John Burnside John Burnside is a significant presence in contemporary British poetry. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry and five works of fiction. Burnside has achieved wide critical acclaim, winning the Whitbread Poetry Award in 2000 for The Asylum Dance and winning the 2011 Forward Poetry and T. S. Eliot Prize for Black Cat Bone. He is a poet, short story writer and novelist and is a Professor at the University of St Andrews. His latest poetry collection is Still Life with Feeding Snake 2017 published by Cape.


Elizabeth Barton Elizabeth Barton is an old Mayfield student of Patsy Cornish. She went on to read English at Christ’s College, Cambridge, after which she worked as a teacher and freelance writer. She is a member of Mole Valley Poets. Her poems have been published in Agenda and will be appearing in Orbismagazine.


Louise C Callaghan Louise was born in 1948, and grew up in County Dublin. She is an old girl of the Holy Child Convent, Killiney. She currently lives in Dublin. The Puzzle-Heart was published by Salmon Poetry in 1999; Remember the Birds, Salmon, 2005 and In The Ninth House, Salmon, 2010. Her most recent book of poems, Dreampaths of a Runaway, Salmon, was published this year. Her work has been published regularly in Poetry Ireland Review and Agenda.


Sasha Dugdale Sasha Dugdale is a poet, translator and editor. She has published three collections of poetry, the most recent of which is Red House and a fourth, Joy, is forthcoming from Carcanet in November. Joy is a PBS Winter Choice and the collection is named after her long poem Joy which won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2016. She translates poetry and plays from Russian and has worked with theatres across the UK and US on new productions of contemporary Russian plays. She is currently working on translations of Maria Stepanova’s poems for publication in the UK. Sasha is editor of Modern Poetry in Translation and co-editor of the international anthology Centres of Cataclysm(Bloodaxe, 2016).


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