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Robert Browning (1812 – 1889) was born in London and is one of the leading poets of the Victorian era. He is best known for the psychological power of dramatic monologues such as ‘My Last Duchess’ and for the epic The Ring and the Book, a novel in verse. He also wrote the children’s poem ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin.’

Alexandra Buckle is an artist and printmaker now living in Bicester. She studied Art at Oxford Brookes University and then Design at Staffordshire University. Her linocuts often take inspiration from the local woods where she walks and from formal gardens. Her work has been widely exhibited across the UK and she also teaches linocut at her home studio.

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Adrian Buckner lectures in Creative Writing at Derby University. He was the editor of Poetry Nottingham, renamed Assent, from 2004-2013, and is a former Reviews Editor for Staple literary magazine. He studied English at University College, Swansea, and is the author of four poetry collections, including Bed Time Reading (2011) and Contains Mild Peril (2008).

Christina Buckton lives near Cambridge. She has had various careers in the BBC, education, counselling and play therapy and didn’t start to explore poetry until her eighties. Her poems have been published in various magazines and anthologies including The North, New Contexts, Orbis, Stand, Dreich, Fenland Journal, One Hand Clapping and Words for the Wild. She won On the Buses awards at the Guernsey International Poetry competition in 2018, 2020 and 2021.

Sue Burge is a writing tutor, mentor and editor based in North Norfolk. Her poems have appeared in a wide range of journals and themed anthologies.  Her four poetry collections are: In the Kingdom of Shadows and Confetti Dancers (Live Canon), Lumière and The Saltwater Diaries (Hedgehog Poetry Press).

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Jane Burn is an award-winning poet, artist and hybrid writer. She is a working-class person with autism. Her work is widely published and anthologised. Her current collection, The Apothecary of Flight, is published by Nine Arches. She is the Michael Marks Awards Environmental Poet of the Year 2023/24 and lives off-grid in Northumberland for nine months of the year.