Danish poet, novelist, essayist and editor.

Polly Clark was born in Toronto in 1968 and brought up in Lancashire, Cumbria and the Borders of Scotland. She has worked variously as a zookeeper, a teacher of English in Hungary and in publishing at Oxford University Press. In 1997 she won an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry. Her first collection, Kiss (Bloodaxe Books, 2000), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her second, Take Me With You (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), a Poetry Book Society Choice, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Farewell My Lovely (Bloodaxe Books, 2009) is her third collection. She has also published short stories. Polly now lives on the West Coast of Scotland and is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Edinburgh University.

Killarney Clary is an American poet who was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.Her first book, Who Whispered Near Me, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Clary received the Lannan Literary Award in 1992.

Brendan Cleary lives in exile from Co. Antrim in Newcastle, where he edited and survived The Echo Room. He works as a part-time lecturer, performance poet and stand-up comic, and has appeared several times on the Mark Radcliffe Show on Radio One. His last book-length collection, The Irish Card, was published by Bloodaxe in 1993.