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Jane Draycott Editor, Translator & Author

Peter Robinson has published aphorisms, short stories, various works of literary criticism and a novel, and has been awarded the Cheltenham Prize, the John Florio Prize and two PBS Recommendations for some of his books of poetry and translation. He is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Reading and poetry editor for Two Rivers Press. Jane Draycott's collections include The Occupant (Carcanet, a PBS 2016 Recommendation), Over (TS Eliot Prize shortlist 2009), and Prince Rupert's Drop (Forward Poetry Prize shortlist 1999). Her translation of the medieval elegy Pearl (2011) was a Times Stephen Spender Prize-winner. Work from her Two Rivers Press collection Tideway (2002, illustrations by Peter Hay) was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.Carolyn Leder is a recognised scholar on Stanley Spencer, a long-standing Trustee of the Stanley Spencer Gallery, and Consultant to three volumes of Spencer writings, edited by John Spencer 2016-18. She is in Who's Who in Art, and is regularly consulted on Spencer by Sotheby's. Her publications include a book on Spencer's Scrapbook drawings and numerous exhibition catalogues.