(IMAGE CREDIT: Seth Guy) AGATA PALMER: Agata Palmer is a bilingual Polish-British poet based in Bristol. Her pamphlet From the Land of Marmite with Love was published by Exiled Writers Ink in 2021. Her poems have been published in magazines and anthologies, eg: Ravena Press, Harana, London Grip, Tangent Books, Bristol Books, Beyond Words magazine, Eris & Eros Review. Agata’s poem Collage Without Glue received special commendations in the DIASPORA! 2024 competition. Agata has studied Creative Writing at University of Bristol and Bath Spa, currently in the last year of her MA study.   Agata loves facilitating creative writing, commissions for community poems, has been funded to run Writing 4 Wellbeing workshops, is a regular at local open mics and online events, part of Bristol Stanza, Bristol Poets Group and Diverse Artists Network. SAMATAR ELMI: Samatar Elmi's debut pamphlet, ‘Portrait of Colossus’ (flipped eye press, 2021), was selected as a PBS Pamphlet Choice. His debut collection, ‘The Epic of Cader Idris’ (Bloomsbury Press, 2024), includes the 2021 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize winning poem 'The Snails'. Poems have appeared widely including in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Magma, and Iota and anthologised in More Fiya, Filigree, After Plath, and The Echoing Gallery. Elmi is an Obsidian Fellow and a flipped eye press associate poetry editor. As Knomad Spock, his  albums 'Winter of Discontent', 'A Darker Light' and 'Through the Walls' have been met with critical acclaim (Clash, Afropunk, Buzzmag, Record Collector) and featured across BBC Radio.  CALEB PARKIN: Caleb Parkin, Bristol City Poet 2020 - 22, has published three pamphlets and his debut collection, This Fruiting Body (Nine Arches) was longlisted for the Laurel Prize. Mingle, his second, was published in 2024. He is a practice-based PhD researcher at University of Exeter, exploring human-nonhuman communication and critter-voices in contemporary ecopoetics. MATTHEW GRIGG: Matthew Grigg is a Bristol UK based musician active across free and experimental musics. He is also a concert organiser and graphic artist. He has collaborated extensively with artists such as Colin Webster, Tina Hitchens, Robin Foster, Matt Davis, Charlotte Keefe & Dominic Lash. His approach to his instrument is grounded in an exploration of it’s potential, unbound by convention. The music sits outside of easy categorisation, reframing ideas of improvisation and noise. He has played across Europe with a large number of artists including: Burkhard Beins, Steve Beresford, Adam Bohman, Tobias Brügge, Angharad Davies, Bertrand Denzler, Martin Hackett, Tim Hill, Erhard Hirt, Jason Kahn, Thomas Lehn, Eivind Lønning, Luigi Marino, Hannah Marshall, Phil Minton, Rachel Musson, Camila Nebbia, Helen Papaioannou, Espen Reinertsen, John Russell, Yoni Silver, Dirk Serries, Alex Ward, Alan Wilkinson, Friso van Wijck and many others. MARK ANTHONY PEARCE: Mark Anthony Pearce lives and works as a Receptionist in Bristol. He is the author of twelve books of Poetry, most recently 'The Store Beyond The Styx' (With Tohm Bakelas, Danny D Ford, Gwil James Thomas, Paul Sims and Seth Guy) (2025, Between Shadows Press). His poems have appeared in over 23 journals online and in print. He is the editor of Kertecz Press.

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