Biographies & further information
Jacqueline Saphra
Jacqueline reads In the waiting room with Leonard Cohen by Tony Hoagland. Her most recent collection is ‘One Hundred Lockdown Sonnets’ from Nine Arches Press https://ninearchespress.com/shop.html#!/One-Hundred-Lockdown-Sonnets-paperback-Jacqueline-Saphra/p/283235992/category=0
L Kiew
L Kiew reads english by Yaya Yao, from flesh, tongue (Mawenzi House) https://www.mawenzihouse.com/product/flesh-tongue/ and her pamphlet The Unquiet was published by Offord Road Books (2019). She’s working on her first collection www.lhhkiew.co.uk
Caleb Parkin
Caleb reads Here the diminishing miles by Kei Miller, from in nearby bushes (Carcanet) https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784108458 Caleb is a day-glo queero techno eco poet, tutor & facilitator and Bristol City Poet 2020 - 22. His latest pamphlet is Wasted Rainbow: https://tall-lighthouse.co.uk/caleb-parkin/ You can find him at www.couldbethemoon.co.uk and on Twitter @CalebParkin
Tamsin Hopkins
Tamsin reads To be explicit from In These Days of Prohibition by Caroline Bird (Carcanet) https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781784104788 She is studying for an MA at Royal Holloway and her pamphlet Inside the Smile is published by Cinnamon Press. Tamsin won the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2020 for poetry www.Tamsinhopkinswriter.com @THopkinsPoet
Tamar Yoseloff
Tamar reads When you go away from The Lice by WS Merwin (Copper Canyon Press). Her sixth collection is The Black Place (Seren, 2019). She’s a lecturer on the Poetry School / Newcastle University MA in Writing Poetry. Find out more at www.tamaryoseloff.com / and at www.herculeseditions.com.
Martyn Crucefix
Martyn reads The old trees on the hill from The Shadow of Sirius by WS Merwin (Bloodaxe Books) https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ He has just won the SoA 2020 Schlegel-Tieck German translation prize for Peter Huchel's book, These Numbered Days https://www.shearsman.com/store/Crucefix-Martyn-c28271672 Find his blog at https://martyncrucefix.com/
April Yee
April reads The guest Ellen at the supper for street people by David Ferry (The University of Chicago Press)
https://press.uchicago.edu/index.html Her recent writing is in Electric Literature, Lunch Ticket, and the Ploughshares blog. She tweets @aprilyee
Rishi Dastidar
Rishi reads Soulcraft by John McCullough from Reckless paper birds (Penned in the Margins) http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/ His latest book Saffron Jack is published by Nine Arches Press https://ninearchespress.com/publications/poetry-collections/saffron-jack.html Twitter: @Betarish
Kathryn Maris
Kathryn reads On Highgate Hill by Kate Bingham, from Infragreen (Seren Books) https://www.serenbooks.com/ Her latest collection of poems is The House With Only an Attic And A Basement (Penguin, 2018) https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/132289/kathryn-maris.html
Fiona Larkin
Fiona reads Listening for lost people by Denise Riley from Say Something Back (Picador) https://www.panmacmillan.com/picador Vital Capacity will be published by Broken Sleep Books in 2022
Michelle Penn
Michelle reads Dear B by Jennifer Militello from A Camouflage of Specimens & Garments (Tupelo Press) https://www.tupelopress.org/product/camouflage-specimens-garments-jennifer-militello/ Her debut pamphlet, Self-portrait as a diviner, failing, won the 2018 Paper Swans Prize
Nic Stringer
Nic reads an extract from The Glass Essay by Anne Carson from Glass, Irony & God (New Directions Books) https://www.ndbooks.com Hemispheres will be published by Guillemot Press in 2021