Ben Maier is a writer and performer currently based in London. He is in the final stages of a PhD on radio poetry at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Belfast. Recent poems have been published in Irish Pages and The Salt Book of Younger Poets. His one-man show ‘An Imaginary Circus’ was praised as “impossible to categorise ... an energetic and vital tour de force” (Culture NI, Edinburgh Guide).