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About the Author
SIMON RAE is a poet, prose writer and broadcaster. For a decade he wrote topical poems for the Guardian, and for five of those years he presented Radio 4's Poetry Please! In 1998 Faber published his definitive biography of W.G.Grace, and the following year he won the National Poetry Competition. Prose works include It's Not Cricket (Faber), and the children's novels Unplayable (Top Edge Press) and Medusa's Butterfly (Corgi). He has published several anthologies, including The Faber Book of Murder and The Faber Books of Christmas, and with Michael Hulse edited The 20th Century in Poetry (Ebury). He has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at three universities and has recently completed two years at St Hilda's College, Oxford. He plays cricket with ever-decreasing competence and divides his time between Oxfordshire and Wales.
Book Information
ISBN 9781910533444
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Nine Elms Books
Publisher Nine Elms Books