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Anthony Anaxagorou FRSL is a poet, essayist and publisher.
His third collection, Heritage Aesthetics published with Granta Poetry in 2022, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award.
His second collection, After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize, along with the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections.
His other published titles include How To Write It with Merky Books and The Blink That Killed the Eye, a collection of short stories published with Jacaranda in 2013.
Anthony is the founder and artistic director of Out-Spoken Live, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press.
His forthcoming collection Speech Acts will be published with Fitzcarraldo Editions in Spring 2027.