More information coming soon.
Samatar Elmi is an award-winning poet musician. His debut collection The Epic of Cader Idris (Bloomsbury, 2024) received excellent reviews, and he is a Winner of the 2021 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for the poem ‘The Snail.’ His debut pamphlet, Portrait of Colossus (flipped eye press, 2021), was selected as a PBS Pamphlet Choice. His poems have appeared in Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, Magma, Poetry Wales, Iota and anthologised in More Fiya, Filigree, After Plath, and The Echoing Gallery. Elmi has performed at Laugharne Festival, Latitude Festival, London Literature Festival, Somali Week, Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Cheltenham Poetry Festival, Poetry Society, Serpentine Gallery, Southbank Centre, Cardiff Millennium Centre, Oxford House, Whitechapel Gallery and Rich Mix. As Knomad Spock, he has released the albums Winter of Discontent, A Darker Light and Through the Walls to critical acclaim. He has also rapped on records with UK hiphop legends Chester P and Jehst, and released Preludes under the moniker Nomad.
Sam Telford is a poet living and working in Newcastle upon Tyne. He left school at fifteen with no formal qualifications to start work at the Post Office. He has since carved an unconventional path into literature. His work is marked by a colloquial register and direct style shaped by the British Poetry Revival and American Black Mountain poets. Recurring concerns include urban life and its contrast to the pastoral, overheard speech, philosophy and the act of writing itself. He is the author of four collections of poetry; Back to the Bridge, Tabbash!, Newcassel from Kulvert, and A Dream Of The Sea from Cob Editions. His collaborative works include Hotel Lobby with Mark Wright, Hua! Hua! Hua! with Joel Everett, and 26 Poems for Cash with Samatar Elmi. His poetry has appeared with numerous small presses and he has performed poetry across the UK and Europe.
KV21
ISBN 9781917998116
74 pp.
A6 pocket paperback.
Printed on fully recycled paper.
