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Mario Petrucci is an early founder and leading proponent of Ecopoetry. Performer, academic, environmentalist and PhD physicist, as well as translator, educator and broadcaster, his many awards include the Arvon Prize, Bridport Prize, Irish Times Perpetual Trophy, and London Writers Competition (four times). Heavy Water: a poem for Chernobyl (Enitharmon) was hailed as “heartfelt, ambitious and alive” by The Daily Telegraph and “poetry on a geological scale” by Verse (USA). Petrucci’s sustained mediations between ecology and poetry – particularly via the UN – galvanise the role of the arts in environmental discourse. In 2026, Petrucci was appointed Ecopoetry Network Coordinator for the Planetary Arts Movement by the World Academy of Art and Science.

Ian Phillips is a linocut and woodcut artist who studied illustration at Leicester Polytechnic.  He now lives in Wales and specialises in prints taken from drawings made in the course of long distance walks.  He is also a member of the  print collective ‘Pine Feroda’ based in North Devon. His work has appeared in exhibitions across the UK, as well as in Hong Kong and the US.

Peter Phillips is a London-based writer and poet whose first full collection Looking for You was published in 2001. His most recent title is Four Poems From Saying It With Flowers (Hearing Eye, 2016) which includes linocuts by the printmaker Emily Johns. His poems are characterised by a lyrical warmth, and often by gentle humour.

Stuart Pickford is the recipient of an Eric Gregory award. His first collection The Basics (Redbeck Press, 2001) was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize. His second collection Swimming with Jellyfish was published by Smith/Doorstop in 2016. He lives in Harrogate and taught in a local comprehensive school.

Vic Pickup is a poet, writer and researcher based in Hampshire. Her poetry collections include Lost & Found (Hedgehog Press, 2020) and The Omniscient Tooth Fairy (Indigo Dreams, 2023). She is the co-organiser of Poets’ Café Reading and Reading Stanza group.

Katherine Pierpoint is a British Poet who studied languages at Exeter University. Her best-know poetry collection is Truffle Beds (Faber, 1995) which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and won a Somerset Maugham Award. Her poem ‘Buffalo Calf’ won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem in 2005.