Paul Batchelor’s first collection of poems, The Sinking Road, was published by Bloodaxe in 2008, and his pamphlet The Love Darg appeared with Clutag in 2014. He has won the Times Stephen Spender Prize for Translation and the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Prize, is poetry critic at the New Statesman and also writes criticism for the Guardian and the TLS.

Batchelor will be taking part in The Centre for New Writing’s panel discussion The Future of the Past