Raymond Antrobus

1986–

Raymond Antrobus is a British poet and teacher, born in Hackney, east London, in 1986 to an English mother and a Jamaican father. His deafness was not diagnosed until he was six, and deafness, language and communication run through his work. He was among the first to take an MA in Spoken Word Education at Goldsmiths, co-founded the Chill Pill poetry nights, and has taught widely in schools. His debut collection, The Perseverance, won the Ted Hughes Award and the Rathbones Folio Prize, and he was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 2019. All the Names Given (2021) followed. He was elected FRSL in 2020 and appointed MBE in 2021.

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