Sean Borodale works as an artist, writer, poet. His work combines print, theatre, writing, installation, performance, film, voice, sound, often expanding and testing a situated writing process. He studied and later taught at the Slade School of Fine Art in London (where he was also until recently Hon. Research Fellow in print and text). Previously, he worked at a foundry casting large-scale bronzes for artists. He has four collections of poetry published by Jonathan Cape. His first, Bee Journal (2012), was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and Costa Book Award. He was selected as a Granta New Poet in 2012 and a Poetry Book Society Next Generation Poet in 2014. Mighty Beast, a documentary poem for BBC Radio 3 about cattle markets and modern farming practices won the Radio Academy Gold Award for Best Feature or Documentary. His topographical poem Notes for an Atlas (Isinglass 2007), written whilst walking around London, was adapted and directed as a performance by Mark Rylance for London’s Southbank Festival Hall.

Sean Borodale is collaborating with Alun Hughes

Artist duo Emily Lucas and Nick Grellier’s (both laughing) Collaborative work is grounded in drawing practice and rich research that explores, discovers, invents, solves problems and cracks jokes.  We make artwork using low value, low fi materials and objects from around the home, including baby wipes, stencils, felt tip pens and printing stamps, in order to tackle the problem of emotion versus seriousness and other hierarchies both in the art world and wider society. Our remit is to generate new ways to talk, write and think about drawing and other art practices. The work is both playful and serious, celebrating difficulties and achievements.  Together, we have begun to develop our own manifesto for drawing as a way to embrace mistakes, test out new ideas and acknowledge non-binary viewpoints and grey areas, giving value to the overlooked.

(both laughing) collaborated on enjambments.

Hannah Copley’s poetry includes Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry) shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2024 and Speculum (Broken Sleep Books). She was winner of the 2019 Newcastle Poetry Prize for ‘Juice’ and winner of the 2018 YorkMix/York Literature Festival Poetry Prize for ‘Haworth, 1855’. Hannah is an Editor at Stand magazine and a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Westminster.

Hannah collaborated with Alycia Pirmohamed on Hertz, a DIRT publication.

Ella Duffy is the author of  Rootstalk (Hazel Press), New Hunger (The Poetry Business) and Greencombe (Hazel Press). Her work has appeared in The Poetry Review, The London Magazine, The Rialto, Ambit and Poetry Ireland Review, among others. She is the editor of botanical poetry anthology, Seeds & Roots (Hazel Press), and has been a guest editor for Butcher’s Dog and Magma. 

Ella is collaborating with Adam Horovitz.

Formerly an actor and BBC presenter, Rachel moved back to her native Norfolk coast 28 years ago to raise a family and to write.   In 2017 she graduated with distinction from the MA in Creative Writing: Poetry at UEA (University of East Anglia) where she also received the Brian Heiser Memorial Scholarship. 

Her poems have been published in Magma, Aesthetica, Under the Radar, Finished Creatures, The Alchemy Spoon, Ink Sweat & Tears, Lighthouse Journal, Fenland Poetry Journal, Tears in the Fence. She was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize 2017 and 2021.

Rachel collaborated with Elvire Roberts on Knee to Knee, shortlisted for the East Anglia Book Awards.

Lucy Holme is a PhD student at UCC. Her work features in PN Review, Poetry London, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Stinging Fly amongst others. She won the Cúirt New Writing Prize for Poetry 2024 and was a finalist for The Brotherton Prize, The Mairtín Crawford Award and the Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition. Her debut chapbook, Temporary Stasis, (Broken Sleep Books 2022) was shortlisted for The Patrick Kavanagh Award.

Lucy is collaborating with Vasiliki Albedo.

Adam Horovitz is a poet, performer and editor. He has published three collections of poetry, the most recent being Love and Other Fairy Tales, a memoir, A Thousand Laurie Lees, and an album of poetry and music with Josef Reeve, Little Metropolis. He co-presented The Thunder Mutters, a podcast celebrating John Clare, with fiddle player Becky Dellow during lockdown. He appeared on Cerys Matthews and Hidden Orchestra’s album We Come From the Sun in 2021. His next book, Slow Migrations, is due out from Indigo Dreams in September 2025.

Adam is collaborating with Ella Duffy.

