Michael Symmons Roberts is a British poet. He has published five collections of poetry, all with Cape (Random House), and has won the Whitbread Poetry Award, as well as major prizes from the Arts Council and Society of Authors. He has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize (twice), the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize. He has also written novels, libretti for operas and texts for oratorios and song cycles.

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  • Michael Symmons Roberts is a British poet. He has published five collections of poetry, all with Cape (Random House), and has won the Whitbread Poetry Award, as well as major prizes from the Arts Council and Society of Authors. He has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize (twice), the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize. He has also written novels, libretti for operas and texts for oratorios and song cycles. He regularly writes and presents documentaries and dramas for broadcast. Born in Preston, Lancashire, in 1963, he read Philosophy and Theology at Regent's Park College, Oxford. He is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. His continuing collaboration with composer James MacMillan has so far led to two BBC Proms choral commissions, a song cycle and a new opera for the Welsh National Opera. In the 1990's he worked as a documentary maker for BBC radio and TV. He has been described by Jeanette Winterson as 'a religious poet for a secular age', and by Les Murray as 'a poet for the new chastened, unenforcing age of faith that has just dawned. ' Although rooted in the English lyric tradition, his work draws on the language of science (especially genetics and genomics), theology and philosophy.
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  • Michael Symmons Roberts is a British poet. He has published five collections of poetry, all with Cape (Random House), and has won the Whitbread Poetry Award, as well as major prizes from the Arts Council and Society of Authors. He has been shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize (twice), the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize. He has also written novels, libretti for operas and texts for oratorios and song cycles.
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  • Michael Symmons Roberts
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