Tony Roberts

Tony Roberts (born 1949) is a contemporary English poet and critic. Biography Roberts was born in Doncaster. He was educated at the then Didsbury College and, on a Drapers’ Company of London Scholarship, at The College of William and Mary in Virginia, where he completed an M.A. in literature. After teaching in Williamsburg he returned to Manchester and taught in Bolton schools for over thirty years, before taking early retirement to focus on his writing. Roberts's poetry has appeared in a wide variety of magazines, including 'Agenda', ‘Encounter’, 'P.N.Review', ‘Poetry Review’, ‘The Spectator’, ‘Stand’ and ‘The Southern Review’. A poem from his Drawndark collection appeared as the Saturday poem in ‘The Guardian’ in 2015. Other poems of his have won prizes in poetry competitions over the years and his work appeared in the anthologies Accompanied Voices (2015), and Strike Up The Band (2017). Al Alvarez has described Roberts's poetry as having ‘an authentic adult voice, tender, ironic, relaxed and highly educated’.