Tom Chivers

Tom is a writer, publisher and arts producer. He was born in 1983 in south London. He has released two pamphlets and two collections of poetry, the latest being "Dark Islands" (Test Centre, 2015). His poems have been anthologised in "Dear World and Everything in it" and "London: A History in Verse". He was shortlisted for the Michael marks and Edwin Morgan Poetry Awards and received an Eric Gregory Award in 2011.

Tom has made perambulatory, site-specific and audio work for organisations including LIFT, Cape Farewell, Humber Mouth and Southbank Centre. hew was writer-in-residence at Bishopsgate Institute and Assoicate artist at the National Centre of Writing. In 2009 he presented a documentary for BBC Radio 4 about the poet Barry McSweeney. In 2011 an animated film of his poem "The Event" was broadcast by Channel 4's Random Acts. He lives in Rotherhithe (south London) with his wife and daughters.

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