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          Michael Symmons Roberts talks to John Drury about doing the life and work of a poet who isn't Donne..

          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.

          Written in for George McPhee's 40th anniversary as Director of Music Michael Symmons Roberts exploring themes of birth, new life and new impulses.

        1. Written in for George McPhee's 40th anniversary as Director of Music Michael Symmons Roberts exploring themes of birth, new life and new impulses.
        2. George Szirtes was born in Budapest in Since coming to England in he has studied and taught art and writing.
        3. Michael Symmons Roberts talks to John Drury about doing the life and work of a poet who isn't Donne.
        4. Michael's continuing collaboration with composer James MacMillan has led to two BBC Proms choral commissions, song cycles, music theatre works and operas.
        5. I'm a poet.

          6. 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 was born in 1963 in Preston, Lancashire, and read Philosophy and Theology at Oxford University, going on to become a journalist and radio producer, and then Executive Producer and Head of Development for BBC Religion and Ethics.

          He gave this career up to concentrate on his writing.

          He came to major attention with his fourth collection,