Raymond Antrobus was born in Hackney, London, to an English mother and Jamaican father. His collections include two T. S. Eliot Prize shortlisted titles, Signs, Music (Picador Poetry, 2024) and All The Names Given (Picador Poetry, 2021); The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins / Tin House, 2018), which won the Ted Hughes Award, Rathbones Folio Prize and Somerset Maugham Award; and To Sweeten Bitter (Out-Spoken Press, 2017). Raymond has also written two illustrated books for children: Can Bears Ski? and Terrible Horses, both published by Walker Books. A number of his poems were added to the UK’s GCSE syllabus in 2022. The BBC Radio 4 documentary Inventions in Sound, which accompanied All The Names Given, was produced by Falling Tree Productions and won a Best Documentary Award at the 2021 Third Coast International Audio Festival. The Quiet Ear: An Investigation in Missing Sound will be published in 2024. Raymond lives in Margate. Author photo © Chantal Lawrie
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