Tom Paulin grew up in Belfast and now lives in Oxford, where he is Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, University of Oxford. Namanlagh (Faber & Faber), his first collection in a decade, is his tenth book of poetry and was recently awarded the PEN Heaney Prize 2025, as well as being shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2025. Of his previous collections Walking a Line (1994), The Wind Dog (1999) and The Road to Inver (2004) were all also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His New Selected Poems appeared in 2014. He has published six books of critical prose on topics including Thomas Hardy and William Hazlitt, several plays and two anthologies. Author photo © Bobbie Hanvey
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