Michael Symmons Roberts’ 4th book of poetry, Corpus, was the winner of the 2004 Whitbread Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for best collection, and the Griffin International Prize.
Michael Symmons Roberts’ 4th book of poetry, Corpus, was the winner of the 2004 Whitbread Poetry Award, and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for best collection, and the Griffin International Prize. His 6th collection, Drysalter, was the winner of the 2013 Forward Prize and the Costa Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. His Selected Poems was published in 2016. He has also written extensively in prose and for broadcast, working for many years for the BBC, in radio, documentary filmmaking and as a producer. His forthcoming non-fiction book, Quartet for the End of Time, (Cape, April 2025) is about poetry, music and grief. In 2014, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and he is a Trustee of the Royal Literary Fund. He is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.
