Rebecca McGuire-Snieckus
Transatlantic Poetry Series
Posted on May 14, 2026
Transatlantic Poetry Series
3rd-25th June 2026, 7pm
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Wayne Holloway-Smith – 3rd June
Wayne Holloway-Smith’s first poetry publication was the pamphlet Beloved, in case you’ve been wondering, published by Donut Press in 2011.
His first book-length collection, Alarum (2017), was a Poetry Book Society Wildcard Choice for Winter 2017, and was shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018 and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize in 2018.
He won The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2016 and The National Poetry Competition in 2018. He was shortlisted for the T.S.Eliot Prize for his collection Love Minus Love in 2020; this book was also a Poetry Book Society Wild Card choice.
His most recent book, Rabbitbox was published in March 2026. He is currently the editor of The Poetry Review and is Lecturer in Literature and Creative Writing in the School of Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
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Hadara Bar-Nadav – 5th June
Hadara Bar-Nadav is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.
She is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Animal Is Chemical (Four Way Books, 2024), awarded the Levis Prize in Poetry, selected by Jericho Brown, plus The New Nudity (Saturnalia Books, 2017); Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books, 2013), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues, 2012), Editor’s Selection/Runner Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007), awarded the Margie Book Prize.
She is a Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
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Jennifer Militello – 9th June
Hadara Bar-Nadav is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, the Lucille Medwick Award from the Poetry Society of America, and a fellowship from the Poetry Foundation.
She is the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Animal Is Chemical (Four Way Books, 2024), awarded the Levis Prize in Poetry, selected by Jericho Brown, plus The New Nudity (Saturnalia Books, 2017); Lullaby (with Exit Sign) (Saturnalia Books, 2013), awarded the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize; The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues, 2012), Editor’s Selection/Runner Up for the Green Rose Prize; and A Glass of Milk to Kiss Goodnight (Margie/Intuit House, 2007), awarded the Margie Book Prize.
She is a Professor of English and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
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Jogn McCullough – 24th June
John McCullough lives in Hove. His book of poems, Reckless Paper Birds (Penned in the Margins) won the 2020 Hawthornden Prize for Literature as well as being shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award.
John’s collections have been Books of the Year for publications including The Guardian, The Times, The Independent and The Telegraph and he also won the Polari First Book Prize. The poem ‘Flower of Sulphur’, from his fourth collection Panic Response (Penned in the Margins), was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.
His fifth collection, Crowd Voltage, was published in March 2026 by Bloodaxe.
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