Polly Paulusma A song writer and performer, Polly is an old Mayfield student, formerly taught English by Patricia McCarthy. In 2003 Bjork’s label One Little Indian signed her up and catapulted her round the world for six years, supporting Bob Dylan, Jamie Cullum, Joseph Arthur, Coldplay and many others. In 2012 she set up her own label Wild Sound to release her third studio album, Leaves from the Family Tree; the label has now returned to One Little Indian and Polly is gearing up to release her fourth studio album in 2018.


Patricia McCarthy Patricia McCarthy is the editor of Agenda poetry journal. She won the National Poetry Competition 2013. Recent collections are: Rodin’s Shadow (Clutag Press/Agenda Editions in 2012). Horses between our Legs, 2014. Letters to Akhmatova, 2015. Rockabye, (Worple Press), and Shot Silks (Waterloo Press) are due in the next few months.


Timothy Adès


Timothy Adès is a rhyming translator-poet. His bilingual book Storysongs/Chantefables, with French animal poems by Robert Desnos and art by Cat Zaza, is published by Agenda Editions. How to be a Grandfather is his version of Victor Hugo's last book of poems: it includes many extras. Timothy’s new book Loving by Will contains all Shakespeare's 154 Sonnets and Timothy's versions not using letter E. His translation of the Collected works of Robert Desnos (Arc Publications) came out recently.


Josephine Balmer Josephine Balmer’s most recent collections are Letting Go: thirty mourning sonnets and two poems (Agenda Editions) and The Paths of Survival (Shearsman), both published in 2017. Previous collections include The Word for Sorrow (Salt) and Chasing Catullus: Poems, Translations and Transgressions (Bloodaxe). She has also translated Catullus, Classical Women Poets and Sappho (all Bloodaxe). Piecing Together the Fragments, her study of classical translation and contemporary poetry, was published by OUP in 2013. She writes on poetry and translation for publications such as the TLS, New Statesman and The Times, for which she sets the daily Word Watch and weekly Literary Quiz. She is an advisor to the poetry journal Agenda.


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