Queering the Landscape: Contributors

Dale Booton (he/him) is a queer poet from Birmingham. His poetry is published by The North and Magma, and anthologised by Broken Sleep Books, Verve, Muswell Press, and Pan Macmillan. He has two pamphlets: ‘Walking Contagions’ (Polari Press) and ‘On This Stretch of Queerland’ (Fourteen Poems). He is a runner-up in the 2024 International Book and Pamphlet Competition. Twitter: @BootsPoetry

Troy Cabida is the author of Symmetric of Bone (fourteen poems, 2024) and War Dove (Bad Betty Press, 2020). His work appears in Seaford Review, bath magg, TLDTD Journal, 100 Queer Poems, and Tiffany & Co. His debut collection, Neon Manila, is forthcoming with Nine Arches Press in 2025.

Dr Lee Campbell is an artist, curator of queer film project Homo Humour, co-curator of POW! Play on Words (a regular spoken word platform in London) along with Colin B. Osborn and Senior Lecturer at University of the Arts London. He has performed extensively across the world since 2000 including solo performances for National Poetry Library, Brighton Fringe, Whitstable Biennale and Prague Biennale. He has been numerously interviewed by the BBC since 2008 including BBC Radio 4′s Midweek. Lee headlined Rhymes and Stitches in January 2025  and The Word Zoo in February 2025 and will be featured poet at Oxford Poetry Library and Big Trouble. Rochester later in 2025. His debut poetry collection ‘See Me: An (Almost) Autobiography’ was published by London Poetry Books in November 2024. Other publications of his poetry include The Atticus Review, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Otherwise, You Are Here – The Journal of Creative Geography, Queerlings, Streetcake. StepAway Magazine, London Grip and Flight of the DragonFly. His chapbook Queering the Landscape was shortlisted for the 2024 Broken Spine Chapbook Poetry Competition. His experimental performance poetry films have been selected for many international film festivals and prizes since 2019 including shortlisted for Best Poetry Film at the Out-Spoken Poetry Prize 2023, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London.

James Chantry is an artist and academic. He has exhibited internationally and is published in his field. His practice explores the links between the supernatural and queer identity. Utilising fragments of heritage, folklore and fictive material to form a symbiotic relationship. He produces film and installation work that incorporates: video, sculpture, performance, photography, sound, animation, drawing and found materials. In recent work the literary ghost story, mediumship and folklore are thematic frameworks, alongside specific geographic locations. In particular queering liminal wildernesses, such as fenland and the edge lands between city and countryside. James’s work is auto-ethnographic and explores performative embodiment. His aim is to create new worlds from the past that consider: queer kinship and alternative communities, in the context of queer futurity. @james.chantry

leon clowes is an artist of sonics, stories and socials having nuanced exchanges about the hidden and the haunted. Recent commissions/selections include Frieze, WORM Rotterdam, Festivalis Druskomanija, Disability Arts Online, Queer Art Projects, Ugly Duck Gallery, Crate Studio/Margate Pride, Datscha Radio (Berlin), Arts Letters & Numbers (New York), Queer Contemporaries and the following festivals: SUPERNORMAL, SPILL, CCA Glasgow’s Radiophrenia, Deptford X and Queercall. As a scholarship-supported London College of Music practice researcher, leon co-founded the Addiction Recovery Arts Network. He is also both a Multitrack and Churchill fellow and an Open School East Associate Artist (2022-2023).

Eliza Mary Coe is an aspiring novelist and hobby artist from Minneapolis, Minnesota. They were raised on a hobby farm where they nurtured their love of stories through reading and exploring the wilderness around their home. Their published work includes short stories featured in Purranormal Tails: A Fantastical Cat Anthology, and its second issue, Meowgical Tails: A Magical Cat Anthology. They are also working on their debut epic fantasy series. You can follow them on Instagram.

