Our Poets
Mimi Jones - Sitting On The Ocean Watching You Fight Off Seagulls To Save Our Chips
Mimi is a Plymouth based poet, exploring the reality of life as a multiply disabled trans person navigating a world not designed for them.
They were Plymouths Young City Laureate from 2023-24 and Bio Page short story winner. They are currently working on their first solo poetry/art exhibition with The Talk Shop. They also run Queer Out Loud CIC where they support other queer people in simply being.
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Charlotte Faulconbridge - The Warring Twenties
Charlotte is an autistic and chronically ill prize-winning poet, #1 Amazon bestselling author, musician and TEDx performer.
She is an ambassador for the mental health charity MIND, was a finalist in the BBC Make A Difference Awards 2024, and in 2025 she was named one of the Big Issue’s top 100 Changemakers.
As well as headlining many poetry events nationally, she played at the Godiva Festival (2024) alongside Richard Ashcroft, Paloma Faith, Sam Ryder, and Beverly Knight. Her music and poetry was broadcast across the BBC for Autism Acceptance Week and she continues to advocate for the causes she feels most passionate about.
Laurie Page - The Colour of Thunder
Laurie is a Devon based poet whose writing explores experiences of land, gender, and language of a shifting time. She has a background in music and often channels the melodic and rhythmical through her writing.
She has been writing poetry regularly for almost a decade and has performed at various literary events, showcases and open mics, including Plymouth’s Storyteller Festival, Tunes in the Park with Sprout Spoken, Pride in Plymouth Takeover:LGBTQIA+ History Month, Wonderzoo’s Stripped Back Sessions, as well as headlining Totnes’ Wordstir and Exeter’s Taking the Mic. She is the resident compère of Pyre Events.
Caroline Burrows - Verse Cycles
Caroline writes poetry with elegant assurance but, more than this, she lives by the beliefs she explores in her poems. Her most recent poetry tour involved cycling from Bristol to Berwick-upon-Tweed, through storm and heatwave, with her belongings stashed away in bulging panniers: a clear reflection of her steely resolve.
Caroline’s poetry has appeared on BBC Radio 4, BBC Sky at Night Magazine, Kendal Adventure Film Festival, and been short-listed for the Sustainability First Art Prize, and she was Poet in Residence at Cromarty Arts Trust. Caroline’s ‘Turning Pedals into Poems’ was shortlisted for best show in the Saboteur Awards; which also had her named one of Cycling UK’s #100WomenInCycling for touring from Bristol to Berwick-upon-Tweed. Her short stories have appeared in the National Flash Fiction Anthology, and The Charles Causley Trust.
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Estelle Phillips
U.K. award winning performance poet and writer Estelle Phillips is concerned with nature. Nominated for the 2023 Forward prize in relation to “Motherhoodlum” (Jawbone), she won second prize in the Yeovil Literary Competition (Novel) 2022 and her short stories and poetry are frequently broadcast by the BBC. A slam winner, her performances include the Royal Albert Hall and Southbank. Her show “110 m.p.h.” ran at the Nuffield Theatre (2021). “The Trapped Doe” makes its London debut in January 2024.
U.K. publications include The Blackmore Vale Magazine, Independent, and THE; U.S. include “Rock And A Hard Place”, “Dark Yonder”, and “Kingfisher”.
Claire Morris
Clare is a writer, reviewer and performance poet from South Devon. Her collection Devon Maid Walking was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best Poetry Collection.
Short-listed as Best Spoken Word Performer in the 2023 Saboteur Awards, Clare was the Exeter Slam Champion for 2022 and a finalist in Slamovision 2022, a global poetry competition. Having worked as a teacher and researcher, she was also for several years an editor for The Blue Nib and The Write Life. She now focuses on her writing full-time. Award-winning poet and novelist, Luke Kennard believes her poetry possesses ‘a rare formal and lyrical dexterity.’
Peter Roe
Peter lives on Dorset’s Jurassic Coast. He is a prize winning performance poet, artistic, autistic, working class, disabled, computer geek and technology nerd. A former Bard of Dorchester and host of Bridport spoken word night Apothecary and Jawbone at The Poet Laureate. Founding and Managing Editor of The Jawbone Collective.
Peter has been widely anthologised, the author of three poetry collections Technology Bytes Back; I’m In Love With My Barista; Love Hertz; and a novelette; Odin and The Mead of Poetry. Originally from Derbyshire he ‘blew in’ to Dorset twenty years ago. He currently lives in Broadwindsor. Peter has a background in technology and education, runs workshops in schools and arts organisations. He is an advocate and mentor for autists and is a Community Health Champion who believes passionately in the role of creativity as an aspect of personal health and mental well being.
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Kate Gold
Kate is a painter and poet living on the edge of Dartmoor. She has written poetry since a child. After she studied poetry as part of a creative arts degree, she took her writing more seriously and honed and developed her writing skills.
Kate went on to achieve an M.A in creative writing (poetry) In the past Kate worked as an art, poetry and creative writing tutor in HMP Bristol and ran writing workshops in community settings.
Much of Kate’s poetry is inspired by her love of the wild beauty of the natural environment. Her first poetry pamphlet was published in 2022 by The Jawbone Collective.
Tia Meraki
Tia is a poet, musician, and yoga teacher, inspired by the beautiful landscape of her adopted home on the edge of Exmoor and the North Devon coast. She is often found swimming or attempting to surf among the breaking waves of the Atlantic. She also works for local environmental charity Plastic Free North Devon, seeking to facilitate and inspire nature connection and sustainable behaviour change; social and environmental justice have always been close to her heart and these are themes that frequently emerge in her writing.
Tia’s Home in Our Own Skin debut collection of poetry and lyrics is an exploration of home through place, ancestry, myth, trauma, body, family, addiction, music, gathering, flora, fauna, earth, climate change, and a global pandemic…
Poppy Jayne Jones
Poppy is a gifted multi talented performer with a confidence and ability that belies her tender years. The first time we saw Poppy perform in Totnes, we knew she was someone we had to publish. She blew us away with here improvisational poetry, then she entranced us with her singing voice and later seduced us with her written words.
Tom Rogers
