Guest Poet: James Davey

James Davey grew up in Bristol and currently lectures in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Before returning to the U.K. in 2014, he spent three years working in Catania, Sicily, as an English-language teacher. His poetry has previously appeared in journals including Poetry Wales, New Welsh Reader, Stand, The Warwick Review, Ambit, New Walk, Agenda, and The Interpreter's House. His debut pamphlet, How to Parallel Park, was published by V.Press in spring 2018.

Guest Poet: Jinny Fisher

Jinny Fisher was a classical violinist, then a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, now a poet full-time. A member of Wells Fountain Poets and Frome Stanza, her work has appeared in print and online magazines including The Interpreter's House, Under the Radar, Domestic Cherry, Tears in the Fence, Prole, The Poetry Shed, Strange Poetry, Amaryllis and Ink, Sweat & Tears. Jinny has been commended and placed in national and international competitions and she's committed to bringing poetry to a wider audience, taking her Poetry Pram to music festivals for one-to-one readings. Her first pamphlet, The Escapologist, will be published by V. Press, in early 2019. Her poems have been described as 'very taut and very disquieting'.