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Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1963. His books of poetry have won many awards including the Forward Prize and the Costa Poetry Award for Drysalter (2013) and the Whitbread Poetry Prize for Corpus (2004). His Selected Poems was published by Cape in 2016. As a librettist, his work with composers has been performed in concert halls and opera houses around the world. The Sacrifice (for Welsh National Opera) with composer James MacMillan, won an RPS Award, and choral works Elliptics (for BBC Philharmonic) and The Anvil (for Manchester International Festival) with composer Emily Howard, were both nominated for Ivor Novello Awards. His non-fiction book Edgelands (with Paul Farley, 2011) won the Foyles Book of Ideas Award and the Jerwood Prize. He is an award-winning broadcaster and dramatist, Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Superb, substantial and intricately varied... One of the wonderful things about Symmons Roberts is his way of pushing poems - and himself with them - in a direction you were not expecting. He constantly reconstitutes the world... Symmons Roberts reminds us of how easy it is to see human extremity without seeing it - a moving feat in what is a first-rate collection. -- Kate Kellaway * Observer * There is pleasing variety here... Articulate and well-achieved... Symmons Roberts's voice reverberates the most. -- Declan Ryan * Literary Review * Enchanting. -- Tristram Fane Saunders * Daily Telegraph * It is a book for our times, hopeful yet grounded, and not above its subject. -- Rory Waterman * The Times Literary Supplement *
