Tom Denbigh is a Bristol-based poet and playwright. Exploring the queer experience alongside tales of friends and strangers, Tom’s writing toys with myth, devilish humour and absurdity to portray the bizarre and brilliant in normal life.

He is a producer at Milk Poetry, a BBC1Xtra Words First winner and has facilitated writing workshops for groups of students from the UK and abroad. Outside of poetry Tom has a PhD on plant roots and soil erosion. His first collection …and then she ate him is published with Burning Eye Books.

“… surrealism and spirituality go hand in hand with stark poems of the body and sexuality. Denbigh has a unique ability to weave narrative and humour through expansive poems which reframe and reconsider the everyday.”

Andrew Mcmillan

“A Tom Denbigh poem is a perfectly twisted fairytale. His precise, playful confidence, intrepid warps in language and acerbic imagination will make you realise your head and heart have been tugged into an adventure far from home.”

Jasmine Gardosi

‘Iman Sultan West is an artist, poet and cultural practitioner based in Bristol exploring how community can be bought together through expression and curiosity. Their poetry uses humour and rhythm to connect with heritage, neurodiversity, mental health and resistance.

Currently working as a freelance provenance researcher for natural history, Iman entangles reparative justice and an engrossed obsession with words to facilitate their annual Poetry Course with Shiiku Community.’