Nottingham Contemporary

J. R. Carpenter is an artist, writer, and researcher working across performance, print, and digital media. Her web-based poetry work The Gathering Cloud won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. Her poetry collection An Ocean of Static was highly commended by the Forward Prizes 2018. Her most recent collection This is a Picture of Wind, is based on a web-app of the same name. Carpenter is a fellow of the Eccles Centre at the British Library and the Moore Institute at NUI Galway. She is currently Writer in Residence at the University of Alberta September 2020 - May 2021.

Rowan Evans is a poet, composer and sound artist whose most recent chapbooks are The Last Verses of Beccán (2019), which won the Michael Marks Award for Poetry 2019, and cante jondo mixtape (2017). He received an Eric Gregory Award in 2015 and a selection of his work appears in Penguin Modern Poets 7: These Hard and Shining Things (2018). Rowan is editor of Moot Press and artistic co-director of the performance company FEN. He is currently undertaking practice-based PhD research in modern poetry and early medieval language at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Vicky Sparrow is a Nottingham-based poet, teacher and researcher specialising in poetics. She currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Nottingham, and edits reviews for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. She holds a PhD on the poet-activist Anna Mendelssohn and was recently a fellow at the Wellcome Trust, researching the intersections between poetry and therapy. Sparrow’s poems can be found in Front Horse, Writing Utopia, datableed, Litmus and elsewhere. Her debut poetry pamphlet Notes to Selves (2016) is published by Zarf Editions.

Jack Thacker is Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Critical Poetics at NTU, where he supports the Critical Poetics Research Group. His poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including PN Review, Stand, Blackbox Manifold, The Clearing and Caught by the River, as well as on BBC Radio 4. In 2016, he won the Charles Causley International Poetry Competition. He has been the poet in residence at the Museum of English Rural Life and more recently the ArtfulScribe writer in residence at Lighthouse, Poole. His debut poetry pamphlet Handling (2018) is published by Two Rivers Press.