Jane Holland
Jane's latest poetry collection, Boudicca & Co, is available from Salt Publishing. She has a personal blog at Raw Light, and details her adventures as Warwick Poet Laureate at Warwick Laureate. You can hear her read her work at Jane Holland Live.
Praise for Boudicca & Co:
Angela Topping, Stride Magazine, April 2007
Charlotte Runcie
Charlotte is a poet and co-editor of Pomegranate, the poetry ezine for writers under 30. She is 18 years old and has won several awards for young writers, including the Foyle Young Poets of the Year award in 2006, and first prize in the Christopher Tower Poetry Competition 2007. Her first pamphlet of poems is due to be published by tall-lighthouse in summer 2009, and in the meantime she is attending poetry events left right and centre, splitting her time between London and Edinburgh.
Nina Davies
Matt Merritt
Matt is a poet and journalist, whose debut collection, Troy Town, was published by Arrowhead Press in March 2008. A chapbook, Making The Most Of The Light, was published in 2005 by HappenStance Press. He is 38 years old, and was the winner of the 2004 Plough Poetry Prize. He lives near Leicester, and blogs on poetry at Polyolbion.
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