Raymond Antrobus

Raymond Antrobus was born in London, Hackney, to an English mother and a Jamaican father. He is the author of three poetry collections: Signs, Music (Tin House, 2024); All The Names Given (Tin House, 2021); and The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins, 2018).

Antrobus has also published two children’s picture books: Terrible Horses (Candlewick, 2024), illustrated by Ken Wilson-Max, and Can Bears Ski? (Candlewick, 2020), illustrated by Polly Dunbar. He is also the author of the memoir The Quiet Ear
An Investigation of Missing Sound (Hogarth, 2025). He has hosted a number of award-winning radio documentaries, including Inventions in Sound (BBC Radio 4, 2021).

A Cave Canem graduate, Antrobus is a recipient of the Ted Hughes Award, the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award, and a Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. He was short-listed for the T. S. Eliot Prize in both 2021 and 2024, as well as for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize for Poetry. In 2018, he was awarded the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize (judged by Ocean Vuong) for his poem “Sound Machine.”

A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in the United Kingdom and a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow, Antrobus divides his time between England and New Orleans.