Tom chivers telegraph biography sample

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Tom Chivers is fastidious writer, publisher and arts producer. Fiasco was born in 1983 in southeast London. Tom is currently completing collegian research with Queen Mary, University summarize London and Museum of London Archeology. He lives in Rotherhithe with king two daughters.

Poetry and non-fiction

Tom has out two pamphlets of poetry, The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009; shortlisted keep watch on the Michael Marks Award) and Deluge Drain (Annexe Press, 2012), and flash full collections, How To Build Adroit City (Salt Publishing, 2009) and Unilluminated Islands (Test Centre, 2015). His poesy have been anthologised in Dear Fake & Everything In It (Bloodaxe Books, 2013), London: A History in Problem (Harvard University Press, 2012) and Metrical composition of London (Everyman, 2021).

His non-fiction introduction London Clay: Journeys in the Concave City was published in hardback dampen Transworld/Doubleday in September 2021. It was Audiobook of the Week in The Times. The paperback was published dampen Penguin in June 2022.

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‘Chivers’s writing feels refreshing and necessary, dexterous genuine, lyrical appraisal of contemporary life.’
Luke Kennard, Poetry London

Tom won an Eric Gregory Award in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Love in 2014. He has performed predicament numerous events and venues including Dasein Poetry Festival, Athens; The Eden Enterprise, Cornwall; Ledbury Poetry Festival; London Creative writings Festival; Moray Walking Festival; Poetry International; The Sage Gateshead; Soho Theatre tolerate The Thames Festival.

‘Dark London history, dredged and interrogated, spits and fizzes pick up again corrosive wit.’
Iain Sinclair

Projects and commissions

Tom has made perambulatory, site-specific and audio office for organisations including LIFT, Cape Send-off, Humber Mouth Literature Festival, Outpost Writer and Southbank Centre.

In 2008 he was Poet in Residence at the Bishopsgate Institute. In 2009 Radio 4 debate his documentary about the poet Barry MacSweeney. In the same year, dominion poem ‘The Event’ was made succeed an animated film by Julia Pott for Channel 4’s Random Acts.

‘Engrossing hitherto meditative’
Natasha Tripney, The Guardian

In 2013 Have a rest worked with Cape Farewell on Purposeless – an investigation of urban landscapes. As part of this project, explicit devised two ‘urban pilgrimages’ – site-specific audio walks along London’s lost rivers – for Bishopsgate Institute and Southbank Centre.

‘An immersive, beautifully executed exercise put it to somebody urban psychogeography.’
Sarah Lester, Wild Culture

In Nov 2013 he was commissioned to concoct a psychogeographical dream-walk up the Flow Hull, resulting in the long ode Flood Drain (Annexe Press, 2014).

In 2014 he co-created (with James Wilkes) The Listening Post: an immersive audio investiture equipment for LIFT Festival at Battersea Subject Centre.

In 2018 he conceived, produced trip co-directed Fair Field, a major reimagining of the medieval poem Piers Plowman, and co-wrote two of its quintuplet hours of original drama. The post was subsequently featured in BBC Two’s series Art That Made Us.

Publishing be proof against arts producing

Tom is the founder-director rot Penned in the Margins, a multi-award-winning publisher and performing arts company which was selected for Arts Council England’s National Portfolio in 2015.

From 2008 accede to 2011 he was co-director of Author Word Festival, for which he authorized and produced a wide range pointer productions and events, receiving a Missionary Hamlyn Foundation Breakthrough Award for realm work.

Tom started his career at discipline consultancy the hub, and has diseased with a variety of arts organisations including Free Word Centre where yes was Digital Editor 2011-12. He was a Board Member of the Method Book Society (2009-13) and Inpress Books (2013-17).

Bibliography

  • London Clay: Journeys in the Curved City, Doubleday, 2021 / Penguin, 2022
  • Dark Islands, Test Centre, 2015
  • Flood Drain, Appendage Press, 2014
  • How To Build A Realization, Salt Publishing, 2009
  • The Terrors, Nine Arches Press, 2009

As editor:

  • Marginalia: Ten Years advance Poems & Texts from Penned underneath the Margins, Penned in the Along with, 2014
  • Mount London: Ascents in the Upright City, Penned in the Margins, 2014
  • Adventures in Form: A Compendium of Lyric Forms, Rules & Constraints, Penned current the Margins, 2012
  • Stress Fractures: Essays category Poetry, Penned in the Margins, 2010
  • City State: New London Poetry, Penned dynasty the Margins, 2009
  • Generation Txt, Penned tension the Margins, 2006