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          Michael Symmons Roberts FRSL (born ) is a British poet..

          Michael Symmons Roberts

          British poet

          Michael Symmons RobertsFRSL (born 1963) is a British poet.

          He has published eight collections of poetry, all with Cape (Random House), and has won the Forward Prize, the Costa Book Award and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, as well as major prizes from the Arts Council and Society of Authors.

          He has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. He has also written novels, libretti and texts for oratorios and song cycles.

          PERSONAL: Born October 13, , in Preston, Lancashire, England; son of David Symmons and Iris (Corcoran) Roberts; married Ruth Humphreys, ;.

        1. PERSONAL: Born October 13, , in Preston, Lancashire, England; son of David Symmons and Iris (Corcoran) Roberts; married Ruth Humphreys, ;.
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          6. He regularly writes and presents documentaries and dramas for broadcasting and is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.

          Life and career

          Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire, and spent his childhood in Lancashire before moving south with his family to Newbury in Berkshire in the early '70s.

          He went to comprehensive school in Newbury, then to Regent's Park College, Oxford to read Philosophy and Theology. After graduating, he trained a