Conceição Lima is a Santomean poet from the town of Santana in São Tomé, one of two islands in the small nation of São Tomé and Príncipe situated in the Gulf of Guinea, off the western coast of Africa. She studied journalism in Portugal and worked in radio, television and in the print press in […]
María Clara Sharupi Jua writes poetry in Spanish and Shuar, a language spoken by the indigenous community of the same name. Born and raised in the Amazon rainforest, María Clara’s poetry mixes imagery from nature and the traditions of her indigenous culture, which pre-dates that of the Incas. Her inspiration is best explained in her […]
Carole Satyamurti is a poet and sociologist. She published three volumes of poetry with Oxford University Press, of which the first and third were Poetry Book Society Recommendations: Broken Moon (1987), Changing the Subject (1990) and Striking Distance (1994). In 1998, OUP published her Selected Poems. Following the termination of the OUP poetry list, her […]
Elhum Shakerifar is writer whose work revolves around multiplicity of experience, the languages in-between, opacity and erasure. She also translates, most recently PEN Award winning, Warwick Prize nominated Negative of a Group Photograh by Azita Ghahreman, translated alongside poet Maura Dooley (Bloodaxe Books, 2018). Elhum is currently one of Writerz & Scribez’ inaugural poetry ‘Griots’. […]
Tracey Martin has worked for various international development organisations based overseas for most of her working life. She lived in Thailand for twenty years and has also spent extended periods in Nepal, Cambodia, Laos and The Gambia. She is currently based in London. Tracey writes poetry and short stories. Her poems have been published in […]
Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London, where she has lived for most of her life. She has published four collections of poetry: Night Photograph (1993), A World Where News Travelled Slowly (1997), Minsk (2003), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes, and The Casual Perfect (2011). Her first novel, Mary […]
Sean O’Brien is a leading figure in contemporary British poetry. His six collections have gained him many prizes, including the Cholmondeley Award, the Somerset Maugham award, the E.M. Forster Award, the TS Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection – which he
Mark Ford was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1962. He has published three collections of poetry, Landlocked (1992), Soft Sift (2001) and Six Children (2011). He has also published a biography of the French writer Raymond Roussel, Raymond Roussel and the Republic of Dreams, and a parallel text edition of Roussel
Zuzanna Olszewska is a Junior Research Fellow in Oriental Studies at St. John’s College, Oxford. She received a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford, having completed a dissertation on ‘Poetry and its Social Contexts Among Afghan Refugees in Iran’, which won the Foundation for Iranian Studies’ annual Dissertation Award in 2010. Her […]
Jo Shapcott was born in London. Poems from her three award-winning collections, Electroplating the Baby (1988), Phrase Book (1992) and My Life Asleep (1998) are gathered in a selected poems, Her Book (2000). She has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers