Ali Al-Jamri is a Bahraini British poet, translator, editor and educator. He is one of Manchester’s Multilingual City Poets (2022-2024). He edited ‘Between Two Islands’ (2021) and ‘ArabLit Quarterly: FOLK’ (2021). His work has been published in a variety of magazines and journals including Modern Poetry in Translation, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, ArabLit, The Markaz and Harana. He has co-authored teacher anthologies with HarperCollins. His work has featured the Liverpool Arab Arts Festival and Manchester’s Festival of Libraries and Mother Languages Festival. In 2024, he has been primarily working on his poetry film ‘The Legend of the Looms: The Weavers’ Debate’, an Arts Council England-funded project that fuses Bahraini and Lancashire poetic traditions. As a translator, he particularly enjoys working with texts expression folk culture and engaging poetics.