Sarah Hayden’s poems have been published in revues including Tripwire, Scree, Steamer, The Internal Leg and Cutlery Review and datableed. Her chapbooks, System Without Issue (Oystercatcher Press) and Exteroceptive (Wild Honey Press) came out in 2014 and new poems are forthcoming this summer in an IUR special issue on Irish Experimental Poetry (Edinburgh UP). She lectures in 20th & 21st c. American literature and culture at the University of Southampton and writes about modernism, poetry and art. She likes collaborating with visual artists on producing texts for installation or performance and is currently working on an artists’ book with Angela Fulcher. Her monograph on Mina Loy and artisthood is on the way from University of New Mexico Press and she is right now writing a book, Peter Roehr—Field Pulsations, with Paul Hegarty, and plotting a future project on modernist virgins.

Timothy Thornton is a composer, pianist, and writer. He has been published by Shit Valley, Barque, and Mountain. A collaboration with Richard Dodwell called “PLANES: a live tuning” is at Battersea Arts Centre in July. Also this summer, in collaboration with the video artist Thomas Yeomans, he is re-working ‘they heavily vanish’, a masque for small ensemble using text from The Tempest. In a few weeks he’s doing live soundtracks at a film screening, and has recently been composing the music for a radio play about spies. He likes live tunings, The Tempest, live soundtracks, and spies.

Ed Luker is a poet and writer based between London and Newcastle, UK. He is the author of Peak Return (2014), Headlost (2014), as well as The Sea Together and Universal Attainment Centre (both forthcoming). The latter publication was recently short-listed for the Book Works’ Semina series competition. He is currently working on a PhD on J. H. Prynne and the politics of 'late’ modernism.

The usual music from a thing, bar, books and possibly even dancing, taking place UPSTAIRS at the Hope & Ruin, just down from the train station on Queen’s Road, Brighton.