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Nicky Melville is a poet, creative writing teacher, musician and occasional artist. For over twenty years, he has been developing a range of peripheral and small press publications in a variety of forms and genres: found poetry and erasures, visual poetry, lyric experiment, conceptual and post-conceptual writing, and a badge. His work takes aim at and interrogates the imperatives of capitalism, politics and ideology. Melville’s first book, selections and dissections (Otoliths Press, 2010) is a collection of visual poetry, and ABBODIES COLD : SPECTRE (Sad Press, 2020), explores the neoliberal and fascist elements of Brexit through the lens of ABBA songs, aliens and James Bond. A selected poems from 2010-20, Decacde of Cu ts, was published by Blue Diode Press in 2021 and Get Tae in 2026.

Vik Shirley is a poet, writer, editor, educator, visual artist and curator from Bristol, England, now living in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2025, Vik’s photo poetry collection, Persona Digitalia, was selected by PhotoWorks—in collaboration with David Solo and Jane and Jeremy—for the inaugural P5 series. Vik’s most recent publication is a collection of surreal prose poems, Some Deer (Broken Sleep, 2024), which was selected as January 2025 ‘Book of the Month’ in Gutter: Magazine of new Scottish and International of Writing. Other publications include Disrupted Blue and other poems on Polaroid, The Continued Closure of the Blue Door, and Corpses (among many more).

Colin Herd is a poet. His previous solo books and pamphlets include Like, Too Ok, Glovebox, Swamp Kiss, Click & Collect and You Name It. With S J Fowler he co-wrote Oberwilding - a book of poems on the work and life of Oskar Kokoschka. With Maria Sledmere, he co-wrote Cocoa & Nothing, a book of poems about Ritter Sport chocolate. He is also editor or co-editor of the anthologies Glasgow Cities, All Becomes Art I, All Becomes Art II and Edwin Morgan Centenary Collection. His own work has been anthologised in such collections as 100 Queer Poems, Fierce Salvage, Dear World and Everyone In It, Makar/Unmakar, Forward Prize Anthology 2014, and Be The First To Like This. He is currently at work on a novel in the form of 120 T Shirts.

Sara Mostafa is an Egyptian poet & writer based in London & Glasgow. In 2024, she was highly commended for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. She currently runs a writing group at Kentish Town called The NW Writing Group.

Claire Reynolds is a writer from Glasgow. She works across prose and poetry and at the moment her work reflects on sound and touch - how the sensory and emotion shape a soundscape around how we live, die and echo after death.
Claire co-hosts the podcast Let Them Eat Books & the reading series BUBLB! with Colin Herd.

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