Award-winning poet Raymond Antrobus was first diagnosed as deaf at the age of six when he discovered he had missing sounds \u2013 bird calls, whistles, kettles, alarms. Teachers thought he was slow and disruptive, some didn\u2019t believe he was deaf at all.<\/p>\n
Raymond discusses his memoir, The Quiet Ear, setting his story alongside those of other D\/deaf cultural figures \u2013 from painters to silent film stars, poets to performers \u2013 the inspiring models of D\/deaf creativity he did not have growing up.<\/p>\n
This event is BSL Interpreted.<\/p>\n
About Raymond Antrobus
\nRaymond Antrobus is the author of four poetry titles: To Sweeten Bitter (Out-Spoken Press), The Perseverance (Penned in the Margins), All The Names Given and Signs, Music (Picador). Raymond’s poems have been added to GCSE syllabi, and his work has won the Ted Hughes Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. In 2019 he became the first ever poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre. He is also the author of a children’s book, Can Bears Ski? (Walkers Books), which became the first story to be broadcast on the BBC entirely in British Sign Language. Raymond was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020 and appointed an MBE in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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