Maggie Brookes-Butt will be launching Wish: New and Selected Poems. Her other collections include Everlove (2021) and Degrees of Twilight (2015). Maggie is also a published novelist: Acts of Love and War (2022) and The Prisoner's Wife (2020).

Nancy Charley is a writer and Archivist for the Royal Asiatic Society in London. Her latest poetry collection is Grace Notes (June 2023). Other collections include Little Blue Hut (2017) and How Death Came Into the World (2020).

Kent poet Fiona Sinclair's published collections include Second Wind (2022); The Time Traveller's Picnic (2019); and A Talent for Hats (2017).

Melinda Walker is a poet and singer. Along with Fiona Sinclair and Nancy Charley she is a member of the group Birds of Paradise. She lives in Faversham.