Anthony Anaxagorou FRSL is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, and publisher.
His third collection, Heritage Aesthetics, published with Granta Poetry in 2022, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2023 and was shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League’s Runciman Award. It was listed as one of the New Statesman’s top books of 2022.
His second collection, After the Formalities, published with Penned in the Margins, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2019 T.S. Eliot Prize along with the 2021 Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections. It was also a Telegraph and Guardian poetry book of the year.
In 2020, he published How To Write It with Merky Books; a practical guide fused with tips and memoir looking at the politics of writing as well as the craft of poetry and fiction, along with the wider publishing industry.
Anthony is artistic director of Out-Spoken, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, and publisher of Out-Spoken Press. He is the editor-in-chief of Propel Magazine, an online literary journal featuring the work of poets yet to publish a first collection, and the founder and curator of WriteBack, a quarterly literary series held at the British Library.
In 2019, he was made an honorary fellow at the University of Roehampton. In 2023, he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
