MANCUNIA SHORTLISTED FOR TS ELIOT PRIZE
Michael’s seventh book of poems – MANCUNIA – has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize, to be announced at a ceremony in January. All the shortlisted poets will be reading at the Royal Festival Hall...
View ArticlePARADISE LOST DRAMA PUBLISHED AS AUDIOBOOK
Michael’s dramatisation of Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ – broadcast earlier this year on BBC Radio 4, is available to buy as an audiobook or download, co-published by the BBC and Penguin Audiobooks. The...
View ArticleNEW CHORAL WORK TO MARK PETERLOO ANNIVERSARY
In a new commission from the Manchester International Festival, Michael worked with composer Emily Howard to produce a major new choral work – The Anvil – to mark the 200th Anniversary of the Peterloo...
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NEW LIMITED EDITION OF ‘TAKK’ PUBLISHED
Andrew Moorhouse at Fine Press Poetry commissioned Michael together with painter Jake Attree to collaborate on a response to Bruegel’s painting ‘Procession to Calvary’ for a limited edition...
View ArticleTHE ANVIL NOMINATED FOR IVOR AWARDS
THE ANVIL, a work for choirs, soloists and orchestra with music by Emily Howard and libretto by Michael, has been nominated for an Ivor Award in the category ‘Best Large Orchestral Work’. The piece was...
View ArticleNEW POETRY COLLECTION
Michael’s 8th poetry collection – RANSOM – will be published by Cape (Penguin Random House) in March 2021. The post NEW POETRY COLLECTION appeared first on Michael Symmons Roberts.
View ArticleRANSOM CHOSEN AS PBS RECOMMENDATION
Michael’s eighth full collection – RANSOM – published by Cape in March 2021, has been selected as a Poetry Book Society Spring Recommendation. Details here:...
View ArticleRadio 4 series available on BBC Sounds
MODERN METAMORPHOSES, a Radio 4 series on poetry and the body, written and presented by Michael and produced by Geoff Bird, was broadcast in February and is available for catch-up listening via BBC...
View ArticleRANSOM PUBLICATION DAY & THE VERB
March 18th is official publication day for RANSOM, Michael’s 8th collection of poems. Ransom is an intense and vivid exploration of liberty and limit, of what it means to be alive, and the possibility...
View ArticleRANSOM ON TS ELIOT PRIZE SHORTLIST
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/14/ts-eliot-prize-unveils-voices-of-the-moment-in-2021-shortlist The post RANSOM ON TS ELIOT PRIZE SHORTLIST appeared first on Michael Symmons Roberts.
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