Poet Raymond Antrobus has won the £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize for his “brave” debut collection. Poet Raymond Antrobus has won the £30,000 Rathbones Folio Prize for his “brave” debut collection. He was named the Rathbones Folio Prize at a ceremony on Monday May 20, and is the first poet to receive the accolade. Paul Stockton, chief executive of Rathbones, said: “Sincere congratulations from all of us at Rathbones to Raymond Antrobus for winning the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 with his book The Perseverance. “It is an impressive feat to be singled out amongst such a diverse and impressive shortlist, and is very well deserved.”Launched in 2013, the Rathbones Folio Prize judges all books on merit, whether fiction or non-fiction, with an academy of writers.

Source: Irish Independent May 20, 2019 18:45 UTC