Tom Branfoot is a poet and critic from Bradford, and the writer-in-residence at Manchester Cathedral. He won a Northern Debut Award for Poetry in 2024 and the New Poets Prize 2022. He organises the poetry reading series More Song in Bradford. Tom is the author of I’ll Splinter (Pariah Press, 2021), This Is Not an Epiphany (Smith|Doorstop, 2023) and boar (Broken Sleep Books, 2023). He has written reviews and criticism for Poetry Review, Poetry London, The London Magazine, Magma and elsewhere. His poems have been published internationally by SAND, Bath Magg, Oxford Review of Books, Wet Grain, Ludd Gang, and Berlin Lit among other publications.