Liz Berry’s first book of poems, Black Country (Chatto 2014), described as a ‘sooty, soaring hymn to her native West Midlands’ (Guardian) was a PBS Recommendation, received a Somerset Maugham Award and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Award and Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2014. Her new pamphlet is The Republic of Motherhood (Chatto 2018) the title poem has won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2018.
Sophie Herxheimer is an artist and a poet. Her work has been shown at her local allotments and at Tate Modern, at The National Portrait Gallery and on a 48 metre hoarding along the seafront in Margate. She has held residencies for The Thames Festival, The National Maritime Museum, Museum of Liverpool, Transport for London, the Arvon Foundation and Winchester Poetry Festival amongst many others.
Kapka Kassabova is the author of Border (2017) which was shortlisted for multiple literary prizes and won the Saltire Book of the Year, the Edward Stanford Book of the Year, and the Highland Book Prize. She is also a poet, novelist, and the author of two other books of narrative non-fiction: Street Without a Name and Twelve Minutes of Love. Raised in Bulgaria, she now lives in the Highlands of Scotland.
Tariq Latif has been writing poetry for over 30 years. He has 3 full collections: Skimming the Soul, Ministers Garden and The Punjabi Weddings. His pamphlet Smithereens was short listed for the Callum MacDonald Prize. All are Arc publications. He is currently putting together his fourth collection provisionally titled Refugees.
Music by Archipelago, an award winning garage-jazz trio from Newcastle upon Tyne. Playing original, genre crossing material, their music fuses jazz, alt-rock and free improvisation to name a few, taking inspiration from musicians as diverse as Don Cherry, Morphine and Joni Mitchell.
