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Michael Symmons Roberts
Biography
Michael Symmons Roberts is a poet, librettist and novelist. His poetry is known for its expression of spiritual concerns through physical – especially bodily – realities, earning him the reputation of a modern metaphysical poet.Michael symmons roberts biography of george
He remains one of the few poets in Britain who are writing overtly religious poetry in a way that engages with modern tropes, and modern doubt.
The novelist Jeanette Winterson has written of Symmons Roberts that he “is a religious poet in a secular age.
His work is about the connection between the things of the spirit and the things of the world. And his work is about transcendence.”
He gave this career up to concentrate on his writing.
He came to major attention with his fourth collection,