Joe Carrick-Varty is a British-Irish poet, writer and founding editor of bath magg. His work has appeared in New Statesman, Granta and Poetry Magazine. In 2019, he won the New Poets prize and in 2022 he won an Eric Gregory Award. His debut collection, More Sky (Carcanet Press, 2023), was Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.