(IMAGE CREDIT: Seth Guy)

FABRIZIA COSTA: 

Fabrizia Costa is a writer, designer, photographer, and author of two very different books with one thing in common: perspective.

Time Zero – a sharp, darkly funny retelling of the week of Creation from Lucifer's point of view – was written in 2004, sat in a drawer for the better part of two decades, and was finally published in 2020. Make of that what you will. Described as a "page-turner" with "incredible insight" and even "a C.S. Lewis experience," it’s particularly relevant in the current political landscape.

Her second book, Stop F*cking About, is a different beast entirely – a practical, irreverent guide for creative people who have brilliant ideas and an impressive talent for not finishing them. She wrote it in twelve days – the irony is not lost on her.

Her poems are snapshots: visual, sensory, occasionally metaphorical, always precise. She writes them when something demands to be seen differently. Or seen at all.

She now works with creative professionals and founders to help them get their best work out of their heads and into the world. Turns out sixteen years in a drawer is not actually a strategy.

MARIE PAPIER:

Marie Papier is a French-speaking poet-novelist. She studied poetry at LPS, is a member of Stanza Bristol. Her poems appeared in The North, Agenda, Stand, The Lighthouse, Ink Sweat & Tears, Orbis and others. In anthologies: Smith/doorstop’s The Result is what you see today,
Poems about Running; Indigo Dreams’s Voices for the Silent. Bristol Stanza anthologies’ Calyx; Weather Indoors; Walking Words; Lyra poetry festival 2024’s Bonds & Poets’Walk. Online: The Poetry Place; Frosted Fire, Cheltenham. Short listed @ Cerasus Poetry competition 2024 for her pamphlet ‘After Picasso, there’s only God’. Her favourite themes are: human relationship, art, music, nature, spirituality, theology. Influences: R.S. Thomas, Moniza Alvi, Marie Howe, Li-Young Lee, Rebecca Elson, Amichai Yehuda, Holub Miroslaw, among others.

JAN SWANN: 

Jan Swann is a Welsh poet living in Bristol. After a lifetime of singing other people’s music she realised that the words she had for years been putting down on paper needed expression. She now writes and performs at open mics and as a featured poet at events in and around the West and Wales. Her poetry reflects her experiences and thoughts on love in its many forms – good, bad, familial, and love of her country, Wales, as well as a reimagining of women in myth – Myth Takes. Jan has appeared on BBC Upload and been published in various online magazines such as Nuthatch Magazine, Black Nore Review, Apricot Press, Ink Sweat and Tears and, in the anthologies, Whispered Word Poems, Bonds, Poets Walk and Red Poets Magazine.
HELEN MOORE: 

Dr Helen Moore is a pioneering British ecopoet, socially engaged artist, writer and scholar. She has published three internationally acclaimed ecopoetry collections, and her fourth, The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas, is forthcoming from Palewell Press in May 2026. Helen curates ECOPOETIKON, an online showcase of global ecopoetries, and teaches at two British universities. She is currently working on a climate memoir about wild Atlantic Salmons.

*On May 22nd, Helen will be launching her latest collection The Last Lighthouse in Rising Seas at Bookhaus. More information regarding that here: 

https://www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/bookhaus/fri-22-may-bring-down-the-haus-the-last-lighthouse-in-rising-seas-147775#e147775

Here's a short YouTube clip that explains Helen's homage to Ferlinghetti in the book: 
https://youtube.com/shorts/_Z7qObqfsqg?feature=share

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