Wretched Strangers: Writing Against Brexit

About the Book

Arranged against surges in violent British nationalism and political panic around borders, and related/growing crises of culture and politics, this is an anthology to mark and celebrate the contribution of non-UK-born writers to this country’s poetry culture, published on the 2nd anniversary of the UK’s referendum on membership of the European Union.

About the Author :
Tim Atkins is an internationally-published and reviewed poet and translator. He is the author of many volumes, including To Repel Ghosts, 1001 Sonnets, and Horace. His 600-page Petrarch Collected Atkins was a Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2014, and was a selected book of the year on the widely-read American literary site Salon.com . Folklore was one of the Daily Telegraph’s poetry books of the year for 2008. His work has been anthologised in The Reality Street Book of Sonnets, Faber’s The Thunder Mutters, and Foil. Since 2000, he has been editor of the online poetry journal onedit, which was selected by The British Library as one of the key poetry websites in its poetry archive. In 2013, he was a member of the summer faculty at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Other projects include the creation of a sound installation for the Science Museum’s Exponential Horn show: this was also broadcast on Resonance FM. His play The World's Furious Song Flows Through My Skirt was performed at the PolyPly Innovative Writing series and was published by Stoma in June 2014. A celebration of his work at which 24 writers read took place at The Rich Mix Arts Centre in East London in July 2014. A film collaboration with Graeme Maguire, Mother, was a finalist at the Rabbit Heart Poetry Festival. His work has been translated into Latvian, Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, and Catalan. A novel, The Bath-Tub, is due out from Boiler House in 2018. Ben Borek grew up in South London. He has lived in Warsaw for several years and has read his work all over Europe. Emily Critchley has poetry collections with Barque, Intercapillary, Corrupt, Holdfire, Torque, Oystercatcher, Dusie, Bad and Arehouse presses and a selected writing: Love / All That / & OK (Penned in the Margins, 2011). She has also published critical articles on poetry, philosophy and feminism and is the editor of Out of Everywhere 2: Linguistically Innovative Poetry by Women in North America & the UK (Reality Street, 2016). Critchley is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, London. Jeff Hilson wrote stretchers (Reality Street 2006), Bird bird (Landfill 2009) and In The Assarts (Veer 2010). He also edited The Reality Street Book of Sonnets (Reality Street 2008). He runs Xing the Line reading series in London and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton. Nat Raha is a poet and trans / queer activist, living in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her previous collections of poetry are countersonnets (Contraband Books, 2013) and Octet (Veer Books, 2010). Nat is co-editor of the Radical Transfeminism zine, and is completing a PhD on queer Marxism and contemporary poetry at the University of Sussex.