We invited poets Charlotte Eichler, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal and Jack Faricy to take part in our 2025 commission, entitled ‘Close to the Edge’. Please find their wonderful poems below along with videos of the poets reading their poems at The International Anthony Burgess Foundation.

Charlotte Eichler

Charlotte Eichler is a poet based in West Yorkshire. She is the author of Swimming Between Islands, which was published by Carcanet in 2023 and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Poetry Prize in 2024. Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including New Poetries VIII, PN Review and The Manchester Review. She is currently poet-in-residence for the AHRC-funded project ‘Ragna’s Islands’ and is working on new poetry inspired by the Saga of the Earls of Orkney and the islands of Fair Isle, Papay and North Ronaldsay.

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal is a writer and literary translator, currently based in Manchester, where she is working towards a practice-based PhD at MMU’s Centre for Place Writing. Her doctoral research explores reservoirs as engineered ecologies shaped by memories of displacement, control, and transformation.

Her poems have been translated into Arabic, German, Italian; and have appeared in Ambit, Bad Lilies, Banshee, bath magg, Cyphers, Gutter, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Jukebox, Poetry London, Prototype, Rattle, The Irish Times, and elsewhere. Her criticism has appeared in Brixton Review of Books, Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics and Wasafiri. In 2018, she was selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions Series.

She was the 2021 Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent. She was awarded the fellowship to develop a series of poems tethered to the life and work of Norah Richards, an Irish theatre practitioner who called the erstwhile Punjab and the Dhauladhars her home.

Supriya’s most recent book, The Yak Dilemma, is published by Makina Press. A limited-edition pamphlet of plague poems, Bitter Almonds, is currently in production with Salvage Press and will be released later this summer.

Jack Faricy

Jack Faricy is a teacher and poet based in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire. He regularly attends workshops with Huddersfield’s Albert Poets. His poems have won prizes and appeared in magazines. Jack’s debut collection, ‘Traces’, is published by Calder Valley Poetry. He is currently working on a PhD project, which is a poetic exploration of the M62 and the landscapes it connects.