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Wendell Berry is a prolific American poet and novelist who has published over 50 books of poetry, essays and fiction. He lives in Kentucky where he has run a farm for over 40 years  and is also a passionate environmentalist. He has won numerous awards including the TS Eliot Prize and in 2010 received the National Humanities Medal from Barack Obama. His most recent poetry collection is This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems (Counterpoint LLC, 2014).

John Betjeman (1906 – 1984) was a popular poet, writer and broadcaster, and passionate defender of Victorian architecture. His Collected Poems was published in 1958 and his verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells, in 1960. He was knighted in 1969, and became Poet Laureate in 1972.

Kathryn Bevis (1975 – 2024) was an award-winning poet whose pamphlet, Flamingo, (Seren) was one of the Poetry Society’s ‘Books of the Year’ for 2022 and was shortlisted for the Saboteur Award for Best Poetry Pamphlet. Her full collection, The Butterfly House, was published by Seren in 2024.

Poems by Kathryn won the Wales Poetry Award, the Crysse Morrison Award, and the Second Light Competition. One of her poems was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem – Written – in 2023.

Sujata Bhatt was born in Ahmedabad and grew up in both India and the US, speaking Gujarati as her first language. Her first poetry collection, Brunizem, appeared in 1988 and was first published in the UK by Carcanet in 2008. It won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize (Asia) and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award. Bhatt is bilingual, but her poetry often explores the rich and non-verbal worlds of plants and creatures.

Ruth Bidgood has been publishing poetry for over fifty years. She served in the Woman’s Royal Naval Service during the Second World War, as a coder in Egypt. A distinguished poet, in 2011 she won the Roland Mathias Prize for her collection Time Being, published by Seren Books.

Robert Laurence Binyon (1869 – 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. He was born to Quaker parents in Lancaster and studied at Oxford, where he was awarded the Newdigate poetry prize.  He lived most of his life in London, where he worked at the British Museum before going to war and after his return. His best known work, For the Fallen, is often used in Remembrance Sunday services.