Raymond Antrobus

Raymond Antrobus is the author of three poetry titles: The Perseverance, All The Names Given and Signs, Music; and two children’s 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 ever poet to be awarded the Rathbones 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. The Quiet Ear, his first work of prose, is a groundbreaking exploration of deafness.

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Featuring Talks By:
Raymond Antrobus
Jay Griffiths
Stephen Grosz
Mary Keen

5 Speakers, 15 Minutes Each - December 2025

5x15 welcomes a line-up of inspiring speakers and fascinating stories in December, from histories of deafness and learning how to love, to the healing nature of plants and animals.