Alun Hughes is a poet and non-fiction writer. In 2021, he was digital writer in residence with Dialect at the Cotswold Water Park and won third prize in the Troubadour International Poetry Competition. In 2022, he was shortlisted for the Laurie Lee Prize. His poetry pamphlet Down the Heavens, is published by Yew Tree Press. Somewhere Somewhere, an album of nine poems from the collection to original soundtracks, made with the band Lensmen, is available at lensmen.bandcamp.com. His work has been published by Ambient Receiver, Amplify Stroud, Steel Jackdaw and as Salmon Paths on Substack. He is currently working on his next collections, making poetry films and developing and organising community storytelling events and creative writing workshops. His writing is based in nature-based practice and indigenous perspectives.

Alun Hughes is collaborating with Sean Borodale.

Bill Jones lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire. He has illustrated books for Faber Music and his cartoons have appeared in Private Eye, Period Living and elsewhere.

Bill collaborated with Emma Kernahan and JLM Morton on Glos Mythos.

Ilse Pedler lives in Cumbria and works part time as a veterinary surgeon. Her first collection Auscultation was published in 2021 by Seren. She is the poet in residence at Sidmouth Folk festival and is one of the editors of Bending the Arc a magazine of Thrutopian writing.  

www.ilsepedler.com 

Ilse is collaborating with Alice Wilitts & Hilary Watson on Thrutopia.

Photo credit: Clare Park

Alycia Pirmohamed is a Canadian-born poet based in Scotland. In 2023, she won the Nan Shepherd Prize for her nonfiction debut A Beautiful and Vital Place, forthcoming with Canongate. Her poetry includes Another Way to Split Water (Berlinn) and most recently the collaboration this too is a glistening, (Bitter Melon). Alycia is the co-founder of the Scottish BPOC Writers Network and she currently teaches on the Creative Writing MSt at the University of Cambridge.

Alycia collaborated with Hannah Copley on Hertz, a publication from DIRT, our ecopoetry imprint.

Clare Pollard has published five collections of poetry with Bloodaxe, with her sixth - Lives of the Female Poets - forthcoming in 2025. She has also written a non-fiction title, Fierce Bad Rabbits: The Tales Behind Childrens’ Picture Books (Fig Tree), her first children’s novel, The Untameables (The Emma Press), and two adult novels, Delphi and The Modern Fairies (Fig Tree).

Clare collaborated with Freya Sacksen on Loops, published by DIRT, our ecopoetry imprint.

Elvire Roberts is a poet from the LGBTQ+ community, based in Nottingham, UK. She works as an interpreter between British Sign Language and English, with a background in other languages. Elvire writes from a physiological reimagining of emotion, often through the animal, vegetable and mineral. Her poems have appeared in publications including 14 Magazine, Dark Mountain, Finished Creatures, Magma, Reliquiae, The Rialto, Tentacular and the Candlestick Press anthology Ten Poems About Getting Older. 

Elvire collaborated with Rachel Goodman on Knee to Knee, shortlisted for the East Anglia Book Awards.

Freya Sacksen is a UK-based poet from Aotearoa New Zealand. Their work has been published in digital journals EnbyLife and SWAMP, as well as ARU anthology The Word Is…SMUT. Their poetry embraces storytelling, ecopoetics, liminality and queer identity. Their current favorite example of the Order Lepidoptera is Danaus plexippus.

Freya collaborated with Clare Pollard on Loops, from our DIRT ecopoetry imprint.

Hilary Watson lives in Cardiff and grew up in South Wales. She graduated from the University of Warwick with a BA and MA in Writing. She was a Jerwood/Arvon mentee. Her poetry has been published widely in magazines across the UK and internationally. She is an editor at the thrutopian writing magazine Bending The Arc.

Hilary is collaborating with Ilse Pedler and Alice Willitts on Thrutopia.

Alice Willitts is a poet and plantswoman from the Fens with a stubborn optimism about the future. She believes in putting hope into action: co-launching Bending The Arc, co-creating DIRT plantable poetry and writing. Kiss My Earth (Blue Diode) out now. www.alicewillittspoet.uk 

Alice collaborates widely, including with JLM Morton and with Ilse Pedler and Hilary Watson.

Vasiliki Albedo is the author of Fire in the Oubliette, joint winner in Live Canon's pamphlet competition, and Arcadia, winner of Poetry International’s tiny chapbook competition. Her work has appeared widely, most recently in Poetry Ireland Review, banshee and PERVERSE. She was shortlisted for a Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Written) 2024, and has won the Hammond House Literary Prize and The Poetry Society's Stanza competition.

Vasiliki is collaborating with Lucy Holme.