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Mendoza is a Northumbrian poet and researcher. They describe their creative practice as ‘frass’, from the German word fressen, which means "to devour"; collecting, hoarding and (metaphorically) consuming found entomological texts, they reconstitute these texts as poetry, mapping the world through their own embodied language in which familiar and unfamiliar terrain is disrupted. In doing so, they are liberated from neurotypical modes of thinking, de-constructing & (re)constructing the ‘self’ through the language of insects as a necessary act of nonconformity. Publications include: “WINDSUCKERS & ONSETTERS: SONNOTS for Griffiths” collaboration with Peter Manson: Materials, 2018; “the science of poetry : the poetry of science” Linus Slug / Peter Manson broadside, 2015 and “Type Specimen: An Observant Guide To Linus Slug”, Contraband, 2014. Mendoza’s poetry can be heard at the Archive of the Now.

Zoë Skoulding is a poet, performer, translator and literary critic with an interest in ecopoetics. Her sixth and latest collection of poems is A Marginal Sea (Carcanet Press, 2022), shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, following Footnotes to Water (2019), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and won the Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2020. In 2020 she also published A Revolutionary Calendar (Shearsman). She received the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 2018 for her body of work in poetry. She is Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at Bangor University and lives on Ynys Môn / Anglesey.

Harriet Tarlo’s poetry is published with Shearsman Press, Etruscan books and Guillemot Press. She collaborated for over ten years with the artist Judith Tucker, exhibiting widely here and abroad and publishing five artists’ books with Wild Pansy Press. Her most recent publications are Cut Flowers I and II (2021, 2024); with Judith Tucker, Saltwort (2022) and with Kym Martindale, Spillways (2022). She edited the influential anthology The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman, 2011). She is a Professor of Ecopoetry and Poetics at ��«Ӱҵ Hallam University.

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