Brum Radio Poets with Rick Sanders (Willis the Poet) March (26/03/2023)

Iona Mandal

Iona has recently been appointed the role as Birmingham Young Poet Laureate, allowing her to connect with young people and work on dissolving the myth surrounding poetry being boring and elitist.
Iona hopes to uplift South Asian and minority voices in literature

Rob Francis

R. M. Francis is a lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Wolverhampton. His novels, Bella and The Wrenna were published with Wild Pressed Books and his poetry collection, Subsidence, came out with Smokestack Books.
His book of poems, essays and fieldnotes, The Chain Coral Chorus, is out with Play Dead Press in March 2023

Liz Berry

Liz Berry's debut collection, Black Country, won a Somerset Maugham Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and the Forward Prize
Her new book, The Home Child, reimagines the story of her great-aunt Eliza Showell, one of the many children forcibly emigrated to Canada as part of the British Child Migrant schemes.