Artists

Mimi Khalvati

Mimi Khalvati has published nine poetry collections with Carcanet Press, including The Meanest Flower, shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2007, and Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation

Harun Morrison

Artist and writer currently living on a narrow boat on Regent’s Canal.

Will Birch

Will Birch is a writer and lyricist, drummer and songwriter with the Kursaal Flyers and The Records, author of No Sleep Till Canvey Island - The Great Pub Rock Revolution and Ian Dury - The…

Dirish Shaktidas

Dirish is a London based yoga teacher, immersed in the world of holistic healing.

Maggie Harris

Maggie Harris is a poet, prose writer, and visual artist. Originally from Guyana, she lived in Wales before relocating to Thanet, Kent.

Dzifa Afi Benson

Dzifa Benson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work insects science, art, the body and ritual which she explores through poetry, theatre-making, performance, essays, and criticism.

Time is Away

Time is Away (London-based duo Jack Rollo and Elaine Tierney) work across radio, research and site-specific sound-works.

Alison MacLeod

Anna Falcini is a visual artist whose work deals with the porous atmospheres of geography and the interface of language.

Hafsah Aneela Bashir

Hafsah Aneela Bashir is a Manchester-based poet, playwright, performer and mother originally from East London.

Carol Donaldson

Carol Donaldson is a writer and Ecologist, living in Medway. Her book On the Marshes is an engaging journey into the waterlands of the north Kent Marshes.

Morgan O’Hara

Morgan O’Hara has been a conceptual artist for over 60 years. She has committed her life to making art which observes and renders visible aspects of the human experience of living in both 20th and 21st centuries.

Carolyn Downing

Carolyn Downing is an award-winning sound designer working in a variety of fields.

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