KERTECZ#43

(IMAGE CREDIT: Seth Guy)

SAMATAR ELMI:

Samatar Elmi is an award-winning writer, musician, editor and educator whose work brings poetry into conversation with myth, history, diaspora, sound and speculative futures. His debut pamphlet, Portrait of Colossus(flipped eye press, 2021), was selected as a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. His debut full-length collection, The Epic of Cader Idris (Bloomsbury, 2024), includes the poem that won the 2021 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. His poetry has appeared in Poetry, Prairie Schooner, The Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Magma and Iota, and in anthologies including More Fiya, Filigree, After Sylvia and The Echoing Gallery. He is an Obsidian Fellow and an associate poetry editor at flipped eye press. Throughout 2026, Elmi is touring nationally with three collections published concurrently: Agen Bien Fou (Kulvert Books, 2026), Reclamations: Disregard Prior Prompt (Aout Fecit, 2026) and 26 Poems for Cash, co-written with Sam Telford (Kulvert Books, 2026). Further books are in development for 2027: Our Eyes Are Crystal Balls and Nightmares: Ekphrastic Meditations on Honoria Brown’s “Nightmares” Series, co-written with Honoria Brown and Will Moorfoot.

NICK MOORE: 

Nick is a Bristol-based poet, improvising musician and visual artist. He has been writing and performing poetry for over thirty years, and as poet and musician has collaborated with dancers, visual artists, musicians and other poets, in various combinations. – most consistently with In-congruity Project since 1993. BirdWater, selected poems 1994-2024, was published by Kertecz Press, 2025, now held in the National Poetry Library. In recent years he has become more interested in how writing looks on the page and exploring the sound of words. He has published many books which explore this relationship, in the COncreteVisualSOnicPhOnicWOrdPlay series. Some of these are now held in the British Library’s contemporary print archive. He is currently showing a series of paintings at HOURS Gallery in Colston Yard, Bristol, inspired by DaDa and Futurist graphics, and concrete poetry.

DANNY D FORD: 

Danny D. Ford’s poetry & artwork has appeared in numerous online and print titles. He has a number of chapbooks to his name, including recent titles If You're Waiting for a Sign This Ain't It (Crying Heart Press, 2026),  Socks & Scandals (Two Key Customs, 2026), as well as the full-length collection What’s a Monday Called? (Yellow King Press). He can be found in Bergamo, Italy.

< u>www.theunfoldinghead.com< /u> / @theunfoldinghead / < u>[email protected]< /u>