Amina Atiq

‘Backbencher’

Amina Atiq is a Yemeni–Scouse writer, performance artist and activist. She was awarded the LJMU Citizenship award for her active and community engagement work and awarded as a Young Associate for Curious Minds. BBC Words First Finalist 2019. She is currently a remote resident of Metal Southend, working on a new and exciting project, exploring a pamphlet for Yemeni women writers. Recent work involves a new commissioned poem for the ‘Yemen in Conflict’ project which will be used part of a multimedia exhibition at the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival. Her next upcoming commission is in collaboration with Imperial War Museums, responding to What does Victory mean? Atiq’s work explores the conflict and beauty of her dual identity, taking us on a journey to her heartland, Yemen, and her homeland, Liverpool. She is currently producing and writing her first one-woman show, exploring a 1970s Yemeni- British household to untangle what it means to belong.

Jay Bernard

‘Funny Word’

Jay Bernard is from London and works as a writer and film programmer. They are the author of Surge (Chatto & Windus 2019), which came out of a 2016 residency at the George Padmore Institute. The collection explores the archives relating to the New Cross Fire of 1981 where fourteen young black people lost their lives. Surge has been shortlisted for the Forward, Costa, T S Eliot, Jhalak, Ondaatje and Dylan Thomas prizes. Jay was the winner of the 2017 Ted Hughes award for an early version of Surge performed at the Roundhouse in London, which was followed by a full run at the Albany in Deptford in 2019. Jay’s work has also been featured in numerous anthologies – TEN: The New Wave, Voice Recognition, Out of Bounds: Black British Writers and Place and Flicker and Spark: A Contemporary Queer Anthology – and they are the author of three chapbooks, Your Sign is Cuckoo Girl (2008), English Breakfast (2013) and The Red and Yellow Nothing (2016).

Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné

‘No Word for Light’

Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné is a poet and visual artist from Trinidad and Tobago. Her poetry has been featured in publications such as Poetry London, The Rialto, Prairie Schooner, POETRY, Small Axe, Bim: Arts for the 21st Century and The Asian American Literary Review, as well as in anthologies such as Coming Up Hot: Eight Poets from the Caribbean and Thicker than Water, both published by Peekash Press. Danielle was named winner of the 2013 Small Axe Literary Competition, the 2015 Hollick-Arvon Caribbean Writers’ Prize and the 2016 Wasafiri New Writing Prize. Her first collection of poems, Doe Songs (Peepal Tree Press, 2018) was awarded the 2019 Bocas OCM Prize in Poetry.

Malika Booker

‘Always The Mix and Blend’

Malika Booker is a poetry Lecturer at Manchester University, a British poet of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage and the founder of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. Her first poetry collection Pepper Seed (Peepal Tree Press, 2013) was shortlisted for the OCM Bocas prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre 2014 prize for first full collection. She is published with the poets Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire in The Penguin Modern Poet Series 3: Your Family: Your Body (2017). Malika hosts and curates New Caribbean Voices, Peepal Tree Press’s literary podcast. A cave Canem Fellow, and inaugural Poet in Residence at The Royal Shakespeare Company, Malika was awarded the Cholmondeley Award (2019) and won The Forward Poetry Prize for Best Single Poem (2020).

Miles Chambers

‘Yellow Caribbean Joy’

Miles Chambers was Bristol’s first Poet Laureate and is one of the city’s poetic cultural commentators. He’s a slam champion and an international performance poet. He was commissioned to write and perform a poem about the inauguration of President Barack Obama, which he attended, for the Politics Show, BBC South West. He has a video performance exhibit of his poem, ‘I Wanna Be Treated Normal’, in the slavery section at the M-Shed Museum in Bristol. Miles presents the radio show ‘Lyrical Minded’ on Ujima 98fm, with guest artists, poets, writers and musicians. He co-wrote a play, Looking for Obama, co-wrote and performed in a spoken word show called Curry Goat and Fish fingers and has co-written an opera for the Welsh National Opera. Miles is currently working on a book of poems entitled The Orchard Road. Through his poetry The Bristol Post voted him one of ‘Bristol’s 50 coolest people’ and one of ‘Bristol’s 50 Funniest people’.

