Jack Underwood is a poet, writer and critic based in London. A winner of the Eric Gregory Award in 2007, his debut pamphlet was published by Faber & Faber as part of the first Faber New Poets series in 2009. His debut poetry collection, Happiness (Faber, 2015), won the Somerset Maugham Award. He was co-founder of the leading anthology series Stop Sharpening Your Knives and has published work widely in UK magazines, and internationally, having been translated into seven languages. He has been a regular reviewer for both The Poetry Review and Poetry London. His non-fiction book, Not Even This (Corsair, 2021) explores poetic language, knowledge and uncertainty. He is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, University of London. A Year in the New Life was published by Faber & Faber in 2021.
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