John Haynes won the Costa Prize in 2006, for his long poem Letter to Patience, the Troubadour Prize in 2007, and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize in 2010 for another long poem, You. The poems in this issue of Stand come from a new long poem about private boarding schools. jhaynestab.co.uk

John Haynes's website can be found at www.jhaynestab.co.uk.

John Haynes's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises five contributions of poetry, over a period of 14 years.