Nathan Evans is a writer and performer whose work has been toured by the British Council, archived in the British Film Institute and broadcast on Channel Four. His poetry has been published by Muswell Press, Royal Society of Literature, Fourteen Poems, Broken Sleep. His first collection Threads was longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize; his second collection CNUT is published by Inkandescent; he hosts BOLD Queer Poetry Soirée. His novella, One Last Song, was chosen by iNewspaper as a ‘best book’ for Pride 2024 and was longlisted for the Polari Book Prize. His debut collection of short fiction All the Young Queers, is published for LGBTQIA History Month 2025; his third poetry collection, edited by TS Eliot Prizewinner Joelle Taylor, will be published in 2026. He is recipient of an Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice Grant: he is writing a novel, mentored by Booker Prizewinner Alan Hollinghurst. www.nathanevans.co.uk @nathanevansarts

Ben Goldnagl (he / him) is a queer poet, costume maker, and occasional translator. A born Austrian based in the UK, Ben often writes about journeys, liminal spaces, and trying to see big things in the little things.

Matthew Keeley is a writer and podcaster working in TV Development and recently moved from Scotland to London. He writes all sorts of things including novels, short stories and poetry. His coming-of-age novel The Stone in My Pocket was published by The Conrad Press and his debut poetry collection will be published by Drunk Muse Press in 2025.

Dr Robin Lamboll is a research fellow studying climate change at Imperial College London, and writes poetry inspired by the intersection between the human and natural world. Robin has won the UK, Vogon and Madrid International poetry slam finals, and came second in the World Cup of Slam in 2019. They have given a TEDx talk on science and poetry and been published across the web including Perverse, Experimental Words, Eunoia Review and Consilience and have performed science-inspired poetry everywhere from music festivals to academic conferences and COPs.

Gabrielle Lisk writes about love, loss, and cities. She is currently working on her debut poetry collection.

Colin B Osborn is a poet and musician based in South London. His work has appeared in Tommyrot zine, Tin can poetry, Poetry as Promised, Anarkiss zine and in the Storytime anthology Bookmarks. He co-runs a spoken word, performance poetry and publication platform called POW! Play On Words in London and is part of the Crunch Arts Collective. You can find him on Instagram.

Noa Smith is a poet, writer and artist living, and unfortunately working, in London. They recently completed a year of posting a new poem on their Substack page every week. Well done them. They also recently came up with a great solution for pedestrianising Oxford Street and getting rid of the tax-dodge-front sweet shops, but forgot it on the way home from the pub. Any leads appreciated. FLINTA people preferred. All bills included. Pets welcome.

Ryan Stephen Thornton is a bisexual poet, writer & performance maker from York, UK, previously published in Hearth & Coffin, Powders Press, Impostor Journal, Coalition Works, & Cape Magazine. Currently immersed in a PhD in Theatre & Performance at York St John University, he is investigating how the queer history of York can be performed and brought to life through the poetic anarchive. His latest project, Nowt So Queer, uses poetry as an exploration of a living archive, unearthing untold queer stories and giving voice to the forgotten. His poetry & other writing can be found on his website www.nowtsoqueer.co.uk, or on Substack at poetchaotique.substack.com.

Joe Walsh is from Edinburgh and lives in Aberdeenshire currently. After trying various jobs, he eventually qualified as a Social Worker and after 25 years retired early to concentrate on his own writing. He has had poems published by Seahorse Publications, Blot from the Blue Publications, Inherit the Earth Publications, Dreich Publications, Jawbone Publications and most recently Poetry Scotland. He has three slim collections of poetry, and a book of short stories published available on Amazon. He is working on a novel and a further collection of poetry. His short story ‘The Big Thing That’s Everywhere’ was showcased at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2022. He is a regular at Open Mic spoken word events in Aberdeen and Edinburgh as well as online Zoom Open Mic events based in Scotland, Ireland, England and Australia. Joe is a people-watcher and human behaviour is at the heart of much of his writing, along with political observations and the natural world.

Jack Westmore is a poet and software engineer from London, UK. After studying French and German Literature at Cambridge, he took a Master’s degree in Computer Science and has been writing code ever since. Jack’s poetry has previously been published in Tin Can Poetry, &Change, and Fourteen Poems. He is a past recipient of the Tower Poetry Prize (2nd place), and is a co-editor of Seaford Review.

Edinburgh-based Jay Whittaker has published two poetry collections with Cinnamon Press, Sweet Anaesthetist (2020) and her Saltire Award winning debut Wristwatch (2017). Other publications include Poetry Review, The North, The London Magazine, New Writing Scotland, The Scotsman, Fourteen Poems, Butchers Dog, Best Scottish Poems 2023 and the Bloodaxe anthology Staying Human.  www.jaywhittaker.uk