Raymond Antrobus

Poet and writer from the UK. Raymond Antrobus MBE FRSL (born 1986) is a British poet, educator and writer, who as a deaf spoken-word poet has been performing poetry since 2007. In March 2019 he won the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry. In May 2019 Antrobus became the first poet to win the Rathbones Folio Prize for his collection "The Perseverance", praised by chair of the judges Kate Clanchy as "an immensely moving book of poetry which uses his D/deaf experience, bereavement and Jamaican-British heritage to consider the ways we all communicate with each other." He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020.