Kayo Chingonyi

‘Postcard from the Sholebrokes’

Kayo Chingonyi is an award-winning author of poetry and memoir; he is also Poetry Editor for The White Review and an Assistant Professor at Durham University. In 2012 he represented Zambia at Poetry Parnassus, a festival of world poets staged by the Southbank Centre as part of London’s Cultural Olympiad. He was Associate Poet at the Institute for Contemporary Arts in London from autumn 2015 to spring 2016. His latest book, Kumukanda (Chatto & Windus, 2017) won the 2018 International Dylan Thomas Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award. A Blood Condition, a new collection of poems, is forthcoming with Chatto & Windus, and Prodigal, a memoir, is forthcoming from Picador.

Michelle Scally Clarke

‘Calypso’

Michelle Scally Clarke is a poet and playwright, as well as an actor and songwriter. She has been in the business for 25 years, working alongside greats such as Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, Benjamin Zephaniah, Lemm Sissay, Brian Patten and poet laureate Simon Armitage. She has had two books published by Route Press and has released albums including I am and she is. Her work has also been published in numerous anthologies. Michelle made her name in theatre, in productions such as Word Temple and Carnival Messiah. Her own plays, First Cut and Suitcase, have toured throughout schools in Yorkshire. She was commissioned to write, tour and film a play for the NHS, called Who Genes?. Her most recent commission is piece reflecting on the Maya Angelou quote ‘we are only as blind as we want to be’, part of a response to Black Life Matters.

Jo Clement

‘Angling’

Jo Clement is a writer, editor and educator. In 2012 she was selected by Paul Farley and received a New Writing North Award. Her poems have been shortlisted for the Bridport, Melita Hume and Troubadour International Prizes. Jo holds a practice-led PhD in Creative Writing from Newcastle University and was awarded an inaugural AHRC Northern Bridge scholarship. Outlandish (New Writing North) is a collaborative walking, writing and drawing book co-authored with Damian Le Bas and illustrated by W John Hewitt. It was commissioned for the 2019 Durham Book Festival. Her illustrated debut Moveable Type (New Writing North) was published with support from Arts Council England and was shortlisted for Best Poetry Pamphlet in the 2020 Saboteur Awards. She is Managing Editor and Creative Director of Butcher’s Dog poetry magazine.

Zena Edwards

‘Marianne’s Lens’

Raised in Tottenham and now based in south London, Zena Edwards has become known as one the most unique voices of performance poetry to come out of the capital. She is published in several anthologies including Dance the Guns to Silence (flippedeye publishing). Her passions include writing poems, articles and blogs on social and environmental issues, race and power. She has been mentoring young and emerging artists in professional artists development and creative campaigning for social justice since 2010. As a multidisciplinary collaborator, Zena has worked with internationally acclaimed choreographer and dancer Akram Khan (Xenos), visual artist Theaster Gates (Soul Manufacturing Company) and radical filmmaker Fahim Alam (Riots Reframed) and The Last Poets.

Richard Georges

‘In Your Young Days, for The Specials’

Richard Georges is a writer of essays, fiction, and three collections of poetry. His most recent book, Epiphaneia (Out-Spoken), won the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and his first book, Make Us All Islands (Shearsman), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Richard is a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study and serves as the first Virgin Islands Poet Laureate. He works in higher education and lives on Tortola with his wife and children.

Salena Godden

‘Poem for Poly’

Salena Godden is a poet, author, activist and broadcaster. Born in the UK of Jamaican-Irish heritage, her books include literary childhood memoir Springfield Road (Unbound). She is the author of well-known powerful comic and political poetry anthems ‘My Tits Are More Feminist Than your Tits’ and ‘Can't Be Bovvered’. Her latest publication is Pessimism Is For Lightweights - 13 pieces of Courage and Resistance (Rough Trade Books, 2018). The poem ‘Pessimism is for Lightweights’ was a pubic poetry art piece displayed outside the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol for eighteen months; it is now on permanent display at the Peoples History Museum in Manchester. Her latest album, LIVEwire (Nymphs and Thugs), was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award. Salena’s short film, Is There Anybody Out There? (The Back of the internet) was commissioned by Google Arts and Culture/BBC Arts for their 2019 Rhyme and Reason season. Mrs Death Misses Death, Salena’s debut novel, will be published in 2021.

