We are excited to announce our Autumn 2024 Choice, Raymond Antrobus.
Raymond Antrobus was born in Hackney, London, to an English mother and Jamaican father. He is the author of To Sweeten Bitter, The Perseverance, and All the Names Given. In 2018 he was awarded The Geoffrey Dearmer Prize (judged by Ocean Vuong) for his poem ‘Sound Machine’. In 2019 he became the first poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre. Other accolades include the Ted Hughes Award, the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award and a Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award. All the Names Given was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize, and several of his poems were added to the GCSE syllabus in 2022. His picture books for children are published by Walker Books. Raymond Antrobus is an advocate for several D/deaf charities including Deaf Kidz International and the National Deaf Children’s Society.