Shoneyin, Lola
Lola Shoneyin is a Nigerian poet, novelist and publisher. She is the author of three poetry collections, ten children’s books and the novel The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives. Longlisted for the Orange Prize, it won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award. It was been widely translated and adapted for stage and screen. […]
Terry, Philip
Philip Terry was born in Belfast, and is a poet and translator. The Penguin Book of Oulipo, which he edited, was published in Penguin Modern Classics in 2020, and Carcanet published his edition of Jean-Luc Champerret’s The Lascaux Notebooks, the first ever anthology of Ice Age poetry, in 2022. His version of Dante’s Purgatorio, relocated […]
Liardet, Tim
Twice shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, for The World Before Snow (Carcanet) and The Blood Choir (Seren), Tim Liardet has produced eleven collections of poetry to date. He has also been longlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize, received several Poetry Book Society Recommendations, a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice, an Arts Council England Writer’s […]
Boix, Leo
Leo Boix is a bilingual Latinx poet from Argentina based in London. His second collection Southernmost: Sonnets (Chatto & Windus, 2025) was shortlisted for the Forward Prizes and named Book of the Year by major UK newspapers. His debut Ballad of a Happy Immigrant (2021) was a Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice. He edited […]
Allnutt, Gillian
Gillian Allnutt has published ten poetry collections, all but two with Bloodaxe Books. The latest, lode, came out in May 2025. How the Bicycle Shone: New & Selected Poems (2007) includes work from Nantucket and the Angel (1997) and Lintel (2001), both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. She has taught creative writing in universities, […]
McNish, Hollie
Hollie McNish is a bestselling poet and author based between Cambridge and Glasgow. She won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic memoir – Nobody Told Me. She has published four further collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum and Virgin, as well as her Sunday Times bestselling hybrid […]
Le Bas, Damian
Damian Le Bas’s first book The Stopping Places won the Somerset Maugham Award, an RSL Jerwood Award, and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year. Widely published as a journalist and poet, he has received a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship and an honorary Master of Education from the University of Chichester. Damian read Theology at the […]
Benson, Fiona
Fiona Benson is the author of four poetry collections: Bright Travellers, Vertigo & Ghost, Ephemeron and Midden Witch, and one poetry script Infamous Offspring in collaboration with Wim Vandekeybus / Ultima Vez. Her books have won the Forward Prize, the Seamus Heaney Prize, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and she is a Society […]
Allen-Paisant, Jason
Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican writer and award-winning poet, author of Self-Portrait as Othello, which won both the Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes in 2023, and of Thinking with Trees. His latest book, The Possibility of Tenderness, is a work of literary nonfiction. He holds a doctorate from Oxford and is Professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at […]
Makoha, Nick
Dr Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet and playwright based in London and founder of Obsidian Foundation. His new collection, The New Carthaginians, is published by Penguin. Winner of the 2021 Ivan Juritz Prize and the Poetry London Prize. In 2017, Nick’s debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity, was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for […]
Bryce, Colette
Colette Bryce is an Irish poet and editor. Her five poetry collections are published by Picador, including The Full Indian Rope Trick (Picador, 2004) and Self-Portrait in the Dark (2008). The Whole & Rain-domed Universe (2014), which draws on her experience of growing up in Derry during the Troubles, was shortlisted for the Costa and Forward prizes and received a […]
Bradman, Tony
Tony is an award-winning writer of children’s books. He has written poetry, picture books and stories for all ages, including historical fiction set in a wide range of periods – he was made a Fellow of the Historical Association in 2022. He has edited many anthologies, has been active in authors’ organisations – he was […]