Battalion

About

Jon Stone is a Derbyshire-born writer editor and researcher. He won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award in 2012 and his collection School of Forgery (Salt 2012) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. As well as writing several shorter poetry books and co-editing a number of collaborative anthologies with Sidekick Books he has published a monograph Dual Wield: The Interplay of Poetry and Videogames (DeGruyter 2022). He teaches writing and publishing at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. Kirsten Irving is a Lincolnshire-born London-based poet and voiceover and one half of the team behind collaborative press Sidekick Books. Her work has been published by Salt and Happenstance widely anthologised and thrown out of a helicopter. She has won the Live Canon International Poetry Prize judged competitions and taught courses on folklore in poetry. Kirsten's latest collection Hot Cockalorum was published in 2022 by Guillemot Press.