Nigel Kent is a four times Pushcart Prize nominated poet (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) and reviewer, who lives in rural Worcestershire. He is an active member of the Open University Poetry Society, managing its website and occasionally editing its workshop magazine. He has been shortlisted for several national competitions and his poetry has appeared in a wide range of anthologies and magazines. Some of his work has been translated by Mariana Zavati Gardner for the Romanian literary journals, Banchetful, Pro Saeculum and Ateneu.

He is the author of two collections, and five pamphlets: Unmuted, Hedgehog Press, 2021; Saudade, Hedgehog Press, 2019; Psychopathogen, Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2020 (which was nominated for the 2020 Michael Marks Award for Poetry Pamphletsand made the Poetry Book Society’s Winter List, 2020; two poetry conversations with Sarah Thomson, Thinking You Home and A Hostile Environment, Hedgehog Poetry…