Anthony Anaxagorou

Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-Cypriot poet, fiction writer, educator, and publisher born in 1983 in London. He is the founder of Poetry School and has taught poetry in schools, prisons, and community settings for over fifteen years. His collections include After the Formalities (2019) and Heritage Aesthetics (2023). Heritage Aesthetics (2023, Granta) is his sixth collection and his most formally ambitious, an expansive exploration of heritage, language, Blackness, and British life that moves between the lyric and the political with unusual precision. It won the RSL Ondaatje Prize in 2023. Anaxagorou has been a prominent voice in British poetry culture, particularly in his advocacy for more diverse representation in the literary world. He has been a judge for several major prizes and is widely regarded as one of the most important poets working in Britain today.