Four Poets
Join us for a dazzling line-up of poets who will be reading and discussing their work. Email us an idea/theme, and one of our poets will write a poem on that theme that they will perform at the event (events@ylbooks.co.uk).
Martha Sprackland is a writer, editor and translator. Previously an editor for Faber and Unbound, her collection Citadel was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and the Costa Poetry Prize. She is a tutor for Arvon and a mentor for the Women Poets’ Prize. She is translating the poems of sixteenth-century Spanish mystic St John of the Cross for Penguin Classics.
Declan Ryan’s first collection, Crisis Actor, was published by Faber in 2023. His essays and reviews have appeared in many journals, including the New York Review of Books, the Guardian, the Observer, the TLS, and Boxing News.
Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and comic book writer. Her writing has been featured on BBC radio and television, and her full poetry collections are Bear and Low, both from Bloodaxe. She edits the poetry magazine Perverse.
Will Burns was a Faber New Poet in 2014 and his first full collection, Country Music, was published with Offord Road Books in 2020, and his debut novel, The Paper Lantern, was published in 2021, after which he was named one of the Observer’s Top 10 Debut Novelists of that year.
