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I was brought up on a Suffolk Farm in the 1950’s and 60’s.  Following a degree in English at Lancaster and library studies at Aberystwyth, I was a librarian in Slough and in Norfolk and Suffolk, working with children and teachers and in a prison. Inspired by winning the Crabbe Poetry Competition back in 2002,…

I was born to a German mother and English father shortly after the end of the war, and grew up speaking both English and German at home. I spent my early childhood in fifties Nottingham and the remainder in Kendal in the Lake District, where I had the good fortune to have an English teacher…

Ben Ridley-Jones (b.1993) spent much of his childhood in the Suffolk countryside with his family which has roots stretching back centuries in the county. He read History at Cambridge before embarking on a career of public service working to address the housing and homelessness crisis in England. For many years a reader of as much…

James Domestic is a poet, musician, songwriter, vocalist, DJ, and painter. James’ poetry has been compared to John Cooper Clarke, Spike Milligan, Ivor Cutler, and Benjamin Zephaniah, amongst others.  He holds a doctorate from the University of Essex and has toured across Europe with his band, The Domestics.  Having grown up in Essex, he now resides…

Virginia Betts is a British author, poet, actor and tutor from Ipswich in Suffolk. She has written four books: The Camera Obscure, a collection of supernatural and noir stories; Tourist to the Sun, a poetry collection, That Little Voice, poetry by Virginia Betts and Burnt Lungs and Bitter Sweets, Virginia’s debut novel, a darkly comic…