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Clarinda Harriss is an American poet and fiction writer. She has published nine books including her poetry collection Innumerable Moons (Beignet Books, 2019) which explores the years she spent caring for an Alzheimer’s sufferer. She is Professor Emerita at Towson University near Baltimore and continues to run independent publisher Brickhouse Books which she co-founded in the 1970s.

Celia Hart studied illustration and design at Brighton College of Art and Design and has worked as a freelance illustrator since 1991. She lives and works in a small village in Suffolk, creating block prints and designs inspired by the East Anglian landscape. Her prints of animals, birds and gardens are hand-printed using traditional techniques, inspired by Japanese and Chinese printmakers and the English tradition of the illustrative print.

David Hart (1940 – 2022) was a poet who grew up in rural Wales but lived for most of his life in Birmingham. He won several major prizes, including the National Poetry Competition in 1994 and was Poet in Residence at Worcester Cathedral in 1998-99. His collection Library Inspector was published by Nine Arches Press in 2015.

Michael Hartnett (1941 – 1999) is one of Ireland’s best-loved poets. His first collection, Anatomy of a Cliché, was published while he was still in his twenties. He wrote in both Irish and English and also translated a number of medieval Irish poets into English. He won numerous awards, including the Irish Poetry Prize, a Poetry Ireland Choice Award and the American Ireland Fund Award. His Collected Poems are published by The Gallery Press.

Robert Hass is a poet, critic and translator. He was born in San Francisco and is one of America’s most widely-read poets. His first collection Field Guide (1973) immediately established him as an important voice and was US Poet Laureate from 1995 – 1997. His most recent collection is The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems, (Ecco Press, New York 2011).

Geoff Hattersley (1956 – 2024) lived in Yorkshire. His poetry collections include Don’t Worry (Bloodaxe, 1994) which was praised for its tragi-comic portrayals of lives in the post-industrial landscape of South Yorkshire. Between 1986 and 1998 he edited the Wide Skirt literary journal with his wife Jeanette, publishing more than 300 writers, many for the first time.