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Tom Sastry is a British poet. His most recent collection is You have No Normal Country To Return To (Nine Arches Press, 2022) which explores national identity and ‘the end of history’. His first collection A Man’s House Catches Fire (Nine Arches Press, 2019) was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize.

Carole Satyamurti (1939 – 2019) was a British poet and translator. She came to writing poetry in later life, having been a sociology lecturer for many years. Her first collection was Broken Moon (Oxford University Press, 1987) which was followed by five further collections. Her retelling of the Indian epic poem the Mahabharata was published in 2015.

Lesley Saunders is a poet, poetry mentor and translator. She studied Classics at university and went on to publish numerous collections including most recently This Thing of Blood & Love (Two Rivers Press, 2022). She has also translated the work of the Portuguese poet Maria Teresa Horta.

Vernon Scannell (1922 – 2007) was a poet, novelist and critic. In 1960, he won the Heinemann Award for Literature, and in 1975 his collection The Loving Game was a Poetry Book Society choice.  He has been described as “one of the finest poets of his generation” and continued to publish poems until the last year of his life.

David Scott, a Church of England priest and poet, was born in Cambridge in 1947. He studied Theology at Durham University and Cuddesdon College and is an Honorary Canon of Winchester Cathedral.   He has written a number of prize-winning poetry collections for adults, four of which have been published by Bloodaxe Books, as well as a collection of poems for children.  In addition to his poetry collections, he has written several plays and books about religion.

EJ Scovell (1907 – 1999) was an English poet and translator. She was born in Sheffield and studied English Literature at Somerville College, Oxford. She published four collections of poetry, including Listening to Collared Doves in 1956. Her Collected Poems were published by Carcanet Press in 1996.