Londoner Richard Scott has won both Wasafiri New Writing Prize & 2016 Michael Marks Poetry Award. Soho (Faber, 2018) is his debut collection & he teaches at Faber Academy.
Rebecca Perry has worked in theatre in Slovenia & edits online journal Poems in Which. Her first collection Beauty/Beauty (Bloodaxe, 2015) won the 2017 Michael Murphy Memorial Prize.
Hannah Sullivan studied at Harvard, taught in California & is Assoc. Prof. of English at New College, Oxford. Her first collection Three Poems (Faber 2018) was awarded the TS Eliot Prize.
Freelance journalist Lisa Kelly is half-Danish & half-deaf. A Map Towards Fluency (Carcanet, 2019) follows pamphlets Bloodhound in 2012 & Philip Levine’s Good Ear.
Plus 20 autumnal odes — reflections on summer’s-end or winter’s coming-in, post-holiday blues, memories of back-to-school, odes to fallen leaves, toast-&-honey, nuts, apples, fireworks — especially written for this October celebration by Troubadour regulars including Digby Howard, Mark Huband, Oliver Comins, Nic Stringer, Tessa Anslow, Dino Mahoney, Karen Littleton, Rachel Donati, Alice Thurling, Mary Muir, Michael Harris, Diana Pooley, Bernadette Reed, Michelle Penn, Tim Richardson, Gillie Robic, Iain Whiteley, Lesley Sharpe, Alex Josephy, Jo Roach & Tim Waller.