Tom Chivers is a writer, publisher and arts producer. He was born
in 1983 in south London. He has released two pamphlets and two
collections of poetry, the latest being Dark Islands (Test Centre,
2015). His poems have been anthologized in Dear World & Everything
In It and London: A History in Verse. He was shortlisted for the
Michael Marks and Edwin Morgan Poetry Awards and received an Eric
Gregory Award in 2011.
Tom has made perambulatory, site-specific and audio work for
organisations including LIFT, Cape Farewell, Humber Mouth and
Southbank Centre. He was writer in residence at Bishopsgate
Institute and associate artist of the National Centre of Writing.
In 2009 he presented a documentary for BBC Radio 4 about the poet
Barry MacSweeney. In 2011 an animated film of his poem 'The Event'
was broadcast by Channel 4's Random Acts. He lives in Rotherhithe
with his wife and daughters.
Will open readers' eyes to what is around and below them ... Its
delight in exploration is matched by a thoughtful meditation on
grief.
*Economist*
Periodic surprises even for the most dedicated student of this
subject ... movingly written.
*Spectator*
Incredible ... More than a simply a cracking read, it's a book that
will inspire you to go out and make your own discoveries. You'll
never look at the city in the same way again.
*Londonist*
London Clay by Tom Chivers, is perfect. He brings a poet's
sensibility to this prose nonfiction book about the hidden parts of
the capital, mixing the past with the present, the known with the
unknown and his personal story with social history and geology.
*Bernardine Evaristo, author of Girl, Woman, Other*
[Chivers] combines the modern phenomenon of psycho-geographer with
the ancient trade of poet ...
Action-packed, erudite... an audiobook to savour slowly.
*The Times*
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