Notes on Contributors

Sam Buchan-Watts is the author of Faber New Poets 15 and co-editor of Try To Be Better (Prototype, 2019). He is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award and a Northern Writers Award for poetry. 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 Katie Da Cunha Lewin is a writer and tutor based in London. She has a PhD in literature, examining the novels of J.M. Coetzee and Don DeLillo. She is the co-editor of Don DeLillo: Contemporary Critical Perspectives published by Bloomsbury in 2018, and recently wrote an entry on Don DeLillo for the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Her writing has appeared in 3AM, Hotel, The White Review, Times Literary Supplement, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She teaches courses on literature, theory and film at the University of Sussex, the IF Project, Bishopsgate, City Lit, and Picturehouse Cinemas.

Ethan Darden is a researcher in comparative literature at UCL, studying ancient legends in ancient books. Originally from Friendswood, Texas, he was educated in Buenos Aires, Paris and Cambridge before arriving in London. In his spare time Ethan moonlights as a writer and an editor. Martina Evans is an Irish poet and novelist, the author of eleven books of prose and poetry. Burnfort Las Vegas was a finalist for the Poetry Now Award in 2015 and her latest book of poems Now We Can Talk Openly About Men is published by Carcanet in May 2018. A regular contributor to The Irish Times, she is a Royal Literary Fund Advisory Fellow and lives in London with her daughter Liadain. Will Forrester is a writer and critic, and is International and Translation Manager at English PEN. He is currently Editor of PEN Transmissions and Assistant Editor at Review 31, and has previously worked for Commonwealth writers – the cultural initiative of the Commonwealth Foundation – and in the visual arts in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Matthew Francis is the author of five Faber books of poetry, most recently The Mabinogi (2017). He has twice been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, and in 2004 was chosen as one of the Next Generation poets. He has also edited W. S. Graham’s New Collected Poems, and published a collection of short stories and two novels, the second of which, The Book of the Needle (Cinnamon Press) came out in 2014. He lives in West Wales and is Professor in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. Jane Fraser is an award-winning writer of short story, historical fiction, memoir and haibun. Her debut collection of short stories, The South Westerlies (Salt, 2019), is an attempt to know place (Gower) through the creation of a collection of short stories. She lives and works in Llangennith, a small village at the north-western edge of the Gower Peninsula, south Wales, in a house facing the sea which bears the full brunt of the south-westerly wind. Paul Gittins was educated at Exeter College, Oxford where he read English Literature. His first book, a poetry anthology Portraits in Verse was published in 1997 by The Perpetua Press, Oxford. In 2014, Scratching Around, a selection of poems, was published by Editions Illador in English and bilingual English-French editions. Also in 2014, On Track, his biography of his grandfather, railway pioneer in Siam and Canada, was published by River Books. Articles on poetry have been published in Oxford Today magazine. He now lives in Majorca, where he continues to write and give poetry recitals. Frieda Hughes’s poems have been published in The New Yorker, Tatler, The Spectator, Thumbscrew, The Paris Review, First Pressings, and The London Magazine among others. Her latest publication, Out of the Ashes (Bloodaxe Books) brings together work from four collections: Wooroloo (1999), Stonepicker (2001), Waxworks (2002) and The Book of Mirrors (2009) and is available now.

