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Jen Hadfield was born in Cheshire and is the author of two collections of poetry – Almanacs (2005) and the Poetry Book Society recommended Nigh-No-Place (2008), winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Both collections are published by Bloodaxe Books. She lives in Shetland.

Hafiz (c. 1320 – 1389) or Hafez was a Persian mystic and lyric poet who followed the Sufi religion. His work expressed the miracle of divine love and inspiration, often using the ancient Arabic form of the ghazal. His most famous work is his Divan of Hafiz which is a collection probably put together after his death.

Robert Hamberger has published six poetry pamphlets and four full-length collections. Blue Wallpaper (Waterloo Press, 2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 Polari Prize. His prose memoir with poems A Length of Road: finding myself in the footsteps of John Clare was published in 2021. He has been shortlisted and highly commended in the Forward prizes, and his poetry has appeared in a number of international anthologies, as well as in The Guardian as a Poem of the Week. He has also received a Hawthornden Fellowship.

Susan Hamlyn has published two collections of poetry, The Only Thing Untouched (Flarestack, 2000) and Quiet Myth (Mattock Press, 2000). Her poems have appeared widely in journals and anthologies. She lives in London.

Mary Stewart Hammond is an American poet. Her first collection Out of Canaan was published in 1993 and her most recent Entering History (which chronicles a long marriage) in 2016. She teaches poetry Masterclasses in New York where she lives.

Jenny Hancock is a painter and printmaker living in rural Cheshire. Her work reflects her love of plants, wildlife the garden and the changing seasons. Both her paintings and linocut prints have a bold use of colour and feature the flora and fauna from her own garden, the surrounding countryside and her visits to many inspirational gardens.