Notes on Contributors

Chloë Ashby is an associate editor at Monocle and a freelance arts writer based in London. Maggie Butt’s fifth poetry collection, Degrees of Twilight, was published by The London Magazine Editions in July 2015. Her previous collections were Lipstick, petite, Ally Pally Prison Camp, Sancti Clandestini – Undercover Saints. Maggie is an ex-journalist and BBC TV producer, now Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Middlesex University, and Royal Literary Fund Fellow in Kent. http://www.maggiebutt.co.uk Daisy Dunn is a writer, classicist and cultural critic. Her new book, In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny, has recently been published by HarperCollins, and will be released by Norton in the US in December. Her anthology of stories, Of Gods and Men, will be published on 8 August and her Ladybird Expert book on Homer on 5 September. Andrew Gimson is the author of Boris: The Adventures of Boris Johnson, and of Gimson’s Kings & Queens: Brief Lives of the Monarchs since 1066 and Gimson’s Prime Ministers: Brief Lives from Walpole to May. He is at work on a book about American presidents, and is a contributor to ConservativeHome. Robert Hamberger has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship and featured on the Guardian Poem of the Week website. His work has appeared in British, American and Japanese anthologies and The Observer, New Statesman, The Spectator, The Poetry Review and Gay Times. He has published six pamphlets and three collections, with his fourth collection Blue Wallpaper forthcoming from Waterloo. Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist and freelance art critic. The Poetry Society’s only ever official Public Art Poet, she has published three collections of poetry: Everything Begins with the Skin (Enitharmon), Ghost Station and The Forgetting and Remembering of Air (Salt), a book of short stories, Rothko’s Red (Salt) and two novels, Depth of Field (Dewi Lewis) and Girl in White (Cinnamon Press). Sue Hubbard’s latest novel Rainsongs was published by Duckworth and Overlook Press NY. Art critic for many years on The Independent and The New Statesman, her Adventures in Art, a compendium of essays on art, is published by Other Criteria. She was recently invited to record her poems for the National Poetry Archive. com. www.suehubbard. Jennifer Johnson lives in London. Since completing the MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, she has been writing both fiction and non-fiction. Fred Johnston was born in 1951 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He has published previously over the years in the London Magazine; his newest collection of poems is Rogue States, published by Salmon Poetry (2019). Recent poems have appeared in The New Statesman and The Spectator and a poem appeared in The Guardian’s ‘Poem of The Week’ column. He lives in Galway, Ireland. Angela Kirby grew up in rural Lancashire, but now lives in London. The author of five books on cooking, gardening and related subjects, her poems are widely published and broadcast. Much of her work has been translated into Romanian. In 1996 and 2001 she was the B.B.C.’s Wildlife Poet of the Year. Shoestring Press published her four collections: Mr. Irresistible, 2005, Dirty Work, 2008, A Scent of Winter, 2013, and The Days After Always, New and Selected Poems, 2015. Her fifth collection, Look Left, Look Right came out in April. Bernadette McCarthy’s chapbook Bog Arabic, which came second in last year’s Fool for Poetry competition, was published by Southword Editions (2018). Her poetry has also appeared in journals including Agenda, Crannóg, The Penny Dreadful, Poetry International, and Poetry Ireland Review. She lives in Cork, Ireland, and works as an archaeologist. Jonathan McAloon is an arts writer and book critic living in London. He has written for the BBC, Telegraph, Financial Times, i-D, Spectator and the TLS, among others. Niall McDevitt is the author of three collections of poetry, b/w (Waterloo Press, 2010), Porterloo (International Times, 2013) and Firing Slits, Jerusalem Colportage (New River Press, 2016). He is also known for his psychogeographical, psychohistorical walks such as The William Blake Walk, An Arthur Rimbaud Drift, A Chaucer London Pilgrimage, The Kensington

Modernists, and many others. As art-activist he has campaigned to save the Rimbaud-Verlaine house in Mornington Crescent, and against overdevelopment of sites near Blake’s burial ground in Bunhill Fields. In 2016, he performed his poetry in Iraq at the Babylon Festival. He blogs at poetopography.wordpress.com Jeffrey Meyers, FRSL, has had thirty-three books translated into fourteen languages and seven alphabets, and published on six continents. He’s recently published Robert Lowell in Love and The Mystery of the Real: Correspondence with Alex Colville in 2016. Resurrections: Authors, Heroes—and a Spy was published in 2018. Konrad Muller served as an Australian diplomat in Cairo and Tel Aviv. He now lives in Hobart and is finishing a novel about the Danish revolutionary and British spy, Jorgen Jorgensen, who ended his days as a convict-commander in Tasmania’s notorious Black War. Penny Newell’s poems or articles have appeared in The TLS, Lambda Literary, Magma, Hobart, Cordite 88:TRANSQUEER, The Portland Review (Pushcart Prize 2019 nominated), 3:AM, The Southampton Review, The Cardiff Review, and The Emma Press Anthology of Love (Emma Press), amongst others. She has worked as a writer for the British Red Cross, and her major writing commissions and fellowships include Utopia 2016 Festival, Lakes Ignite 2018 and Poetry Fellow of the Paris American Academy. She has a PhD from King’s College London and now lives in Leeds in the UK. Shiromi Pinto’s debut, Trussed, was published by Serpent’s Tail in 2006. She has written short stories for BBC Radio 4, the Victoria & Albert Museum and opendemocracy.net. Born in London and raised in Montreal, she works full-time at Amnesty International in London. Katherine Robinson’s poetry has appeared in Poetry Wales, Poetry Ireland, The Hudson Review, Poetry Northwest, and elsewhere. Her essays and fiction have appeared in The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. She holds an M.F.A. in poetry from Johns Hopkins University and is a Ph.D. candidate at Cambridge University where she is researching the influence of early Welsh literature on Ted Hughes’s poetry and criticism. Genevieve Sartor is a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin. She has recent or forthcoming publications in the University of Toronto Quarterly, the Journal of Modern Literature, Deleuze Studies and The Irish Times. Ana Seferovic is a Belgrade-born poet and writer. She is interested in the relationship between a system and an individual, especially fascinated by outcasts, but also an outcast in each and every of us, because an outcast is where either system or an individual (or both) are breaking. She was a co-author of radio show and art platform PornoPop, examining sex and body as a battlefield of politics, art, literature and culture in general. She has published four poetry collections and she is a co-author of two plays and two poetry books. Daniel Swift teaches at the New College of the Humanities. His first book, Bomber County, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Guardian First Book award, and his essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the New Statesman, and Harper’s. Hugo Williams is the author of more than a dozen collections of poetry, including West End Final (2009), Collected Poems (2002), Billy’s Rain (1999), which won the T.S. Eliot Prize, Selected Poems (1989), and his Eric Gregory Award–winning debut, Symptoms of Loss (1965). A selection of his freelance writing appears in the essay collection Freelancing: Adventures of a Poet (1995). His additional honors include the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Cholmondeley Award. He worked at The London Magazine from 1961 to 1970 and has also edited poetry for the New Statesman. A columnist for the Times Literary Supplement and poetry editor for The Spectator, Williams lives in London. Jay G Ying is a poet, fiction writer, reviewer and translator based in Edinburgh. His work can be found in The White Review, The Poetry Review, Ambit, amberflora, The Scores among others. He is a winner of the 2019 New Poet’s Prize, and was shortlisted twice for the Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize. His first poetry pamphlet, Wedding Beasts, is forthcoming from Bitter Melon.