Ben Ray is a poet, reviewer and workshopper. He is a patron of the Cheltenham Poetry Festival and a winner of the 2019 New Poets Prize. His most recent collection is The Kindness of the Eel (The Poetry Business, 2020), and his writing has appeared in a wide range of publications such as Poetry Wales and The Oxford Review of Books.

Find out more about Ben at www.benray.co.uk

Ben’s poem Unzipping Wales by the A470 is published by Arachne Press in our 2022 anthology A470.