Anne-Marie Fyfe, Tess Gallagher

Former Chair of the Poetry Society, Anne-Marie Fyfe has been awarded the Academi Cardiff International Poetry Prize and has organised the Coffee-House Poetry series of readings and workshops at London's Troubadour Coffee-House since 1997. Her new collection is House of Small Absences (Seren).

Tess Gallagher’s Midnight Lantern: New and Selected Poems, from Bloodaxe Press in England is her ninth volume of poetry. Most recently she has been involved in the film BIRDMAN with director Alejandro Inarritu, since it presents both a poem and a story from her late husband, Raymond Carver.