Gerard Woodward was born in London in 1961. He published four poetry collections with Chatto & Windus: Householder (1991), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; After the Deafening (1994), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; Island to Island (1999); and We Were Pedestrians (2005), also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His first novel, August, was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread First Novel Award, and was followed in 2004 by I’ll Go To Bed At Noon, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Since being shortlisted for the Eliot Prize, Gerard Woodward has published two poetry collections with Picador: The Seacunny (2012) and The Vulture (2022). He is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University. Photo © Charles Hopkinson
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