Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire, and spent his childhood in Lancashire. He now lives near Manchester. His eight poetry collections have all been published by Cape Poetry and include Corpus (2004), which was the winner of the 2004 Whitbread Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the Griffin International Prize. His sixth collection, Drysalter, was the winner of the 2013 Forward Prize and the Costa Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. His Selected Poems was published in 2016. His collaboration with composer James MacMillan has led to two BBC Proms choral commissions and work for the Royal Opera House. He has published two novels and is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. His most recent poetry collection is Ransom (Cape, 2021). Author photo © Urszula Soltys
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