| Roselle Angwin, is a poet, author and director of the Fire in the Head creative and reflective writing programme. Her work hinges on the connections between inner and outer landscapes, between self and other, and between creativity and wellbeing. Recent books are Writing the Bright Moment and Looking For Icarus. Her novel Imago is due out in November 2008. See www.fire-in-the-head.co.uk |
| Mimi Khalvati, founded The Poetry School in London. Her books of poetry, published by Carcanet, include In White Ink, Mirrorwork, Entries on Light and The Chine. Her latest publication is The Meanest Flower. |
| Andie Lewenstein has taught creative writing in adult education centres, on Emerson College's Word Work course and in a health centre. She has published poems and stories. |
| Janis Mackay, poet and creative speech teacher has 20 years experience working as a creative speech coach, mostly focusing on the art of speaking poetry. She also has an MA in creative writing and personal development from the University of Sussex. |
| Paul Matthews, poet and movement teacher, is a lecturer at Emerson College. His publications include Sing Me the Creation (Hawthorn Press), The Ground that Love Seeks (Five Seasons Press), and Words In Place (Hawthorn Press). He travels widely with his work. |
| Hugo Williams, poet, travel writer and journalist, published his first book of poems Symptoms of Loss in 1965, since when he has published a new book about every five years, the last being Dear Room (Faber) in 2006. He won the T S Eliot prize for Billy's Rain in 1999 and was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2004. |
