Matthew Paul lives in Rotherham. His first collection The Evening Entertainment was published by Eyewear in 2017 and his second, The Last Corinthians, will be published by Crooked Spire Press in 2025. His two haiku collections were published by Snapshot Press. His poetry book reviews regularly appear in The Friday Poem and elsewhere, and he has contributed to the Guardian’s ‘Country Diary’ column.

Kathy Pimlott has three pamphlets with The Emma Press, After the Rites and Sandwiches (2024), Elastic Glue (2019) and Goose Fair Night (2016). Her collection the small manoeuvres was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2022. Born and brought up in Nottingham, she has lived in Covent Garden for nearly 50 years.

Peter Sansom was born in 1958 in Nottinghamshire. Carcanet published his first book in 1990. Among more recent titles are Selected Poems, Careful What You Wish For, which won him a Cholmondeley Award in 2016, and Lanyard (2022). With Ann Sansom, he is co-director of The Poetry Business in Sheffield and co-editor of The North and Smith Doorstop Books.

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