Ian Duhig worked with homeless people for fifteen years before devoting himself to writing activities full-time. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Cholmondeley Award recipient, he has won the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem once, the National Poetry Competition twice and been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize four times. His most recent collections include: The Blind Roadmaker (Picador Poetry, 2016), shortlisted for the Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes; Pandorama (Picador Poetry, 2018); and An Arbitrary Light Bulb (Picador Poetry, 2024), a Poetry Book Society Choice and a Telegraph Poetry Book of the Year. His New and Selected Poems, published by Picador in 2021, was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Literature. A former homelessness worker, he still works on projects with the socially marginalised as well as with artists, musicians and filmmakers. He lives in Leeds. Author photo © Bob Hamilton
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