Now You Can Look

Julia Bird is a poet and poetry programmer. Her poetry collections Hannah and the Monk (2008) and Twenty-four Seven Blossom (2013) were published by Salt Publishing, and the illustrated pamphlet Now You Can Look (2017) by The Emma Press. With Mike Sims, she published the poetry and artist’s book Paper Trail (Blown Rose, 2019) and A Joy Forever: a walk out with John Keats (Paekakariki Press, 2021). Anna Vaivare is an illustrator and architect who lives in Rīga, Latvia. She has illustrated two children’s books and was awarded the Jānis Baltvilks Prize for Book Art for her work in Forage for Porridge (Liels un mazs, 2015), a collection of poems for children by Leons Briedis. She also draws comic strips. You can find more of her work on her website: www.annavaivare.lv

'Beginning with her childhood and taking us on a sensory and emotive journey through adolescence and onwards to her role as a wife and mother, Julia’s poems sparkle with wit, intrigue and richly captivating imagery. ' - Caitlin Miller, Irisi Magazine