Vahni Capildeo FRSL is Writer in Residence at the University of York and Contributing Editor for PN Review. Their research focus on silence informs Like a Tree, Walking (Carcanet, forthcoming 2021). Recent poetry publications are Odyssey Calling (Sad Press, 2020), a bluegreen book of migrations; Light Site (Periplum Poetry, 2020), ‘expanded translations’ including sixteenth-century French love poems translated into calypso, and The Dusty Angel (Oystercatcher, 2021), a series of walks, nocturnes and lullabies in real-time and deep-time Port of Spain. Capildeo contributed a series of pandemic dispatches to the Poetry on the Move Festival 2020.

Lee Duggan is a poet based in the foothills of Snowdonia.  With a focus on marginalisation she explores reclaimed landscapes through innovative approaches to language and facilitates writing for wellbeing workshops. Her debut collection, Reference Points (Aquifer 2017) received positive reviews in Poetry Wales, Elliptical Movements, and Litter Magazine, along with review of her sequence Green (Oystercatcher 2019). Her work appeared in the important anthology of contemporary Welsh innovative poetry, The Edge of Necessary (Aquifer 2018) and most recently in Molly Bloom, Noon, Blackbox Manifold and Junction Box. She has forthcoming collections with Knives, Forks and Spoons and Contraband.

Zoë Skoulding's recent collections are The Celestial Set-Up (Oystercatcher 2020) and A Revolutionary Calendar (Shearsman 2020). Footnotes to Water (2019) was a PBS recommendation and won the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award in 2020. Her monograph Poetry & Listening: The Noise of Lyric (Liverpool University Press, 2020) discusses a range of contemporary poets including Peter Hughes and Vahni Capildeo. She is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University, and lives on Ynys Môn.

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