Raymond Antrobus is the author of four poetry titles: To Sweeten Bitter, The Perseverance, All The Names Given and Signs, Music and two picture books: Can Bears Ski? and Terrible Horses. His work has won the Ted Hughes Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and his poems have been added to GCSE syllabi. In 2019, Raymond became the first poet to ever be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020 and appointed an MBE in 2021.

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