Lydia Towsey – Poet/Performer Lydia Towsey is the chair of the rethinkyourmind poetry assessor panel. She is a poet and performer with a Masters in Creative Writing. More…
Moniza Alvi was born in Pakistan and grew up in Hertfordshire. After working for many years as a secondary school teacher in London, she is now a freelance writer and tutor, and lives in Wymondham, Norfolk with her husband and daughter.
Jean Breese stage name Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze was born in Jamaica and came to England in the 1980s. She is an internationally renowned poet and playwright and has shaped a voice that demands attention and response.
Adam Horovitz was born in London in 1971, and moved to Slad, Gloucestershire the same year. His debut collection, Turning, was released by Headland in 2011 and his most recent book, A Thousand Laurie Lees, was published by the History Press in 2014.
Helen Ivory is a poet and assemblage artist. Her fourth Bloodaxe Books collection is the semi-autobiographical Waiting for Bluebeard (May 2013). She has co-edited with George Szirtes In Their Own Words: Contemporary Poets on their Poetry Salt 2012.
For the last decade, Russell Thompson has worked for Apples and Snakes, England’s leading organisation devoted specifically to the advancement of live poetry.
