Roger Robinson has represented British writing world-wide, at venues such as the Crossing Border Festival (Amsterdam), Institute of Contemporary Arts, Literatur Forum (Hannover), Barcelona University and New Jersey Performance Arts Centre. A leading light in the London spoken word scene and a former member of Urban Poets Society (UPS) and Chocolate Art, he has opened for Run DMC and De La Soul. He was chosen for the New Generation Poets exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Roger has facilitated workshops and lectures on poetry at the Arvon Foundation, Oval House Theatre, Greenwich International Festival, the London Poetry Festival and numerous schools and colleges. His book of short fiction Adventures in 3D was launched at the Barbican Centre on July 2002.

Pascale Petit was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales and lives in London. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art. In 2004 she was selected as one of the Next Generation Poets. Her second collection, The Zoo Father (Seren, 2001), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and was a Book of the Year in The Independent and Times Literary Supplement. It won an Arts Council of England Writers' Award, a New London Writers' Award, and a poem from the book was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. A Spanish/English bilingual edition is forthcoming from Ediciones El Tucán de Virginia, Mexico City. Her first collection was Heart of a Deer (Enitharmon, 1998). Seren publish her third collection, The Huntress, in spring 2005. She is Poetry Editor of Poetry London and co-edited Tying the Song, the first Poetry School anthology. "A blazing new arrival" Boyd Tonkin - The Independent.

As a poet and writer of monologues, Jacob Sam-La Rose presents subtly rendered life stories, detailing the beauty of everyday incidents and happenings through crafted poetry and prose. He has performed at a broad range of literature and arts festivals, including The URB festival 2002 (Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki), The Word: London Festival of Literature 2001 (the Underglobe, London), the Bay Lit festival 2002 (Cardiff), Soho Theatre (London), the Royal Festival Hall (London), the Jazz Café (London), and Victoria Theatre (Greece).

Todd Swift's soundscapes and poems, as part of the Swifty Lazarus duo (with musician Tom Walsh) have been featured on the CBC and ABC and RTE in Ireland, and on the CD Millennium Cabaret. Swift's ground-breaking anthology, edited with Regie Cabico, Poetry Nation (Véhicule Press, 1998; now in its second edition) has introduced a whole new generation of North American poets who fuse the stage and the page. He is co-founder of the legendary Vox Hunt cabaret series which brought slam to Canada in the early '90s. Swift's first book of highly-acclaimed poems is Budavox: poems 1990-1999 (DC Books, 1999). A CD with Tom Walsh, The Envelope, Please, is forthcoming summer 2001 from WOW. He co-edited Short Fuse: An Anthology of New Fusion Poetry.