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Barbara Daniels has lived much of her life in Wales and her award-winning poems are regularly published in a number of magazines. She is the author of six poetry collections, including Take Off (2002) and The Cartographer Sleeps (2005), published by Shoestring Press.

Jim Daniels is an American poet and writer who has produced fiction and screenplays as well as poetry. He has published numerous collections, most recently Comment Card (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2024). His work has appeared in The Best American Poetry and in Pushcart Prize volumes. He is the Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor of English Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program.

Kerry Darbishire is a songwriter and poet who lives and writes in a remote area of Cumbria. She has published two full poetry collections with Indigo Dreams: A Lift of Wings (2014) and Distance Sweet on my Tongue (2018).  She co-edited the Handstand Press Cumbrian Poetry Anthology, This Place I Know. Handstand Press also published Kay’s Ark, an account of Kerry’s mother’s life. Kerry regularly reads her work at poetry events and is a member of Dove Cottage Poets.

Miriam Darlington is a writer and poet. She has published two works of non-fiction: Otter Country (Granta, 2013) and Owl Sense (Guardian Faber, 2018) as well as a poetry collection Windfall (Overstep Books, 2008). She is also a regular columnist for The Times’s Nature Notebook. She works as a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth and lives in Devon with her family and various animals.

Mahmoud Darwish (1941 – 2008) was a Palestinian poet who lived for many years in exile in Beirut and Paris. He published more than 30 poetry collections and several prose works and received many awards. He was considered to be a ‘resistance poet’ and his early work reflects his unhappiness at the occupation of his native land. He was placed under house arrest when his poem ‘Identity Card’ was turned into a protest song.

Elizabeth Daryush (1887 – 1977) was the daughter of British poet laureate Robert Bridges and had a privileged upbringing in Edwardian England. Her poetry is often traditional in style, although her later work was influenced by the years she spent living in Persia and explored issues of social injustice. Her Collected Poems was published by Carcanet in 1976.