Raymond Antrobus
Raymond Antrobus is a British poet, educator and writer who has been performing poetry since 2007. In March 2019, he won the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry. In May 2019, Antrobus became the first poet to win the Rathbones Folio Prize for his collection The Perseverance, praised by chair of the judges as "an immensely moving book of poetry which uses his deaf experience, bereavement and Jamaican-British heritage to consider the ways we all communicate with each other." Antrobus was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.
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- Born in
- Hackney
- Educated at
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- Awards
- 🏆 Somerset Maugham Award🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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1986
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