POETRY. Jarvis Cocker is a musician, actor, radio DJ, documentary film maker and poet. He is also Petey in Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr Fox. He has fronted his band Pulp for many years, as well as releasing two solo albums, presenting a Channel 4 series on outsider art and having his poetry emblazoned in huge brushed steel letters on the side of a prominent building in his hometown Sheffield. Jarvis’s eye for the unique and uncanny is exactly what we want in a guest editor. We’re delighted to have him on board.

PROSE. Richard Milward is the author of two novels, Apples (2007) and Ten Story Love Song (2009), both of which were published by Faber and Faber. Irvine Welsh and Lauren Laverne are forever bigging him up, and if you’ve read Apples or seen the theatrical version that toured last year, you’ll understand why. He studied Fine Art at Saint Martins and has written columns for the Guardian and Dazed & Confused. Having just finished his next novel, he’s happily setting aside some time to pore through our short stories in preparation for this year’s Mays anthology.

VISUAL ARTS. Paul Smith is best known as the voice of Newcastle band Maximo Park. But more than this, he was once an art teacher and released his first book of photography “Thinking in Pictures” last year, alongside his debut solo album, Margins. His musings on all things visible and aural can be located at www.paulsmithmusic.eu where his blog is on hold while he looks through the cream of Oxford and Cambridge’s visual artwork and writes a tasty preface for this year’s anthology.