Robert Saxton was born in Nottingham 1952. He is the author of four poetry collections, the most recent being Hesiod’s Calendar (Carcanet, 2010). In 2001 he won the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association’s poetry prize for ‘The Nightingale Broadcasts’. He has won commendations in recent years in the National Poetry Competition, the Poetry London Competition and the Troubadour Poetry Competition.