Siddhartha Bose is a poet, playwright and performer based in Hackney, London. His poetry has appeared in Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century (Bloodaxe, 2009), Dear World and Everyone in It: New Poetry in the UK (Bloodaxe, 2013) and The HarperCollins Book of English Poetry (HarperCollins, 2012). His first book, Kalagora, appeared in 2010 from Penned in the Margins. Siddhartha has been featured on BBC 4 TV, BBC Radio 3 and was dubbed one of the 'ten rising stars of British poetry' by The Times. Siddhartha has written, performed and toured a one-man play, also Kalagora, which completed an acclaimed run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011. His second show, London's Perverted Children, was longlisted for an Oxford Samuel Becket Theatre Trust award. He is a Leverhulme Fellow in Drama at Queen Mary, University of London.