{"id":8096,"date":"2025-03-07T13:14:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8096"},"modified":"2025-06-06T18:03:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T17:03:53","slug":"ahren-warner","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/ahren-warner\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahren Warner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahren Warner was born in 1986 and grew up in Lincolnshire before moving to London. He completed his doctoral thesis on philosophy, psychoanalysis and the commodity in twentieth-century poetry at the University of London. His first two collections were <em>Confer\u00a0<\/em>(Bloodaxe Books, 2011) and <em>Pretty\u00a0<\/em>(Bloodaxe Books, 2013); <em>Confer\u00a0<\/em>was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize 2013. He also published a pocketbook, <em>Re:<\/em>, with Donut Press.\u00a0Since judging the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2015, Ahren has published two further collections with Bloodaxe: Y<em>our promise has been extracted<\/em> (2017), shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize 2018, and <em>I\u2019m totally killing your vibes<\/em>\u00a0(2022). His collections have received three Poetry Book Society Recommendations and awards including an Arts Foundation Fellowship. He works across writing, photography and moving image, with an intermedia project, <em>The sea is spread and cleaved and furled<\/em>, published by Prototype in 2020, and a film \u2013 <em>I\u2019m thinking what would sound sincere but also, like, oh, that\u2019s super cute<\/em>, selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2020). He is a former Poetry Editor of <em>Poetry London. Author photo \u00a9 Rebecca Ribichini<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahren Warner was born in 1986 and grew up in Lincolnshire before moving to London. He completed his doctoral thesis on philosophy, psychoanalysis and the commodity in twentieth-century poetry at the University of London. His first two collections were Confer\u00a0(Bloodaxe Books, 2011) and Pretty\u00a0(Bloodaxe Books, 2013); Confer\u00a0was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8090,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8096","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}