Anna Robinson has written poems of all shapes and sizes, including a 3 part work called Finders of London, 2 parts of which have been published in Reactions 4 (pen & inc) and Entering the Tapestry (Enitharmon). Her first solo publication is Songs from the flats (Hearing Eye). This was selected by the Poetry Book  Society as their Pamphlet Choice in Winter 2005/6.  Anna is featured in Oxford Poets 2007 (Oxford/Carcanet).
Her first full collection, 'The Finders of London,' will be published by Enitharmon in 2010. 

Anna has had a number of poetry residencies, working with children, older people, the learning disabled and prisoners. She has performed and run workshops at a number of festivals including Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival and Poetry Street (Stoke Newington). She was poet in residence on Lower Marsh for the South Bank Centre's Trading Places project, part of Poetry International 2006. 

Ann Vaughan-Williams is writing a Memoir in Poetry and Prose, arising from her childhood in Uganda. At fourteen she went to Norfolk and then studied in London where she has stayed  through work, marriage, and children who are now adult. She started writing novels and then poetry to connect with loss of home and confrontation with colonial history. Her son's severe asthma gave her the habit of writing all night and dreaming or reading all day, in regular bouts interspersed with vitality.  Her psychiatric social work past, with subsequent creative writing and tutoring occupation has reached a confluence in her current 'reading, writing and discussion groups', exclusive to people with mental health struggles. She likes growing cacti for the surprises they give when rescued after neglect.

Her first collection was Warming the Stones. Her pamphlets include 'Sea Poems' and 'Venetian Journal.' Her poems and articles have appeared in many magazines and anthologies and she has read widely at readings. She has edited three poetry anthologies in and around LB Merton and has facilitated many poetry events for fifteen years. She has read in performances of Anglo-Saxon poetry mainly in translation. Ted Hughes wrote to her 'If only all readers were as sensitive to the movement of verse as you are. Or even a tenth as sensitive.' (See  Letters of Ted Hughes  ff  2007)

John Haynes is our Advisory Editor. John won the Costa Award for poetry 2006 and the  Troubadour Poetry prize (2007).  He's won prizes in the National Poetry Competition and the Arvon Competition, was a runner up in this years International Sonnet  Competition.   He's published three books of poetry (one under a Nigeria name), and books on African  poetry and on English language/style. He was born in Cornwall, brought up in the Black Country, and lived for eighteen years in Nigeria, now with Nigerian born wife and two kids in Cowplain, Hampshire, completing two further collections of poems,  one of which is the long poem 'You', sections of which had appeared in  Poetry Review, Agenda,  Stand,  Ambit and other magazines.

Linda Black studied Fine Art at Leeds Art College and etching at the Slade School. She ran Apollo Etching Studio in London and has exhibited widely. Her poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including this little stretch of life (Hearing Eye/The Poetry School 2006) and I am Twenty People! (Enitharmon, 2007). She was recipient of the 2004/5 Poetry School Scholarship and winner of the 2006 New Writing Ventures Award for Poetry. A pamphlet of her work, The beating of wings (Hearing Eye, 2006) was the PBS Pamphlet Choice for Spring 2007. She received an Arts Council Writer's Award in 2007 and her first collection of prose poems, Inventory,  was published by Shearsman Books in 2008. 

 

Lucy Hamilton is published in journals such as Agenda, Magma, Scintilla, Shearsman and Modern Poetry in Translation, and has been anthologised in Entering the Tapestry and I am twenty people! (both Enitharmon) and In the Company of Poets (Hearing Eye) amongst others. She was joint-recipient of The Poetry Award 2006/7. Lucy teaches international students in Ashford, Kent.

In her review of I am twenty people! Carol Rumens says:

'[LH] boldly translating the legend of the Muslim warrior-saint Lalla Maghnia into a series of sonnets, attains at times a grandly epic tone and retains the incantatory quality of her original prose text ...' (Poetry London, Autumn 2007).

Lucy's pamphlet is Sonnets for my Mother (Hearing Eye, 2009).