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Matthew Welton was born in Nottingham in 1969 and lives in Manchester. He received the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for The Book of Matthew (Carcanet, 2003), which was a Guardian Book of the Year. He was a Hawthornden Fellow in
Cathi Unsworth is a novelist, writer and editor who lives and works in London. She began her career working on the music weekly Sounds at the age of 19 and has worked as a writer and editor for many other music
Poet Jo Shapcott was born in London in 1953. She was an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Royal Holloway College, University of London, where she teaches on the MA in Creative Writing. She
Fiona Sampson was born in London in 1968. After a brief career as a concert violinist, she studied at Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate Prize. She has a PhD in the philosophy of language from Nijmegen University. Her
Hisashi Nakamura was born in a village in the mountains of central Japan in 1950. His first job was as a customs officer at the busy port of Nagoya. He has been writing poetry from an early age and at
Sir Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999 until 2009. Born in 1952, he read English at University College, Oxford and subsequently spent two years writing about the poetry of Edward Thomas for an M. Litt. From 1976 to 1980
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