Maggie Harris

‘There by the Waters of Margate I sat down and Wept’

Maggie Harris is a Guyanese writer living in Kent. Twice winner of the Guyana Prize for Literature, her short story ‘Sending for Chantal’ was the Caribbean Winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. She won the T S Eliot Student Prize at Kent University, and was awarded a Leverhulme Scholarship to study performance poetry in Barbados. Her poem, ‘On Watching a Lemon Sail the Sea’, was a winner in the 2017 Welsh International Poetry Competition. Her poem for Kent, ‘Lit by Fire’, was a BBC commission for National Poetry Day. Her poem ‘Cwmpengraig, Place of Stones’ was included in the Windrush Exhibition at the British Library. Maggie has worked for Kent Arts and Libraries and Kent University; she was International Teaching Fellow at Southampton University and in 2020 was Visiting Poet in Mangalore, India. She has published three short story collections, six collections of poetry, a memoir, Kiskadee Girl, and recorded two CDs. Her latest poetry book is On Watching a Lemon Sail the Sea. Her Selected Poems is free to download at www.thecaribbeanpress.org

Khadijah Ibrahiim

‘Song n Mas’

Khadijah Ibrahiim was born in Leeds of Jamaican parentage. Educated at the University of Leeds, she is a literary activist, theatre maker and writer, who combines inter-disciplinary art forms to re-imagine poetry as performance theatre. Her collection Another Crossing was published by Peepal Tree Press (2014). In 2010 she was writer in residence for El Gouna writes, Egypt; she also travelled to South Africa as part of the British Council’s Verbalized sustained theatre programme. She is the artistic director of Leeds Young Authors, and executive producer of the award-winning documentary We Are Poets. In 2017 she was creative associate for the production Ode To Leeds at Leeds Playhouse. Khadijah is an associate artist with the Geraldine Connor foundation, where her recently commissioned work ‘Sorrel & Black Cake’ was part of their Heritage Lottery Fund A Windrush Story project.

Keith Jarrett

‘Tone’

Keith Jarrett is a writer, performer and educator based in London. UK poetry slam champion and FLUPP International Poetry Slam Winner (Rio), his work has included bilingual performances in Bilbao and Madrid, in addition to UK-wide commissions. His poem, ‘From the Log Book’, was projected onto the façade of St. Paul’s Cathedral and broadcast as a commemorative art installation, Where Light Falls, in 2019. His play, Safest Spot in Town, was performed at the Old Vic and aired on BBC Four. Selah, his poetry collection, was published in 2017. Keith was selected for the International Literary Showcase by Val McDermid as one of ten most outstanding LGBT writers in the UK. He has judged the Polari Prize, the Foyle Young Poets Award, and is the Europe and Canada regional judge for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2021. Having recently completed his PhD at Birkbeck University, he is finishing his first novel and teaches on the Creative Writing MA.

Anthony Joseph

‘Comets’

Anthony Joseph is a Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician who has been referred to as ‘the leader of the black avant garde in Britain’. As a musician and spoken word artist he has released seven critically acclaimed albums which blend Afro-Caribbean music, free jazz and funk. The most recent, People of the Sun (Heavenly Sweetness) was recorded in Trinidad and released in 2018. In the same year he curated ‘Windrush: A Celebration’, a series of five events which celebrated the literary and musical legacies of the Windrush generation, culminating in a gala concert at the Barbican as part of the London Jazz Festival. Joseph’s novel, Kitch, a biography of calypso icon Lord Kitchener, was shortlisted for the 2019 Republic of Consciousness Prize, the OCM Bocas Fiction Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award. In 2019 he was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. His latest novel, The Frequency of Magic, is just out.

