Jo Clement is a poet and interdisciplinary maker based in Newcastle. Winning the Northern Writer’s Award she teaches Creative Writing at Northumbria University and is also the managing editor of Butcher’s Dog which was voted ‘Best Poetry Magazine’ in the Saboteur Awards. Her debut work Outlandish was received with high acclaim and confronts Romantic impressions of British Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller ethnicity. She holds an alumnus of Newcastle University’s Creative Writing PhD.

Roy McFarlane is a poet, playwright and former youth and community worker born in Birmingham of Jamaican parentage. He has held the roles of National Canal Laureate and Starbucks Poet in Residence and is the co-editor of Celebrate Wha? Ten Black British Poets from the Midlands. His debut collection, Beginning With Your Last Breath, was followed by The Healing Next Time, which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes award and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. McFarlane is an alumnus of Newcastle University’s MA in Writing Poetry.

Tara Bergin is Senior Lecturer in Writing Poetry (Creative Writing) at Newcastle University.

This event took place in the Culture Lab on the 21st of November 2024.