Anthony Anaxagorou FRSL is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, 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. It was listed as one of New Statesman’s top books of 2022.
His second collection, After the Formalities published with Penned in the Margins, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize along with the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections. It was also a Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year.
Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre. He is the editor-in-chief of Propel Magazine, an online literary journal and the founder of WriteBack, a quarterly literary series held at the British Library.
Website: anthonyanaxagorou.com/
Instagram: @anthony_anaxagorou