Malcolm Bradley graduated as a mature student at UCW Bangor, gaining a first class honours degree in English and winning the JF Danby scholarship prize for three years in succession. He has had work published in Poetry Wales,Scintilla, The Western Mail, Staple and numerous other journals. He is a twice winner of the Conwy Festival Poetry Competition, and was awarded a New Writer’s Bursary from the Welsh Arts Council in 1996.

Reinventing the Globe is a poetry collection published in 2000.

Patrick Brandon was born in London in 1965. He studied painting at Norwich School of Art, and exhibits regularly, most recently at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. In 2003 he was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize. A recipient of a New Writing Ventures bursary in 2006, he won the Essex Poetry Prize in 2005, and received commendations in the Wigtown Poetry Prize 2005, and in the National Poetry Competition 2007. A Republic of Linen (Bloodaxe Books, 2009) is his first book of poems. He lives in Bristol with his partner and two young children.

Kamau Brathwaite is the founder secretary of the Caribbean Artists Movement and editor of Savacou. He is Professor of Social and Cultural History at the University of the West Indies, and Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University.

Fran Brearton is lecturer in English at Queen’s University Belfast. Her study The Great War in Irish Poetrywas published by Oxford University Press in 2000, and she co-edited Last before America: Irish and American Writing (Blackstaff, 2001). She was the 2004 British Academy Chatterton Lecturer on English Poetry.

Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze is a poet, actress, dancer, choreographer, film writer and theatre director. She has released five poetry books, Riddym Ravings (Race Today), Spring Cleaning (Virago), and On the Edge of an Island, The Arrival of Brighteye and The Fifth Figure (all Bloodaxe), as well as several records and CDs, including Tracks with the Dennis Bovell Dub Band and Riding On De Riddym: selected spoken works (57 Productions). Third World Girl: Selected Poems (with DVD) is published by Bloodaxe in 2011. She has performed her work throughout the world, including tours of the Caribbean, North America, Europe, South East Asia and Africa, and now divides her time between Jamaica and Leicester. She received a NESTA Award in 2003.