Raymond Antrobus & Ilya Kaminsky
Two explosive poetic voices come together to dive into how poetry can speak to, witness and challenge the world around us.
Be in the crowd for this pairing of two of the most compelling voices to emerge onto the poetry scene in recent years.
Raymond Antrobus is an award-winning poet and author whose work explores sound, identity and belonging. He is the winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize, Ted Hughes Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.
Ilya Kaminsky is the author of Deaf Republic and a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. He was named as a BBC ‘artist who changed the world in 2019’. Born in Odesa, Ukraine, he arrived in the US in 1993 when his family were granted asylum.
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