Josh Cake is a poet from Melbourne, Australia who now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with publications including Breakwater Review, Teesta Review, Paris Lit Up, The Anti-Misogyny Club, and Cordite. Josh has won the Peseroff Poetry Prize from the University of Massachusetts, was named the Most Impactful Poet by the Australian Enterprise Awards in both 2024 and 2025, and has just been named Poet of the Year 2025 by the Livewire Global Awards. Over the past year, Josh has performed poetry features in Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Brussels, London, Edinburgh, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, and New York. Following his debut album, ‘words to regret when i’m better at editing‘, Josh is currently touring a new album called ‘my poems pay taxes; my taxes buy weapons; my weapons kill poets‘. You can find Josh on Instagram at @joshcakemusic or download the albums at www.joshcake.com