Michael Symmons Roberts

Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire, in 1963. He has published three previous books of poetry, Soft Keys (1993), Raising Sparks (1999) and Burning Babylon (2001) and is a frequent collaborator with the composer James MacMillan. He is also an award-winning radio writer, and makes documentary films for the BBC. Michael Symmons Roberts’s book of poetry Corpus, published by Jonathan Cape, was short-listed for the T S Eliot Prize 2004. Bloomsbury Theatre, Gordon Street, London, UK, 16th of January 2005

Date: 16/01/2005

Location: Bloomsbury, London, UK

Photographer: Richard Keith Wolff

Michael Symmons Roberts

Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire, in 1963. He has published three previous books of poetry, Soft Keys (1993), Raising Sparks (1999) and Burning Babylon (2001) and is a frequent collaborator with the composer James MacMillan. He is also an award-winning radio writer, and makes documentary films for the BBC. Michael Symmons Roberts’s book of poetry Corpus, published by Jonathan Cape, was short-listed for the T S Eliot Prize 2004. Bloomsbury Theatre, Gordon Street, London, UK, 16th of January 2005

Date: 16/01/2005

Location: Bloomsbury, London, UK

Photographer: Richard Keith Wolff