Malaika Kegode

‘Sharpening a Point’

Malaika Kegode is a writer, performer and producer based in Bristol. She has worked with a number of organisations including Roundhouse, Historic England, Elstree Studios and the BBC. In 2020, Malaika’s debut theatre show Outlier was commissioned by Bristol Old Vic after two sold-out scratch performances as part of their Ferment season. Malaika’s work has been displayed at the Arnolfini and in 2018 she was included in the BME Power List, celebrating Bristol’s 100 most influential black & minority ethnic people. Outside of her poetry work, Malaika studies film and has worked as a programme selector for Encounters and Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. Her two poetry collections, Requite (2017) and Thalassic (2020), were published by Burning Eye Books.

Adam Lowe

‘The Door Handle’

Adam Lowe is the UK's LGBT History Month Poet Laureate and Yorkshire's Olympic Poet for 2012. He is a writer, educator, publisher and performer from Leeds, though he currently lives on t'other side of the Pennines, in Manchester. Adam is a guest lecturer at the University of Leeds and the University of Central Lancashire, and has worked with The Poetry School and English PEN. He was named one of the '20 best writers under 40' in Leeds for the LS13 Awards and his chapbook Precocious was a reader nomination for the Guardian First Book Prize. He was a finalist for the Venture Poetry Awards, Eric Hoffer Award and Lambda Literary Awards, and was selected as one of ten advanced poets for The Complete Works II programme, where he was mentored by poet Patience Agbabi. The Complete Works was managed by Nathalie Teitler and founded by Bernardine Evaristo. See adam-lowe.com

Hannah Lowe

‘Let Them Say’

Hannah Lowe is a writer and academic in London, UK. Her first poetry collection Chick (Bloodaxe, 2013) won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection and was short-listed for the Forward, Aldeburgh and Seamus Heaney Best First Collection Prizes. Her second collection is Chan (Bloodaxe, 2016). In 2014, she was named as one of 20 Next Generation British poets, an accolade awarded once a decade. She has also published four chapbooks: The Hitcher (Rialto 2012); R x (sine wave peak, 2013); Ormonde (Hercules Editions 2014). (2016) and most recently, The Neighbourhood. (Outspoken Press, 2019). She has been Writer in Residence at Keats House and currently lectures in Creative Writing at Brunel University.

Vladimir Lucien

‘Daub and Wattle’

Vladimir Lucien is a writer, actor and critic from St. Lucia. His debut collection of poetry, Sounding Ground (Peepal Tree Press, 2014), won the 2015 Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature and was hailed by poet Kamau Brathwaite as ‘a sign of the start of a new tradition in the anglophone Caribbean’. Lucien is also co-editor of Sent Lisi: Poems and Art of St. Lucia and the screenwriter of the 2012 documentary, The Merikins. Several of Lucien’s poems have been translated into other languages including Dutch, Mandarin, Italian and French. His criticism and essays have also been published widely in journals such as the PN Review, Asymptote and Poetry International. Hailed by CBC books in 2017 as a ‘young black writer to watch’, Lucien’s is an important voice in his generation of writers.

Cheryl Martin

‘My Salford Is Full of Flowers’

Cheryl Martin, co-Artistic Director of Manchester’s Black Gold Arts Festival, has worked as a poet, playwright and director. She was a former Associate Director at Contact Theatre and Director-in-Residence at Edinburgh’s Traverse. A Manchester Evening News Theatre Award winner as both writer (for the musical Heart and Soul, Oldham Coliseum Theatre) and director (of Iron by Rona Munro, Contact), Cheryl also co-produced and directed an Edinburgh Fringe First winner for the Traverse, entitled The World Is Too Much. Cheryl’s first solo stage show Alaska featured at 2016’s A Nation’s Theatre, and 2019’s Summerhall Edinburgh Fringe and Wellcome Festival of Minds and Bodies in London. Her new solo show One Woman won an Unlimited Wellcome Collection Partnership Award; it will premiere in 2021 at Manchester’s HOME, going on to a national tour including the Unlimited Festival at the Southbank Centre. Cheryl was part of the 2019-2020 British Council Australia INTERSECT programme. www.cherylmartin.net

Raquel McKee

‘...Sometimes Learn...’

