Ken Cockburn:  is a poet and translator based in Edinburgh, where he runs Edinburgh Poetry Tours, guided walks in the city’s Old Town. He has collaborated with visual artists on book, exhibition and public art projects, including River Connections with sculptor Mary Bourne, for the redeveloped Inverness riverside. With Alec Finlay, he undertook The Road North, a journey around Scotland guided by the 17th century Japanese poet Basho, which led to an extensive blog, an exhibition, and a jointly–composed long poem published in book form. https://kencockburn.co.uk/

Jim Carruth:  is the current Glasgow Poet Laureate and his first full collection, Killochries, published in 2015, was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year, the Seamus Heaney Centre For Poetry Prize, and the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize for first collection. He is founder and current chair of St Mungo’s  Mirrorball — the Glasgow poetry network — and artistic adviser for the St Anza poetry festival. His most recent collection Black Cart was published in 2017.

Niall Campbell:  is a poet from Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. His first UK book, Moontide, won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and Saltire First Book of the Year. In 2016, poems from Moontide were published in the US as part of the book First Nights.

Angus Peter Campbell:  (Aonghas Phàdraig Caimbeul) is from the island of South Uist. His first collection of poetry, The Greatest Gift, was reviewed by Sorley MacLean as ‘a masterpiece’.  His most recent collection, Aibisidh, won the Scottish Poetry Book of the Year Award in 2012. He has also published several novels, and earns his living as a journalist and actor.