Simon Rae

Simon Rae is a British

's National Poetry Competition in 1999 and has also been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and a Southern Arts Literature Bursary and held Royal Literary Fund fellowships at Oxford Brookes and Warwick Universities. His play Grass won a Fringe Highlight award in 2002.

Rae presented Radio 4's Poetry Please for five years and wrote a regular topical poem for the Saturday Guardian for ten years. His most recent book of poems was Gift Horses, published in 2006 by Enitharmon Press.

He has written a biography of the

: W.G.Grace: A Life (Faber, 1998).

Sources

• Simon Rae, poet, broadcaster, biographer, playwright website
• Royal Literary Fund -Simon Rae website
• Simon Rae - Playwright website
• Top Edge Productions website
• Enitharmon Press website
• Radio 4 - Poetry Please website