Until her retirement in 2017, Lucy Newlyn taught English at Oxford University, with a tutorial fellowship at St Edmund Hall (where she is now a Fellow Emerita.) As an academic, she has published widely on British Romanticism, her main specialisms being the Wordsworth Circle and the writings of Edward Thomas. As a poet, she has published six collections of poetry since 2001, after a late start, and her poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies. Her 2005 collection (Oxford Poets) was entitled Ginnel and focusses on her childhood in Headingley. She is also the author of a sixteen-year memoir about living with Bipolar, and an experimental novel about an online forum for those suffering from this condition. Recent publications include: The Craft of Poetry: A Primer in Verse (Yale University Press, 2021) and Quicksilver (Lapwing, 2022) See https://lucynewlyn.com for more information.
Rob Miles is from Devon, and he lives in Leeds. He is Fellow in Film Studies at the University of Leeds. His poetry has appeared widely in magazines and multiple anthologies, and he has won various competitions including the Philip Larkin Prize, judged by Don Paterson, the Resurgence International Ecopoetry Prize, judged by Imtiaz Dharker and Jo Shapcott, and the Poets & Players Prize, judged by Sinéad Morrissey. His collection, Dimmet, is published 2024 by Broken Sleep Books. Of Dimmet, Katharine Towers notes: ‘These are poems of great precision and delicacy’; Lucy Newlyn describes it as ‘[t]he best collection of contemporary poetry I have read in a long while’, and John Glenday writes: ‘When it’s done as well as this, there’s nowhere on earth poetry can’t go.’
James Nash is a local poet and creative writing tutor whose most recent book, Heart Stones, is his third collection of sonnets. See www.jamesnash.co.uk for more information.
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