Queer Stories: Rosamund Taylor and Anthony Shapland

Rosamund is a winner of The Rialto/RSPB Nature and Place Poetry Prize (2025), The Telegraph Poetry Prize (2023), The London Magazine Poetry Prize (2020), and the Maírtín Crawford Award (2017). Rosamund Taylor’s debut collection, In Her Jaws (Banshee Press 2022), was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for a First Collection and longlisted for the Yeats Society Poetry Prize.

Her work has been included in anthologies, such as He She They Us (PanMacmillan 2024), Windfall: Irish Nature Poems (2023), and Queering the Green (2021).  She published two books in 2025: Reflections Glimmer: Poems Exploring Ekphrasis (Tapsalteerie) and Filly, a novel-in-verse (Banshee Press).  

Anthony (b.1971) is a Welsh writer and artist. He is the founder of g39, Cardiff, where he currently works. His output as a writer and artist builds on his sense that the world is constructed in the same way as a film set – constantly evolving and temporary. 

His debut novel, A Room Above a Shop is published by Granta and was selected as Hay Festival book of the year and Waterstones Welsh book of the year 2025. It is currently shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. He was included in the Observers 10 debut novelists 2025. His fiction  Feathertongue was broadcast by Radio4 Short Works and is included in the anthologies (un)common, Cymru & I, Cree and A Dictionary of Light. He appears in the inaugural edition of Folding Rock magazine with his fiction Sometimes We Speak. A solo exhibition Liar,Liar opened at Aberystwyth Art Centre in April 2025 alongside the publication of Lan Stâr, a Welsh language adaptation of his novel by Esyllt Angharad Lewis. He is represented by Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown.