Zaffar Kunial was born in Birmingham and lives in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. In 2011 he won third prize in the National Poetry Competition with ‘Hill Speak’. In 2014, he published a pamphlet in the Faber New Poets series, was awarded The Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize and was Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust. His debut collection, Us (Faber, 2018), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and other awards. Six, his pamphlet of cricket poems, coinciding with a residency at the Oval, was published in 2019. He was a 2022 recipient of the Yale University Windham-Campbell Prize. England’s Green is his second collection.
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