Poetry Launch: Patrick James Errington and friends

Patrick James Errington Author

Patrick James Errington is a multi-award-winning poet, translator, and academic. He is the author of the chapbooks Glean (2018) and Field Studies (2019) and the collection, the swailing, out now with McGill-Queens University Press. His poems have been published widely in anthologies and journals and have received numerous awards, including the Poetry International Prize, the London Magazine Prize, the National Poetry Competition, the Callan Gordon Award from the Scottish Book Trust, and the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award from the Writers Trust of Canada. His works in translation, meanwhile, include a translation into French of singer-songwriter PJ Harvey’s The Hollow of the Hand, and English translations of French-Algerian poet and painter Hamid Tibouchi (forthcoming with Broken Sleep Books) of French-Romanian Philosopher E.M. Cioran (forthcoming from New York Review Books). Originally from Alberta, Canada, Patrick now lives in Scotland where he researches poetic theory and neuroaesthetics and teaches creative writing at the University of Edinburgh.

Rosa Campbell Author

Rosa Campbell is an Associate Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature at the University of St Andrews, specialising in twentieth and twenty-first century poetry, especially by women and queer writers. She is also a writer; her poetry has appeared in various places, including Oxford Poetry, fourteen poems, Perverse, Ambit, Gutter and SPAM, and her first book, Pothos—a (sort-of) memoir about grief and houseplants—was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2021.

Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo Author

Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. Capildeo's eight books and eight pamphlets include Like a Tree, Walking (Carcanet, November 2021) and The Dusty Angel (Oystercatcher, 2021). Their interests include plurilingualism, traditional masquerade, and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Helena Fornells Nadal Author

Helena Fornells Nadal is a Catalan poet based in Edinburgh. She works as a bookseller and in her free time she's learning to work with ceramics. Her work has appeared in various publications including The Interpreter’s House, DATABLEED, Gutter, Magma, and New Writing Scotland, and she is a winner of the Scottish Book Trust New Writer’s Award.