Our 2023 New Northern Poets
In our first year of our New Northern Poets programme, these four incredibly talented poets based in the North of England received profile building opportunities, free access to workshops and showcases at the 2023 Ilkley Literature Festival ‘Poetry Day’, assistance with expenses and a New Northern Poets pack.
Charlotte Oliver
Charlotte Oliver lives on the Yorkshire Coast where she writes poetry for children and adults. Her work has been published widely and placed in competitions including the Patricia Eschen and the Wirral Poetry Prize, as well as broadcast on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row and BBC6Music. Since being a New Northern Poet, Charlotte has had a number of commissions including work for the BBC, the National Literacy Trust and the FEED Project, as well as collaborating with visual artists such as for Words in the Landscape for the North Yorkshire Moors National Park, Rabbit, Toad and Cormorant statues in Scarborough South Cliff Gardens, Endangered by Mark Butler and a forthcoming project with sculptor Tony Heaton OBE for the Open University. Charlotte facilitates poetry workshops and is one of The Poetry Society’s Poets in Schools. Her first full collection, Nothing Happens but Everything Happens, is forthcoming with Valley Press in Autumn 2026. Charlotte is the new East Riding Poet Laureate.
Connect with Charlotte:
www.charlotteoliver.com
Instagram: charlotteoliverpoet
Facebook: charlotte.oliver.378
Daniel Hinds
Following his time as a New Northern Poet, Daniel’s debut collection New Famous Phrases was published by Broken Sleep Books in 2025. The collection won the international UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award in 2026 from Struga Poetry Evenings and has been translated into Macedonian. The collection was also a finalist for another international prize, the Big Other Book Award for Poetry 2025. Daniel’s stage adaptation of his BBC audio piece, The Stone Men of Newcastle, was a Runner-Up for the Pomegranate Poetry Theatre Prize, and was performed by Théâtre Volière at the Poetry Plays Festival at the Cockpit Theatre, London. He was also a North East Culture Award Newcomer of the Year finalist in 2024.
Connect with Daniel:
Website: https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/daniel-hinds/
Bluesky: @danielghinds.bsky.social
Read Daniel’s work here:
New Famous Phrases: Daniel Hinds – New Famous Phrases | Broken Sleep Books
Kristina Diprose
Kristina Diprose co-runs Rhubarb at the Triangle, a monthly open mic in Shipley. She co-edited Rhubarb’s 2022 anthology, Seconds, which was featured in Carol Rumen’s Poem of the Week blog for The Guardian.
Since being a New Northern Poet, Kristina has published (and sold out!) her debut pamphlet with Black Cat Press, had two short story commissions for Bradford 2025, been on BBC Front Row & in the Brontë Parsonage & Festival of Women’s Writing, organised a community poetry trail with free writing workshops in Shipley, and hosted an in-conversation with Kim Moore for Bradford Library. She has appeared as a panelist at Leeds Literature Festival in June 2026 and has regular success with competition long-listings, short-listings and publications.
Read Kristina’s work here:
‘A rare one‘ for the Black Cat Poetry Press sea competition
‘Spurn Point‘ in the Ginkgo Prize/AONB Best Poem of Landscape anthology
Reading ‘Airedale‘ for Saltaire Festival’s Green Aire poetry competition & anthology
Reading ‘In which God appears as a busker‘for the launch of And the Stones Fell Open: A Leeds Poetry Anthology
Emma Conally-Barklem
Image credit: Dr Z Bajuszova
Emma Conally-Barklem is an author, poet, workshop facilitator and yoga teacher based in Yorkshire. Emma won the Black in White Poetry Prize 2024. She is the author of three pamphlets. She was a core poet for the BBC’s Contains Strong Language Poetry Festival 2025 and a guest on Radio 4’s Front Row discussing the lives and works of the Brontës. Emma was a guest on BBC 2 ‘s Robson Green’s Weekend Escapes facilitating a mental health and nature poetry workshop for Robson and actor Laura Norton. Emma won the First Chapter Award 2025 for her community work around grief with marginalised communities. She has had residencies at the Brontë Parsonage Museum and for the Antioch Project in Skelton, North Yorkshire. Emma’s debut novel Yoga Homicide was shortlisted for the Book Edit Writers’ Prize 2025 and in the Ascent Novel Prize’s Top 100 2025. The High Flight: 50 Poems Inspired by Emily Brontë’s Hawk is Emma’s first full collection and launched at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in May 2026.
Connect with Emma:
www.emmaliveyoga.com
Instagram: @emmaliveyoga