New Writing

Kirsten Irving is a Lincolnshire-born, London-based poet and voiceover, and one half of the team behind collaborative press Sidekick Books. Her work has been published by Guillemot, Salt and Happenstance, widely anthologised and thrown out of a helicopter. She has won the Live Canon International Poetry Prize, judged competitions, and taught courses on folklore in poetry. She works in a library, writes about toys, and is planning her woodland burial.   Website: kirstenirving.com / Twitter: @KoftheTriffids   photo c: Gemma Turnbull