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Susan Taylor farmed in Lincolnshire until she was 30 and now lives with her husband on the southern edge of Dartmoor. Her writing draws its moods from the natural world and her most recent collection is A Small Wave For Your Form (Oversteps Books, 2012). She runs regular poetry workshops in Totnes where she lives.

Sara Teasdale (1844 – 1933) was an American poet whose well-crafted lyrical poetry explores a woman’s changing perspectives on beauty, love, and death. Her final collection Strange Victory was published after she took her own life in 1933.

Kae Tempest is an acclaimed spoken word artist, playwright and novelist who lives in London. In 2014 they released a solo album, Everybody Down, later nominated for a Mercury Award. Their epic narrative poem, ‘Brand New Ancients’, won the 2013 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, and their recent poetry collection, Hold Your Own, was published by Picador.

Barry Tench is a poet who has been published in various magazines and anthologies nationwide. He has secured Arts Council funding to work on his first collection.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809 – 1892) was Poet Laureate of the UK during most of Queen Victoria’s reign, and is remembered as one of the leading – perhaps the leading – poet of the day.  A prolific author, some of his poems, such as ‘Ulysses’, ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ (which recounts the events of a battle in the Crimean War) and the series of poems that make up ‘In Memoriam’ (written in memory of his friend, Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet engaged to Tennyson’s sister) remain cornerstones of nineteenth-century British poetry.

Jean Tepperman was born in Syracuse, New York. She is a poet, writer, campaigner and teacher and was very active in the anti-Vietnam War movement. Her poems have appeared in publications including Lion Rampant and The Old Mole, as well as in Sisterhood is Powerful (New York, Random House 1970).