About the Author

ROBERT SAXTON was born in Nottingham in 1952 and now lives in north London, where he is the editorial director of an illustrated book publishing company. His first collection of poetry, The Promise Clinic, was published by Enitharmon Press in 1994. He is also represented in Faber's Poetry Introduction 7 and the Carcanet/OxfordPoets anthology Oxford Poets 2001. In 2001 he won the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association's poetry prize for 'The Nightingale Broadcasts'.