Ahren Warner was born in 1986 and grew up in Lincolnshire. He lived in Paris whilst writing his doctorate and now lives in London. His first collection, Confer (Bloodaxe Books, 2011), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2013. He was awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 2010 and an Arts Foundation Fellowship in 2012. His second collection, Pretty (Bloodaxe Books, 2013) is another Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He is poetry editor of Poetry London.

Joseph Watson, father of Robert Spence Watson. A solicitor of literary ambition, Joseph Watson served as the northern secretary of the Anti-Corn Law League and was a Quaker.

Watson was one of the founders of the Durham College of Physical Science, and President of Armstrong College.

Anthony Watts has had poems published in magazines and anthologies in addition to four published collections. He has won the Lake Aske Memorial Award 1978, the Michael Johnson Memorial Prize 1979, the S.T. Coleridge Memorial Poetry Prize 2008 and first prizes in competitions run by Rotherham Metro Writers (2001), Preston Writers Guild (2001 & 2002), Christchurch Writers (1993, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2007), Norwich Writers (2008), East Coker Poetry Group (2008) and Dillington Poets (1994), Mungrisedale Writers (2013), Poetry Space (2013) and Somerset Libraries (2013). He was also a runner up in the 1982 Arvon Foundation Competition. His poems have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and Somerset Sound.