Michael Symmons Roberts is a poet, librettist and dramatist. He has published eight collections of poetry including Drysalter (2013) which won the Forward Prize and the Costa Poetry Prize and Corpus (2004) which won the Whitbread Poetry Award and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. His latest collection, Ransom (2021) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the English Association, he is Professor of Poetry at Manchester...