A poet, actor, cultural training facilitator and storyteller, Raquel McKee has been living on the island of Ireland for nearly two decades. She uses poetry to interrogate the status quo and to push boundaries of perception. In 2019 Raquel was commissioned by the African and Caribbean Support Organisation Northern Ireland to write for the National Lottery Heritage Funded Links and Legacy 400 project; its showcase event, Gala Nia, was held in Titanic Building. Her cultural workshops (Legal Island; Herbert Smith Freehills and others) incorporate her poetry as stimulus or exposition. Raquel has performed at numerous Festivals and at the Poetry Ireland Cross Border Transitions showcase amongst others. Samples of her work can be found in Community Arts Partnership Monthly (July 2020), Four x Four (Issue 28), The Corridor literary publication – X Borders Issue, Writing Home anthology (Dedalus Press) and Her Other Language, as well as on her YouTube Channel.

Ashleigh Nugent

‘The Price of Glory’

Ashleigh Nugent is a writer and performer with over twenty years’ experience. His latest work, Locks, is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel set in a Jamaican prison. Locks, due to be published in summer 2020, won the 2013 Commonword Memoir Competition and has had excerpts published by Writing on the Wall and in bido lito magazine. Ashleigh’s one-man show, based on Locks, has won support from SLATE/Eclipse Theatre, and received a bursary from Live Theatre, Newcastle. The show has garnered rave audience reviews following showings in theatres and prisons throughout the UK. Ashleigh’s other published work includes poems, articles and academic writing. Ashleigh is also a director at RiseUp, where he uses his own life experience, writing and performance to support prisoners and inspire change. www.riseupcic.co.uk

Solomon O.B.

‘The Banana’

Rapper and poet Solomon O.B. is a well-known face on the Bristol scene who has performed nationally and internationally and whose poetry has been translated into Finnish. His work has featured on BBC Radio 1Xtra and 5Live and in the Guardian online, as well as being used on television on BBC 1. Solomon is a conceptual storyteller and ideas-driven creator whose influences range from the early works of Plan B to grime pioneers, like Wiley and Dizzee Rascal, to hip-hop heavyweight Kendrick Lamar. His first solo album – currently in production – showcases his skill as a lyricist, vocalist and producer and demonstrates his idiosyncratic blend of poetry, hip-hop and jazz. Now he’s emerged through his poetry, he’s keen to show the world the full scope of what he can do through other creative mediums. And push the boundaries of his art as far as they’ll go to represent the full spectrum of his talents.

Ella Otomewo

‘D.O.T.’

Ella Otomewo is a poet who found her voice in the spoken word community years ago, but now writes for both the page and the stage. She has facilitated creative writing workshops in universities, libraries, schools and at festivals, and has performed all over the UK, as well as in Amsterdam and Berlin. Ella performs her work both solo and occasionally as part of an ensemble with the renowned spoken word collective, Young Identity. This year she has worked with Manchester International Festival, Contact Theatre, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and Art with Heart.

Louisa Adjoa Parker

‘A Georgian Mansion in Cornwall, Midsummer’

Louisa Adjoa Parker is a writer of English-Ghanaian heritage who lives in south-west England. Her poetry books include Salt-sweat and Tears (Cinnamon Press) and How to wear a skin (Indigo Dreams). Louisa’s writing has appeared in a wide range of journals and anthologies including Envoi, Wasafiri, Acumen, Out of Bounds (Bloodaxe) and Closure: Contemporary Black British Short Stories (Peepal Tree). She has been highly commended by the Forward Prize; twice shortlisted by the Bridport Prize; and her grief poem, ‘Kindness’, was commended by the National Poetry Competition 2019. Louisa has written books and exhibitions exploring Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) history, and set up the Where are you really from? project telling stories of black and brown rural life. Her first short story collection will be published later this year (Colenso Books); and she has a forthcoming coastal memoir (Little Toller Books). www.whereareyoureallyfrom.co.uk/

Maureen Roberts

‘History Swirls’

Maureen Roberts (MA in Creative Writing, Goldsmiths College) is a Senior Engagement & Learning Officer at London Metropolitan Archives. She is a Trustee of the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, London and is also Operations Manager of the Ithaca College London Centre study abroad programme, working as an Administrator and lecturer. From 2010 to 2013, she was Curator of the Keats House Festival, and she was also previously the organiser of the Ithaca College Martin Luther King Scholars London Programme. In 2012, Maureen Roberts represented Grenada as part of the Southbank Centre’s Poetry Parnassus, which was part of London’s Cultural Olympiad. A published author and teacher, her poems have been widely anthologised, including on the Caribbean O level exam syllabus. Maureen is the Founder of the Archives Download group, which encourages BAME participation in archives.

