Sam Willetts was born in 1962 and has spent most of his life in Oxford, where he read English at Wadham College, and in London. He has worked as a teacher, journalist and travel writer.His first collection, New Light for the Old Dark, was shortlisted for the 2010 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Poetry Award. In 2014 he was named as a Poetry Book Society Next Generation Poet.
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