Sean Borodale works as a poet and artist, making scriptive and documentary poems written on location; this derives from his process of writing and walking for works such as Notes for an Atlas (2003) and Walking to Paradise (1999). His work has been performed at the Royal Festival Hall, directed by Mark Rylance as part of the first London Festival of Literature. ‘Mighty Beast’, a documentary poem, was performed at the Bristol Old Vic and a BBC Radio production of it won Radio Academy Award for Best Doc/Feature 2014. He was selected as a Granta New Poet in 2012; his first collection of poetry, Bee Journal (Cape Poetry), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Costa Poetry Award in the same year. Since then, he has published further collections with Cape Poetry including Human Work (2015) and Asylum (2018). Author photo © Mark Vessey
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