His poetry has won the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award, and been shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize. He has received major awards from the Arts Council and the Society of Authors. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and of the English Association.-website
The Half-Healed
The Half-Healed
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Michael Symmons Roberts's fifth poetry collection delves into a world fractured by violence and betrayal, both between nations and individuals. These metaphysical poems are grounded in physical details, featuring displaced and disguised bodies in need of rescue. Characters like a man in a fox suit and a vixen dressed as a man navigate a damaged reality, while God observes a broken city in the early hours. Amidst this, a couple finds solace in an act of love, celebrating armistice in an anonymous hotel room.
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The Half-HealedUnknown, 2010
80 pages
Penguin Random HouseLanguage: EnglishISBN: 9781407092768
