Sail, Lawrence

 

Lawrence Sail’s Waking Dreams: New & selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2010) was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation: his most recent collection is The Quick (Bloodaxe Books, 2015).He has been chairman of the Arvon Foundation, a judge for the Whitbread Book of the Year and the Eric Gregory Awards, and director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. Enitharmon has brought out a selection of his Christmas poems, Songs of the Darkness (2010), and Cross-currents (2005), a book of essays. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.