrain Journal, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Canberra Times, Bareknuckle Poet and upcoming in the The Pittsburgh Quarterly Magazine. She is currently working on her second poetry collection and second memoir.

ROSS WILSON has previously appeared in Edinburgh Review, Horizon Review, Anon, Gutter, Agenda Broadsheet, Northwords Now and many other magazines, with poems forthcoming in Poetry Salzburg Review this autumn. A poem, Anithir Season, has recently been adapted into a filmpoem by artist Alastair Cook.

ALEX WYLIE is a poet and critic who lives in Belfast. He has published poetry in PN Review, The Financial Times, New Poetries V (Carcanet), Stand, Agenda, and Poetry Proper, and is working on his first collection. His next critical publication is an article on Geoffrey Hill in the OUP journal English, and has work on other poets appearing in the near future.