Michael Symmons Symmons Roberts

Corpus

Costa Book Award Poetry 2004

by Michael Symmons Symmons Roberts

Corpus - Michael Symmons Roberts' Whitbread-Prize winning fourth collection - centres around the body. Mystical, philosophical and erotic, the bodies in these poems move between different worlds - life and after-life,...

Burning Babylon

by Michael Symmons Symmons Roberts

In his first two collections - Soft Keys and Raising Sparks - Michael Symmons Roberts established himself as a lyric and dramatic poet with metaphysical concerns. In this new collection, those concerns are as...

Raising Sparks

by Michael Symmons Symmons Roberts

After his first collection - SOFT KEYS - Michael Symmons Roberts was hailed by Les Murray as 'a poet for the new, chastened, unenforcing age of faith that has just dawned'. The metaphysical concerns of that...

Soft Keys

by Michael Symmons Symmons Roberts

When Corpus won the Whitbread Poetry Award, the judges described it as 'an outstanding, perfectly weighted collection that inspires meditation on the nature of the soul...reading it feels like making an exciting...

The Half Healed

by Michael Symmons Symmons Roberts

The poems in Michael Symmons Roberts's fifth collection move in a world riven by violence and betrayal, between nations and individuals. As ever, this is a metaphysical poetry rooted in physical detail - but...