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Rosie Garner’s poetry has been widely published in magazines and anthologies and her poetry collections include Poetry On the Buses (2006) and The Rain Diaries (2010). She leads creative writing workshops for organisations including Headway, Nottingham, and has been Writer in Residence for HMP Whattton and Nottingham City Transport.

Len Garrison (1943 – 2003) was born in Jamaica and moved to London in the 1950s. He was a community activist, poet and educationist who championed black writing and co-founded the Black Cultural Archives and the African and Caribbean Educational Resource (Acer). A poetry collection Beyond Babylon  was published by Black Star in  1985.

Victoria Gatehouse is a zoologist, poet and children’s writer based in the Pennines. Her pamphlet The Mechanics of Love (Smith|Doorstop) was selected as a ‘Laureate’s Choice’ by Carol Ann Duffy in 2019.  Her poems have been published in many journals and anthologies including The North, Magma, Mslexia, Anthropocene, Butcher’s Dog, The Rialto, Spelt, She is Fierce and After Sylvia. She is a three-time winner of The Poetry News Members’ Competition and was highly commended in the Gingko Prize 2023.  Her debut collection is forthcoming in 2024.

Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931) was a Lebanese painter and poet who spent most of his life in the US and wrote in English. His simple and direct style was influential in the transformation of Arabic literature in the early 20^th century. His best-known book is probably The Prophet (Alfred A Knopf, 1923) a series of prose poetry fables which has been translated into over 100 languages and has never been out of print.

James Stanley Gilbert (1855 – 1906) was an American poet. He was born in New England but went to Panama to work as a shipping agent in 1886. His collection Panama Patchwork (1894) reflects this phase of his life and led to his fans describing him as the ‘poet laureate of Panama’.  His premature death was due to malaria.

Evan Gill Smith is an American poet living in New York. His work has been widely published in journals and he also produces poetry videos for the series Poeta. He teaches creative writing at The City University of New York.