Primers Volume Six

About Estelle PriceFathima ZahraKym Deyn

Rishi Dastidars poetry has been published by the Financial Times and BBC amongst many others. He is a fellow of The Complete Works and a consulting editor at The Rialto magazine. A poem from his debut collection Ticker-tape was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2018 and his second collection Saffron Jack was published in the UK by Nine Arches Press in 2020. He is also editor of The Craft: A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century (Nine Arches Press) and co-editor of Too Young Too Loud Too Different: Poems from Malikas Poetry Kitchen (Corsair). Jane Commane is a poet editor and publisher. Her first full-length collection Assembly Lines was published by Bloodaxe in 2018. A graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme for a decade she also worked in museums and archives and in 2016 she was chosen to join Writing West Midlands Room 204 writer development programme Jane is editor at Nine Arches Press co-editor of Under the Radar magazine and is co-author with Jo Bell of How to Be a Poet a creative writing handbook (Nine Arches Press).In 2017 she was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. In 2019 Jane was commissioned by Historic England and the Poetry Society as part of the Where Light Falls project to write a poem alongside community groups which was projected onto the ruins of Coventry Cathedral and viewed by over 15000 people over three nights as part of a music poetry and light installation. Kym Deyn is a poet playwright and fortune teller. They have a Legitimate Snack forthcoming with Broken Sleep Books as well as work in Carcanets Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology. Otherwise they have been widely published in a range of anthologies and journals including Butcher's Dog and the Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry. They are one of the winners of the 2020 Outspoken Prize for Poetry. Estelle Price is the winner of the 2021 Welsh Poetry Competition and the 2018 Book of Kells Writing Competition. Her poetry has been placed/ listed in the National Bridport Welshpool London Magazine and other competitions. Poems have left home for Poetry Wales Crannog Marble Poetry 14 Lines Alchemy Spoon and the Stony Thursday Book. Before she knew she was a poet she was a lawyer a classicist a charity worker Fathima Zahra is an Indian poet and performer based in Essex. She is a Barbican Young Poet and a Roundhouse Poetry Collective alum. Her poems have won the Bridport Prize Asia House Poetry Slam and Wells Fest Young Poets Prize. Her debut pamphlet Sargam / Swargam is out with ignitionpress.