Anthony Anaxagorou

Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, and publisher. Anaxagorou’s poetry collection After the Formalities (Penned in the Margins, 2019) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2019 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections. His subsequent collection Heritage Aesthetics (Granta Poetry, 2022) won the Ondaatje Prize, was shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award. He is also the author of two other poetry collections, the craft book How To Write It (Merky Books, 2020) and the short story collection The Blink That Killed the Eye (Jacaranda Books, 2014). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Anaxagorou is the founder and artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, and the publisher of Out-Spoken Press. He is the editor-in-chief of Propel Magazine and the founder and curator of WriteBack.