THE QUIET EAR
An Investigation of Missing Sound
A ground-breaking exploration of deafness,
“A moving and expansive book about the long journey of finding a voice, and the joy and power of using it”
Seán HewittAuthor of All Down Darkness Wide
His work has won the Ted Hughes Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and his poems have been added to GCSE syllabi.
In 2019 Raymond became the first ever poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020 and appointed an MBE in 2021. The Quiet Ear is his first work of prose.
“Raymond Antrobus is as searching a poet as you're likely to find writing today.”
Kaveh AkbarPoet and author of Calling a Wolf a Wolf
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From children’s books to award-winning poetry collections.
”Passionate but speaking from his scars, not his wounds — this is a poet you sense very deeply that you can trust.
Rev. Canon Mark OakleyJudge of the Ted Hughes Award
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