Artists

Alison Cooke

Alison Cooke is a ceramic artist. She works site responsively with clay dug from interventions such as mining, scientific research or construction.

Hannah Marshall

Hannah Marshall is a musician, sound designer & performer.

Horatio Clare

Revealing the unseen history of Essex and the south-east. Explore, Examine, Enlighten.

James Piers Taylor

James Piers Taylor is a bioregional activist based on the Dengie peninsula of Essex.

Sadie Hennessy

Sadie Hennessy is a multi-disciplinary artist creating immersive environments and events.

Sasha Dugdale

Sasha Dugdale has published five collections of poems with Carcanet, most recently Deformations in 2020.

Lee Rourke

Lee Rourke is the author of the short-story collection Everyday, the novel The Canal (winner of the Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize 2010) and the poetry collection Varroa Destructor.

Mimi Khalvati has published nine poetry collections with Carcanet Press, including The Meanest Flower, shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize 2007, and Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation

Harun Morrison

Artist and writer currently living on a narrow boat on Regent’s Canal.

Will Birch

Will Birch is a writer and lyricist, drummer and songwriter with the Kursaal Flyers and The Records, author of No Sleep Till Canvey Island - The Great Pub Rock Revolution and Ian Dury - The…

Dirish Shaktidas

Dirish is a London based yoga teacher, immersed in the world of holistic healing.

Maggie Harris

Maggie Harris is a poet, prose writer, and visual artist. Originally from Guyana, she lived in Wales before relocating to Thanet, Kent.

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