Nadine Aisha Jassat is a writer and poet. In 2018, she received the Scottish Book Trust New Writers’ Award and was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. In 2019, Scottish Makar (poet laureate) Jackie Kay listed her as one…

“Or is that troubled surface something elseshadowy under the dipped fingers of willowswhere satiny mud blooms in cloudiness…” Gillian Clarke’s poetry is deceptively simple, with vivid imagery and layers of meaning below the surface. Clarke is a Welsh poet. From…

Clare Pollard published her first book of poems in 1998, when she was 19. She was chosen as Poetry Review’s “New Poets of 1996”, and, in 2000 won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors Pollard’s poetry is…