Charles Jennings is an award-winning London-based writer and journalist. He is probably best known for his wiseguy travelogue Up North and the Edwardian social history Them And Us; for his writings on architecture, property and the urban environment, in The Guardian and Telegraph newspapers; and for his wine-writing shenanigans with Sediment, in both blog and book form. John Kinsella’s most recent book of poetry is Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems (Picador, 2016). His most recent book of short stories is Crow’s Breath from the Australian publisher Transit Lounge (2015). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Professor of Literature and Sustainability at Curtin University, Western Australia. Dominic Leonard’s pamphlet of medieval centos, love, bring myself (2019), was a Poetry Book Society Selection. In 2019 he received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. He lives and teaches in London. Erik Martiny teaches literature, art and translation to Chartes and Khâgne students at the Lycée Henri IV in Paris. His articles on contemporary art, fashion and literature have appeared in the TLS, Aesthetica, Fjords Review and Whitewall Magazine among others. His first novel The Pleasures of Queueing was published in 2018. Chris McCabe’s work crosses artforms and genres including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama and visual art. He was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award in 2013 and his five collections of poetry include The Triumph of Cancer (2018), which is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His first novel, Dedalus was published by Henningham Family Press in 2018 and was shortlisted for the 2019 Republic of Consciousness Prize. His latest novel is Mud, a version of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set beneath Hampstead Heath. His nonfiction work includes an ongoing series of books which document his search to discover a great forgotten poet in one of London’s Magnificent Seven cemeteries; titles include In the Catacombs (2014), Cenotaph South (2016) and the forthcoming The East Edge: Nightwalks with the Dead Poets of Tower Hamlets. He is the editor of Poems from the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages (2019). He works as the National Poetry Librarian. Patricia McCarthy, editor of Agenda (www.agendpapoetry.co.uk) won the National Poetry Competition 2013. Previous collections include Rodin’s Shadow, Horses Between Our Legs, and Letters to Akhmatova. Trodden Before (High Window Press), and Rockabye (Worple Press) have recently been published. Jeffrey Meyers, FRSL, has published Painting and the Novel, The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis, Impressionist Quartet: Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt, Modigliani: A Life and The Mystery of the Real: Correspondence with Alex Colville. His latest book is Resurrections: Authors, Heroes – and a Spy (2018). Emmanuelle Pagano was born in 1969 in the Aveyron region of southern France and studied fine art and the aesthetics of cinema. She now lives and works on the Ardèche plateau. She has written more than a dozen works of fiction, and in France is primarily published by P.O.L. She has won the EU Prize for Literature and her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. She regularly collaborates with artists working in other disciplines such as dance, cinema, photography, illustration, fine art and music.

Brit Parks is an American poet, artist, and scholar. She is the Art Editor and Features Writer for Unpolished Magazine. Her poems are featured in the book SMEAR, edited by Greta Bellamacina, RINE Journal, Rx Magazine Editor’s Choice, and New River Press Yearbook. She was featured in a poetry reading at Shakespeare and Company Paris. Parks received her Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She was a recipient of the prestigious Edes Fellowship. She is based in New York.

Xenobe Purvis is a literary researcher living in London, working on her first novel and currently assisting in the preparation of a volume of Christopher Isherwood’s selected letters. Her essays and reviews have appeared in 3AM Magazine, Review 31, Litro, City AM, Glasgow Review of Books, and anthologies in the UK and US, among other places. Tony Roberts’s fifth collection, The Noir American & Other Poems, was published in 2018. His second book of essays on poets and poetry, The Taste of My Mornings, appeared in spring 2019. Both are from Shoestring Press.

Jaya Savige was born in Sydney and lives and works in London. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry, nine volumes of The Best Australian Poems, and elsewhere. Her books include Latecomers, which won the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Poetry, and Surface to Air, shortlisted for The Age Poetry Book of the Year and several other awards. Her forthcoming collection, Mean Time

Between Failures, will be published next year. Tom Sutcliffe is an English opera critic, author and journalist. He is also a current member of the General Synod of the Church of England, first elected for the Diocese of Southwark in 1990. From 2002 until 2011 he was a member of the Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England. Stuart Walton is a cultural historian and critic. He is author of Intoxicology: A Cultural History of Drink and Drugs, as well as A Natural History of Human Emotions, In The Realm of the Senses: A Materialist Theory of Seeing and Feeling, Introducing Theodor Adorno and a novel, The First Day in Paradise. His monograph on the chilli pepper, The Devil’s Dinner, was published by St Martin’s Press in October 2018.

Imogen Woodberry is an AHRC funded PhD student at the Royal College of Art, researching interwar esotericism and utopia internationalism. She is assistant editor at Review 31.