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Christina Buckton lives near Cambridge. She has had various careers in the BBC, education, counselling and play therapy and didn’t start to explore poetry until her eighties. Her poems have been published in various magazines and anthologies including The North, New Contexts, Orbis, Stand, Dreich, Fenland Journal, One Hand Clapping and Words for the Wild. She won On the Buses awards at the Guernsey International Poetry competition in 2018, 2020 and 2021.

Sue Burge is a writing tutor, mentor and editor based in North Norfolk. Her poems have appeared in a wide range of journals and themed anthologies.  Her four poetry collections are: In the Kingdom of Shadows and Confetti Dancers (Live Canon), Lumière and The Saltwater Diaries (Hedgehog Poetry Press).

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Jane Burn is an award-winning poet, artist and hybrid writer. She is a working-class person with autism. Her work is widely published and anthologised. Her current collection, The Apothecary of Flight, is published by Nine Arches. She is the Michael Marks Awards Environmental Poet of the Year 2023/24 and lives off-grid in Northumberland for nine months of the year.

James Roderick Burns studied at the University of Oxford and the State University of New York. He is the author of a collection of tanka (The Salesman’s Shoes), a collection of sedoka sequences (Greetings from Luna Park) and a book of short fiction, A Bunch of Fives (Mudfog Press).

Jim Burns  was born in Preston and left school at 16 to work in a cotton mill. He soon began writing poems and stories and publishing articles and reviews in The Guardian, the New Statesman and selected jazz magazines. His poetic style is conversational and infused with a strong sense of life in the north. Laying Something Down: Poems 1962-2007 was published by Shoestring Press in 2007 and the chapbook let’s do it by The Black Light Engine Room Press in 2018.

Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) was a  poet and lyricist, widely regarded as a pioneer of the Romantic movement.  Often viewed as the national poet of Scotland, he is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although he also wrote in English and a light Scots dialect that made his work accessible to an audience beyond Scotland.