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Biographies

Here you can find out more about the huge range of poets we feature in our pamphlets and the artists whose work appears on our beautiful covers.

We’ve now published poems by almost 850 historical and contemporary poets. In our pages you’ll find old favourites alongside twenty-first century voices – everyone from WH Auden to Belinda Zhawi. Although our emphasis is on British poetry, you’ll also find Irish, American and Australian writers. We hope these pages will encourage you to explore further the work of a poet you’ve enjoyed in one of our pamphlets.

  • Jeremy Young

    Jeremy Young is a British poet who lives in the Somerset countryside. He studied Theology at Christ’s College, Cambridge and was for a while an Anglican priest. His poems have been published in various journals including Orbis, South, The New Writer and The Interpreters House. A pamphlet The Wind’s Embrace was published by Acumen in 2014.

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  • Sarah Young

    Sarah Young is a printmaker, designer, painter, maker and illustrator whose first creative venture was a travelling puppet theatre with her husband. She now works from her studio on the south coast of England and her work is widely exhibited in galleries across the UK and in the US.  She has recently illustrated a collection of Greek Myths for children, published by Walker Books.

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  • Holly Yuille

    Holly Yuille is a poet and fiction writer, who often uses magic realism in her work. As well as holding a Creative Writing Degree from Swansea University, Holly regularly performs at spoken word events in Worcester where she now lives. She was the winner of the 2019 Worcestershire Litfest Flash Fiction Slam.

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  • Belinda Zhawi

    Belinda Zhawi is a Zimbabwean-born writer and educator based in London. She is a former London Laureate and ICA Associate Poet whose work explores the effects of colonialism on southern Africa. Her pamphlet Small Inheritances was published by Ignition Press in 2019.  She has run the London poetry platform Born::Free for five years.

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  • Sarah Ziman

    Sarah Ziman is a poet who was born and brought up in the South Wales valleys, and currently lives in Hertfordshire. She won the YorkMix Poems for Children Competition in 2021, and has had poems for young people published in anthologies and magazines worldwide. Her debut children’s collection, Why Did My Brain Make Me Say It? will be published in September 2024, by Troika Books.

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