William Sieghart has had a long career in publishing and the arts. He established the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 1992 and founded National Poetry Day in 1994. His Poetry Pharmacy began touring in 2014; since then, and particularly since the publications of the enormously successful The Poetry Pharmacy (2017) and The Poetry Pharmacy Returns (2019), he has prescribed thousands of poems up and down the UK over hundreds of hours of in-person consultations.

Olivia Williams is a celebrated British actress in film, television, and theatre. She is widely remembered for her role as ‘Anna Crowe’ in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense and as ‘Rosemary Cross’ in Wes Anderson’s definitive film, Rushmore. Olivia will soon be seen leading HBO’s new adventure drama Dune: Prophecy, as ‘Tula Harkonnen’. In 2023, Olivia reprised her role as now Queen consort ‘Camilla Parker Bowles’ for the sixth and final season of the hugely popular, Emmy winning series The Crown. Olivia starred in The Father in 2020. The devastating portrait of an elderly man (Sir Anthony Hopkins) descending into dementia went on to win multiple BAFTA Film and Academy Awards. In The Ghost Writer, Olivia won the award for Best Supporting actress from both the US National Society of Film Critics and the London Critics’ Circle for the role ‘Ruth Lang’. Olivia earned a degree in English at Cambridge University, before studying drama at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. In 2015, Olivia astounded audiences in the critically acclaimed Waste. Olivia’s other theatre credits include Neil Labute’s In A Forest Dark And Deep at the Vaudeville theatre, Richard III starring Sir Ian McKellen, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and the critically celebrated role of Kitty in Happy Now all with the National Theatre. Olivia was appointed as a judge for the Man Booker prize 2016.

Irish actress Denise Gough’s plethora of work includes Duncan MacMillan’s award-winning play, People Places and Things, which earned her an Olivier Award and a Critics Circle Theatre Award for ‘Best Actress’. She also starred in Angels in America at the National Theatre where she won her second Olivier Award for ‘Best Supporting Actress’ before heading to Broadway with the production and also receiving a Tony Nomination. Other theatre credits include the title role in Portia Coughlan at The Abbey in Dublin, The Duchess of Malfi at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Theatre, Adler and Gibb at the Royal Court, and Desire Under the Elms for which saw her win the ‘Most Promising Newcomer’ at the Critics Circle Theatre Awards. Denise’s film credits include Monday, directed by Argyris Papadimitropoulos. Other credits include The Other Lamb, Colette, starring alongside Keira Knightly, The Kid Who Would be King, musical comedy Juliet Naked, Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, Ken Loach’s Jimmy’s Hall and the BAFTA nominated ’71 from director Yann Demange. Her television credits include Disney Plus series Andor created by Tony Gilroy where she plays Dedra Meero, Under the Banner of Heaven starring alongside Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones, and Too Close playing lead character Connie alongside Emily Watson, for which she received a BAFTA nomination for Leading Actress.