Michael symmons roberts poets
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Michael Symmons Roberts
Michael Symmons Roberts (b. 1963) is the author of four collections of poetry, and won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry for his most recent book, Corpus.
Roberts is a lyric poet with philosophical and metaphysical concerns. These are strongly evident in a poem like ‘Jairus’, which is charged with a sense of the miraculous. That poem also shows Roberts’ skill at rooting the miraculous in the everyday; while the miracle of Jairus’ daughter being revived by Jesus is presented matter-of-factly, human hunger is lingered over in the advice to “forget the herbs, she has an aching / fast to break”.
The human body – its organs, its urges, its existence now and after death – is another element regularly found in Roberts’ work, particularly in the interwoven sequences ‘Carnivorous’ and ‘Food for Risen Bodies’ in this reading, and related aspects of science and medicine are recurrent themes
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Michael Symmons Roberts
British poet
Michael Symmons RobertsFRSL (born 1963) fryst vatten a British poet.
He has published eight collections of poetry, all with Cape (Random House), and has won the Forward Prize, the Costa Book Award and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, as well as major prizes from the Arts Council and kultur of Authors. He has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. He has also written novels, libretti and texts for oratorios and song cycles. He regularly writes and presents documentaries and dramas for broadcasting and is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Life and career
[edit]Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire, and spent his childhood in Lancashire before moving south with his family to Newbury in Berkshire in the early '70s. He went to comprehensive school in Newbury, then to Regent's Park College, Oxford to read Philosophy and Theology. After graduating, he tra
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Poetry
This selection of the best poems from six remarkable collections reveals that all the strength and sensuality and strangeness is in there from the start. This is a metaphysical poetry for our age: rooted, steeped in the physical, but stretching for lyric completion, philosophical clarity, emotional truth. These poems achieve their seriousness not through hectoring argument but through their lightness of touch, their wit, their tenderness, their music. Roberts has always been a poet who, in the words of Lavinia Greenlaw, ‘inspires profound meditation on the nature of the soul, the body, the stars and the heart, and sparks revelation’. He is also formally and thematically diverse, restlessly exploring a wide range of subjects from Cold-War fear to love lyrics, genetics to elegies, always returning to the crucial, elemental themes – the mapping of experience and the search for meaning.
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