‘Enigma Machine’ is Alicia Stubbersfield’s fifth collection, described by Dean Parkin as ‘full of cracking details, honest observations and wry humour’. From the North-West, she was an English teacher for many years, taking her students to the Arvon Foundation at Lumb Bank where she found her own poetic voice. She now regularly tutors for Arvon and was Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University. A sessional lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire she still loves teaching.