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Raymond Antrobus

Poet / Writer / Educator / Investigator Of Missing Sounds

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February 07, 2025 / Raymond Antrobus

Solidarity with everyone marching against the disability cuts today, tomorrow, forever. Follow @scopecharity & @mindcharity & other disability charities who have templates for forms to help you fill in to send to your local MPs

This week I’m back in Scotland, St Andrews for @stanzapoetry — Reading with Welsh poet, Gwyneth Lewis on Saturday 15th March, Byre Theatre. 7pm.

Thanks @songlinesmagazine for spotlighting ‘Another Noise’, my live recorded spoken word album with the great @dameevelynglennie

Seen by @jazzgrantstudio

7pm Friday 7th Feb, I’ll be speaking with poet, playwright & performance artist @arianareines at @tomthumbtheatre hosted by @themargatebookshop

January 31st. 6.30pm. Join us. I’ve curated one night of poetry & music in the @britishmuseum in response to @hewdjlocke (incredible) exhibition, ‘what have we here?’. Featuring @pabitez @parkinsbrown @fxmpoetry @courtneyconrad

Thank you @tseliotprize & fellow shortlisted poets, thanks to everyone that came to the reading / tuned in virtually. Congratulations to @p.g.gizzi on winning the prize for ‘Fierce Elegy’. The whole thing was a beautiful experience. ?

If you picked up copies of ‘Terrible Horses’, ‘Signs, Music’ &/or streamed/listened to ‘Another Noise’ in 2024, thank you. Happy holidays & see you in 2025.

My last reading of the year was momentous, taking place in @guggenheim & curated by @meg.day & reviewed in The New York Times.

“For Sound/Off, Day decided to bring together deaf and hard-of-hearing poets (among them were Sam Rush, Ray

Edinburgh. A privilege to be invited by Qian Zephaniah (Benjamin’s wife) to honour his life & legacy. Also, great to read with poet @niallcpoetry & speak on the tradition of poetry & parenthood. Walking around the city I saw portrai

Atlanta, it did good seeing you. Thanks to everyone that made it out to a reading.

Inspiration for my BSL/Visual Vernacular Ekphrasis poem inspired by ‘Dynamic Disks, 1933’ by Franti&scaron;ek Kupka, now showing at @guggenheim

Thumbs up to everyone that came to the @hackneylibraries reading last night for our much missed, much loved friend, Gboyega Odujano. 📸 @seanpollockphoto

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'Can Bears Ski?' has won the Honouree Ezra Jack Keats Award

Raymond Antrobus

Welcoming Michael Rosen to the hearing aid club.

Last readings of 2022. Lagos.

Looking forward to my upcoming BBC World service documentary, ‘Recaptive Number 11,407” being aired next week. It’s already a Radio Times pick of the day. Tune in on Tuesday Oct 25th at 8pm or catch it on BBC Sounds. It comes with a

Proud to have been awarded one of the 2022 Editors Prize's for my @zoeglossia keynote speech/essay, 'Poetry, Disability, and Vigilance' by Poetry Magazine (@poetryfoundation) I give thanks to the editors and judges.

Just some of my reading company this week. @kwame.dawes @poettanyashirley @rogerrobinsononline Olive Senior @owensheers8a50 & a long overdue reconnection with my education professor from Goldsmith’s University, Vicky Macleroy.

portrait by @d_kakembo included in the ‘My Words’ exhibition hosted by @museumofcolour presenting poets that have been present in the UK from 1780 - 2016.

I have a new poem published this month in The Poetry Review, so the editors (@hannahlowepoet & @kim_moore_poet) asked me to make a mixtape of other people’s poems (OPP) that I’ve read this year that gave me “poem envy”. Th

Thanks @_jeevika at @npr for writing up on the poems & sounds collected on my collaboration record with Ian Brennan. I was just going through some family archives & found cassette tapes of recordings my mum made of poets like Adrian Mitchell

Here’s a preview of ‘Terrible Horses’. My next picture book with @bigpicturebooks illustrated by @wilsonmaxken out in 2024.

To Jersey Festival of Words, Olivia, Pippa, my red shoed BSL interpreter Bernadette & the charismatic English students at Le Rocquier Secondary who asked poignant questions about language & family, I give thanks. Special shout out to their ca

September. School has begun. Here are the poems included on the new Oxford, Cambridge & RSA GCSE Curriculum. Proud to have poems that keep this kind of company. (Swipe)

Just finished recording the script & the previews for my BBC World Service documentary, titled “Recaptive Number 11407”, airing on October 25th 2022. Many thanks to the Free Town team; Ibrahim, Harold, Sarran, Robin & Ant pictured

a year of parenting.

While living & teaching poetry in Oklahoma City I began journaling about ableism, language & the poets Juan Ramón Jiménez, @meg.day & John Kitto. This writing became a keynote speech that I gave opening the 2021 Zooglossia r

‘The First Time I Wore Hearing Aids’ is a 16 track collaboration poetry album I recorded with Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan. Brennan is known globally for his field recordings, sound experiments & championing music & languag

Thank you @edbookfest — thanks for providing all access needs for my readings & to the poet Heather H. Yeung for chairing such an engaged & joyous discussion around ‘All The Names Given’. Thanks too, to all the young readers

A beautifully challenging collaboration set by @burleyfisher was to sit in a jam session with the poet @victoriaadukweibulley & four musicians meeting for the first time (Kamasi Washington, Sampha, Saya Grey & Valentina Magaletti) & write

From Scotland, Wales, UK to Nigeria. Here’s my last reading dates for the year. Hope to see you at one of these events.