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...
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