Abigail Parry’s first collection, Jinx, is published by Bloodaxe, and deals in trickery, gameplay, masks and costume. The poems have won a number of awards, including the Ballymaloe Prize, the Troubadour Prize and an Eric Gregory Award. A chapbook of her translations of antique Spanish love poems, Death by Hearts and Flowers, is published by […]
Poet Kim Hyesoon first gained critical attention in the late nineties when a wave of influential women’s poetry emerged from South Korea. Her work is full of surreal, poetic images and speaks directly to female experience, the poems resonate with daily life, grounding her sometimes experimental use of language. In her native South Korea she […]
Érica Zíngano was born in 1980 in Fortaleza-Ceará, Brazil. She received a Master’s in Portuguese Literature at the Universidade de São Paulo in 2011, and then she moved to Europe, to Portugal, where she began a Ph.D in Literary Studies – Portuguese Studies at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Since 2014, she was living and […]
Silvina Giaganti is an Argentinian philosopher and writer. She published her first collection of poems tarda en apagarse in 2018. Her poems are autobiographical and tackle issues that Giaganti,faces in her personal and professional life. She says her poems emerged from memory, from moments she couldn’t forget that are connected to places in her life, […]
Xiao An (born in 1964) is a poet of the fei-fei (“not-not”) school. For decades she combined a writing career with her work as a nurse in a Chengdu psychiatric hospital, earning the respect of the literary world through poems that fuse classical Chinese influences with the stark confessional tone of Sylvia Plath. Her 2002 […]
Adam Feinstein is an acclaimed British author, poet, translator, Hispanist, journalist, film critic and autism researcher. His biography of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, Pablo Neruda: A Passion for Life, was first published by Bloomsbury in 2004 and reissued in an updated edition in 2013 (Harold Pinter called it ‘a masterpiece’). His book of translations from […]
Sascha Aurora Akhtar originates from Pakistan, and was educated there and in the USA. Her debut poetry collection, The Grimoire of Grimalkin, was published in 2007 and greeted as “a contemporary masterpiece”, with the British newspaper The Guardian naming Akhtar one of the top twelve poets to watch. About her own work, she says: “As […]
Shamim Azad is a British bilingual poet, storyteller and writer of Bangladeshi origin. Shamim Azad was born in Mymensingh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (the town where her father worked), her hometown was Sylhet. She passed her Metric from Jamalpur Girls High School in 1967 and passed her Intermediate from Tangail Kumudini College in 1969. She enrolled in […]
Nirmalendu Goon (born 1945) is one of the most popular Bangladeshi poets known for his accessible verse. He was born in Kashbon in Barhatta in Netrokona, undivided India, present-day Bangladesh. His first book of poetry was published in 1970. Since then he has published forty-five collections of poetry and twenty collections of prose. Part of […]
Hailing from the community of Mon Repos, Saint Lucia, Liz Faisal-Philip began writing poetry in her teenage years. The community, embedded in culture and cultural icons like Sessenne Descartes, shaped her identity, and the passion for it informed her appreciation the arts. She has taken part in poetry slams across the island both English and […]