Showcase with Rebecca Goss, Lydia Unsworth, Ginny Darke & Eleanor Rees. Held at Holy Trinity Church TBC?. Chair: Andrew Hykel Mears.
Rebecca Goss is the author of four collections, most recently Latch (Carcanet, 2023). She works as a poetry mentor, is a Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund and is current Writer-in-Residence for CW+, the official charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Instagram @gosspoems
Lydia Unsworth is a poet based in Greater Manchester, UK. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Oxford Poetry and Shearsman Magazine. She is an NWCDTP-funded PhD candidate at the Centre for Place Writing, MMU, looking at kinship with disappearing post-industrial architecture. Her latest collections are Stay Awhile (KFS Press) and This Now Extends to My Daughter (Blue Diode).
Ginny Darke is a Welsh poet based in Bristol, England. Her writing has been published with The Stinging Fly, Tenement Press, Magna, WORMS and Basket Magazine, amongst others. She was shortlisted for the Poetry Wales Award 2024-25 and was a Foyle Young Poet. Her debut pamphlet, Poison Centre, is forthcoming with if a leaf falls press.
Eleanor Rees writes with places and edgelands in Merseyside, North Wales and beyond. Eleanor also has family connections to Oxfordshire. She is currently working on a sixth collection River Town written with Birkenhead and the Wirral Pennisula. She has worked widely as a local poet. Portents and Portals: New & Selected Poems spans three decades, five collections and several pamphlets. It follows Tam Lin of the Winter Park (Guillemot, 2022), The Well at Winter Solstice (Salt, 2019), Blood Child (Pavilion, 2015), Eliza and the Bear (Salt, 2009), and Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Eleanor is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, a Northern Writers’ Award, and is senior lecturer in creative writing at Liverpool Hope University.
Andrew Hykel Mears is a poet, editor/publisher and musician based in Bristol. His work has appeared in PN Review, Poetry Birmingham, Propel, Gilded Dirt, and Berlin Lit, among others. His latest pamphlet is Rivering (Scarlett Tiger Press, 2026). He’s the founder/managing editor of Ambient Receiver, and editorial director of Bread and Roses Press. His doctoral research - Ambient Eco-Poetics: Ecological Attunement in the Posthuman Moment informs much of his writing. As a musician, he's composed for contemporary dance; performed live, improvised film soundtracks; and provided backing for Saul Williams, and Can’s Damo Suzuki. He was a founding member of the bands Youthmovies and Foals.
Showcase with Rebecca Goss, Lydia Unsworth, Ginny Darke & Eleanor Rees. Held at Holy Trinity Church TBC?. Chair: Andrew Hykel Mears.
Rebecca Goss is the author of four collections, most recently Latch (Carcanet, 2023). She works as a poetry mentor, is a Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund and is current Writer-in-Residence for CW+, the official charity of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Instagram @gosspoems
Lydia Unsworth is a poet based in Greater Manchester, UK. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Oxford Poetry and Shearsman Magazine. She is an NWCDTP-funded PhD candidate at the Centre for Place Writing, MMU, looking at kinship with disappearing post-industrial architecture. Her latest collections are Stay Awhile (KFS Press) and This Now Extends to My Daughter (Blue Diode).
Ginny Darke is a Welsh poet based in Bristol, England. Her writing has been published with The Stinging Fly, Tenement Press, Magna, WORMS and Basket Magazine, amongst others. She was shortlisted for the Poetry Wales Award 2024-25 and was a Foyle Young Poet. Her debut pamphlet, Poison Centre, is forthcoming with if a leaf falls press.
Eleanor Rees writes with places and edgelands in Merseyside, North Wales and beyond. Eleanor also has family connections to Oxfordshire. She is currently working on a sixth collection River Town written with Birkenhead and the Wirral Pennisula. She has worked widely as a local poet. Portents and Portals: New & Selected Poems spans three decades, five collections and several pamphlets. It follows Tam Lin of the Winter Park (Guillemot, 2022), The Well at Winter Solstice (Salt, 2019), Blood Child (Pavilion, 2015), Eliza and the Bear (Salt, 2009), and Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007), shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Eleanor is the recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, a Northern Writers’ Award, and is senior lecturer in creative writing at Liverpool Hope University.
Andrew Hykel Mears is a poet, editor/publisher and musician based in Bristol. His work has appeared in PN Review, Poetry Birmingham, Propel, Gilded Dirt, and Berlin Lit, among others. His latest pamphlet is Rivering (Scarlett Tiger Press, 2026). He’s the founder/managing editor of Ambient Receiver, and editorial director of Bread and Roses Press. His doctoral research - Ambient Eco-Poetics: Ecological Attunement in the Posthuman Moment informs much of his writing. As a musician, he's composed for contemporary dance; performed live, improvised film soundtracks; and provided backing for Saul Williams, and Can’s Damo Suzuki. He was a founding member of the bands Youthmovies and Foals.