Roger Robinson

‘The Rudeboy Returns’

Roger Robinson is a writer who has performed worldwide. He is the winner of the 2019 T S Eliot Prize and the 2020 RSL Ondaatje Prize. His latest collection, A Portable Paradise, was a New Statesman Book of the Year. He is an alumnus of The Complete Works and was shortlisted for The OCM Bocas Poetry Prize and the Oxford Brookes Poetry Prize, has been commended by the Forward Poetry Prize and is currently shortlisted for the 2020 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Roger has received commissions from The National Trust, the BBC, The National Portrait Gallery, the V&A Museum and Theatre Royal Stratford East among others. His workshops have been shortlisted for the Gulbenkian Prize for Museums and Galleries and were also a part of the Webby Award-winning Barbican’s Can I Have A Word. He is co-founder of Spoke Lab and the international writing collective Malika’s Kitchen. He is the lead vocalist and lyricist for King Midas Sound and has recorded solo albums with Jahtari Records.

Minoli Salgado

‘Tide Mills’

Minoli Salgado is the author of A Little Dust on the Eyes (2014), Broken Jaw (2019) and the critical study, Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance and the Politics of Place (2007). She won the first SI Leeds Literary Prize and has been nominated for the DSC Prize in South Asian Literature, the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction. In 2012 she was selected as the Olympic Poet for Sri Lanka as part of the Cultural Olympiad and London 2012. She has published widely in postcolonial studies and is currently working on a study of global testimony. She taught for many years at the University of Sussex where she was Professor of English, and has recently taken up an appointment as Professor of International Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. She lives in Lewes.

John Siddique

‘It All Takes Place in the Whole’

Sacred teacher and writer John Siddique gently draws on his Irish and Indian heritage to straddle the complications of today’s society. He has dedicated his life to honouring the authentic in our human experience. He is the author of six books ranging though poetry, memoir and non-fiction, with two new books to be published in 2021. His meditations and teachings are listened to by millions of people around the world. His writings have appeared in the Guardian, Granta, Poetry Review and on BBC Radio 3 & 4. Siddique is the former British Council Writer-in-Residence at California State University. He is an Honorary Fellow at Leicester University, and currently serves on the editorial board of WritersMosaic for The Royal Literary Fund. The Times of India calls him ‘Rebellious by nature, pure at heart’ and Scottish Makar Jackie Kay speaks of Siddique's writing as being ‘a brilliant balancing act’. www.authenticliving.life

Rommi Smith

'Palette for a Portrait of Little Richard'

Rommi Smith is an award-winning poet, playwright, theatre-maker, performer and librettist. She is a three-time BBC writer-in-residence; her work has been broadcast on programmes including Poetry Please, The Verb and Melvyn Bragg’s acclaimed series The Matter of the North. She was the inaugural British Parliamentary Writer-in-Residence and was inaugural Poet-in-Residence for Keats’ House, Hampstead. In 2018, she founded her own production company, 125TH& MIDNIGHT. Rommi is finalising her practice-led PhD, a re-reading of the classic black blues and jazz women, and is a Visiting Scholar at City University New York. She is currently collaborating with composer and baritone Roderick Williams on a new work for soprano Carolyn Sampson, to be premiered at the Australian Festival of Chamber Music (July 2020). Shortlisted for a Southbank Show Award, Rommi’s plays have been performed at the Edinburgh Festival among others and commissioned by various theatre companies. She is recipient of a Hedgebrook Fellowship (USA) and won The Northern Writers’ Prize for Poetry 2019 (chosen by the poet Don Paterson). She was recently awarded a prestigious Cave Canem fellowship in the USA. www.rommi-smith.co.uk Twitter: @rommismith Soundcloud: RommiSmith