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Ailbhe Darcy Editor & Author

Ailbhe Darcy is Senior Lecturer in creative writing at Cardiff University and the author of Imaginary Menagerie (2011), Subcritical Tests (2017), in collaboration with S. J. Fowler, and Insistence (2018), which won Wales Book of the Year, the Roland Mathias Poetry Award and the Pigott Prize for Poetry, Ireland's largest poetry prize, and was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award and the T. S. Eliot Prize. David Wheatley is a reader in English and Creative Writing at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of Contemporary British Poetry (Palgrave, 2015), and five collections of poetry, including The President of Planet Earth (Carcanet, 2017). Among the awards David has won are the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and the Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize.