{"id":4022,"date":"2024-10-17T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T10:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2025-02-24T21:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T21:05:34","slug":"shortlisted-poet-in-focus-raymond-antrobus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/shortlisted-poet-in-focus-raymond-antrobus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortlisted Poet in Focus: Raymond Antrobus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4031\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4031\" style=\"width: 886px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4031 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Antrobus-Raymond-photo-600x1200-\u00a9-Chantal-Lawrie.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait photo of Raymond Antrobus, looking directly into the camera. He is wearing a striped top.\" width=\"886\" height=\"443\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo \u00a9 Chantal Lawrie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Raymond Antrobus, shortlisted with his collection <i>Signs, Music<\/i> (Picador Poetry, 2024), is the featured poet in this week\u2019s Eliot Prize e-newsletter. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get to know Antrobus and his collection.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re delighted to continue our celebrated video series with specially produced <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2024\/videos\/#raymond-antrobus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recordings of Antrobus<\/a>\u00a0reading from <em>Signs, Music, <\/em>and talking about both the composition of the poems and the themes they explore.<\/p>\n<p>Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Antrobus-Readers-Notes-2024-WEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reader\u2019s Notes on <em>Signs, Music<\/em><\/a>, which include a selection of poems from the collection, plus reviews, reading suggestions, and a writing prompt or two for those inspired to respond creatively. The aim of the Readers\u2019 Notes is to inspire deeper readings of the book, individually or shared with friends, book groups or writing workshops.<\/p>\n<p>We have also published an insightful <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2024\/reviews\/#raymond-antrobus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">review, specially commissioned from John Field.<\/a>\u00a0Raymond has also made a <a href=\"https:\/\/poetryschool.com\/t-s-eliot-writers-notes\/raymond-antrobus-t-s-eliot-writers-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wonderful contribution to the Poetry School&#8217;s Writer&#8217;s Notes project<\/a>, in which he talks about his writing practice. The series helps professional poets and creative writing students develop their practice by sharing the writing approaches of some of contemporary poetry\u2019s most exciting and accomplished voices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To be the first to read Eliot Prize news, <a href=\"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/subscribe-to-the-t-s-eliot-prize-newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">simply sign up to weekly e-newsletter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raymond Antrobus, shortlisted with his collection Signs, Music (Picador Poetry, 2024), is the featured poet in this week\u2019s Eliot Prize e-newsletter. The newsletter tells you about the wide range of content we have just published to help you get to know Antrobus and his collection. We\u2019re delighted to continue our celebrated video series with specially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[63,74],"class_list":["post-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-63","tag-antrobus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6664,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions\/6664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}