Elontra Hall – a Black-American poet based in Northampton – centres much of his work around fatherhood, basketball, relationships and identity. He has been published in HeadFake, Butcher’s Dog (16), Magma (82, 87), Propel (6) Shō (5), Prairie Schooner and had work broadcast on BBC 4’s Poetry Please (Christmas 2022). He is a student on the Poetry School MA in conjunction with Newcastle University as well as the holder of its Scholarship to an outstanding candidate for the 2023 – 2025 cohort. He is an Obsidian Foundation Fellow and a member of both Griot’s Well and The Watering Hole.
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