Welcome to Zoeglossia’s Poem of the Week Series, curated by Raymond Antrobus.
Captions & A Dream For John T Williams of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth tribe
by Raymond Antrobus
Raymond Antrobus sitting and facing forward with his hands gathered in his lap.
Raymond Antrobus was born in London to an English mother and Jamaican father. He’s a Cave Canem Fellow and the author of 'To Sweeten Bitter' (UK, Out-Spoken Press), ‘The Perseverance’ (UK, Penned In The Margins / US, Tin House) and ‘All The Names Given’ (US, Tin House / UK, Picador) as well as a children’s picture book ‘Can Bears Ski?’ (Candlewick). He is the 2019 recipient of the Ted Hughes Award as well as the Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award, and became the first ever poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize. His first full length collection, ‘The Perseverance’ was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and The Forward Prize. He divides his time between Oklahoma City and London.
For more information visit his website.