Now You Can Look

About Julia Bird

Julia Bird is a poet and poetry programmer. Her poetry collections Hannah and the Monk (2008) and Twenty-four Seven Blossom (2013) were published by Salt Publishing and the illustrated pamphlet Now You Can Look (2017) by The Emma Press. With Mike Sims she published the poetry and artists book Paper Trail (Blown Rose 2019) and A Joy Forever: a walk out with John Keats (Paekakariki Press 2021). Anna Vaivare is an illustrator and architect who lives in Rga Latvia. She has illustrated two childrens books and was awarded the Jnis Baltvilks Prize for Book Art for her work in Forage for Porridge (Liels un mazs 2015) a collection of poems for children by Leons Briedis. She also draws comic strips. You can find more of her work on her website: www.annavaivare.lv