» Paul Casey's poems have recently appeared in Local Wonders (Dedalus) and in The Irish Times. His second collection Virtual Tides was published by Salmon in 2016. It followed home more or less (Salmon, 2012), and a chapbook, it's not all bad (Heaventree, 2009). His work has been published widely in international journals and anthologies, and has been translated into Romanian, Italian, Chinese and Galician. He edited A Journey called Home (Cork City Libraries, 2018), an anthology of poems and stories from immigrant writers in 20 languages, including translations. He teaches creative writing, curates the Unfinished Book of Poetry for teenage writers and he has promoted poetry in his role as director of Ó Bhéal since 2007.

» Matthew Geden was born and brought up in the English Midlands, moving to Kinsale, Co Cork, in 1990. His full-length collections are Swimming to Albania (Bradshaw Books, 2009), The Place Inside (Dedalus Press, 2012) and most recently The Cloud Architect (Doire Press, 2022). Other publications include Kinsale Poems (Lapwing, 2001), Fruit (Survision Books, 2020) and Ocean of Earth: Selected Poems of Guillaume Apollinaire (SurVision Books, 2024). In November 2019 he was Writer in Residence at Nanjing Literature Centre, China and held the same position for Cork County Library and Arts Service from 2020-2023.

» Cornelia Gräbner is a Senior Lecturer in Hispanic Studies and Comparative Literature at Lancaster University. She received a PhD from the University of Amsterdam for a dissertation on the performance of poetry and political commitment. She has published on the poetry performance and resistance literature in Europe and the Americas, including the edited collection Performing Poetry: Body, Place and Rhythm in the Poetry Performance (with Arturo Casas) and co-edited special issues on "The Poetics of Resistance," "Poetry in Public Spaces," and most recently, a special issue of Critical Comparative Studies on "Against the Grain: Dissent, Opposition and La parola contraria in Literature, Politics and the Arts" (with Joost de Bloois and Jim Hicks).

» Mary Noonan taught French literature at University College Cork over a period of thirty years. Her first collection, The Fado House (Dedalus Press, 2012) was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize and the Strong/Shine Award. A limited edition pamphlet – Father – was published by Bonnefant Press (NL) in 2015. Her second collection, Stone Girl (Dedalus Press, 2019) was shortlisted for the Derek Walcott International Poetry Prize in 2020. Dans un autre compartiment, a selection of her poems translated to French by poet Valérie Rouzeau, will be published by Apic Editions (Alger) in 2025.

» Greg Quiery is originally from County Down, Ireland, and has lived in Liverpool since the early 1970s. Since retiring from his position as a head teacher, he has written In Hardship And Hope (G and K, 2017), a detailed history of the Liverpool Irish. He has published two poetry collections, A Stray Dog Following (Stairwell Books, 2020) and Oglet (XXXX). The former observes and poeticizes everyday social relations and occurrences. The latter celebrates the wildlife on the edges of urban Liverpool and alerts us to the threat to this precious environment. His poems have featured in Talk and Tongue on Radio 4, on Radio Merseyside and in the Quality of Mersey anthology. They have been celebrated for the attentiveness to the poetic qualities of everyday speech, expression and place, for their musicality, and for the poet's principled and compassionate approach.

» Eleanor Rees lives on the Wirral peninsula on Merseyside, UK. She is a poet, senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool Hope University, has extensively worked as a poet in communities with The Windows Project, and regularly gives public readings at festivals and literary events. In her PhD thesis 'Making Connections: The Work of the Local Poet' (Exeter, 2014) she explored the relationship between the poet, place, and community. Her poetry collections include Portents and Portals: New and Selected Poems (Guillemot Press, 2024), Tam Lin of the Winter Park (Guillemot Press, 2022), The Well at Winter Solstice (Salt, 2019, Northern Writers Award 2018), Blood Child (Pavilion, 2015), Eliza and the Bear (Salt, 2009) and Andraste's Hair (Salt, 2007, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, UK, and the Irish Glen Dimplex New Writers' Award). A collection of essays Eyes in the Wood: Encounters with Poiesis (collected theoretical and lyric essays) is forthcoming from Broken Sleep, 2025. Her pamphlet collection Feeding Fire (Spout, 2001) received an Eric Gregory Award in 2002. Selections of Eleanor's poems have been translated and published in pamphlets and anthologies in French, Spanish, German, Lithuanian, Slovak and Romanian.