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Rosalind Bliss is an artist based in Derbyshire. She studied at Edinburgh College of Art, gaining a Diploma in mural painting.  She works with oils, creating canvases and folding mural screens of rural landscapes and has more recently begun to specialise in wood engraving.  Her work is characterised by a rhapsodic atmosphere in which trees and skies are full of movement and drama.

Sara Boccaccini Meadows is an English artist, illustrator and textile designer now based in New York. She graduated from Leeds College of Art and takes inspiration from nature and from the small details of her everyday surroundings. Her patterns and prints are often quirky and whimsical, but always beautiful. She has also published a book about botanical painting.

Eavan Boland is a highly-respected Irish poet, born in Dublin. She writes poetry, prose (including a memoir Object Lessons published in 1995), criticism and essays, and has taught at several universities in both Ireland and the USA. She is the author of several books of poetry, including a New Selected Poems published by Carcanet in 2013.

Laurie Bolger is a British poet based in London. She was shortlisted for Young Poet Laureate of London in 2014.  Her debut collection is Lady (Nine Arches, 2025) and she has also published several pamphlets: Makeover (Emma Press, 2024),  Spin (The Poetry Business, 2024) and Box Rooms (Burning Eye Books, 2016). Laurie is founder of The Creative Writing Breakfast Club and Poetry in Pyjamas.

Paul Bommer is an artist and illustrator with a particular interest in history and character, often informed by an irreverent sense of humour. He graduated from the National College of Art & Design in Dublin and now works from his studio in Norfolk. He was commissioned to create a ceramic Delft tile plaque commemorating the Huguenots of Spitalfields which can be seen on Hanbury Street in London.

Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné is a poet and artist from Trinidad & Tobago. Her poetry has been featured in anthologies such as Coming Up Hot: Eight New Poets from the Caribbean (2015) and The Sea Has No Ornament  (Peepal Tree Press, 2020).  Her first full collection is Doe Songs (Peepal Tree Press, 2018) which won the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry. She lives in Sangre Grande, Trinidad.