Tom Burgess is a Bristol-based poet `who has lived to breathe in new art'. He worked as a primary school teacher and has published numerous poetry, as well as short prose.

"Tom's work is standing silently in the wings, dusting itself down, waiting to take centre stage and preparing to enter your eyes, rise to your frontal creative cortex and fill your soul with utterings of simplicity, beauty, power, majesty, fragility and optimism." -- Tracey West, CEO and Co-Founder of The Word Forest Organisation