Robert Powell was born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, and now lives in York. He has worked for many years in the fields of journalism, photography, the arts and urbanism, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
He has published three collections of poetry, Harvest of Light (Stone Flower, 2007), All (Valley Press, 2015) and Riverain (Valley Press, 2018) as well as an artist’s book and exhibition, A Small Box of River (2016) in collaboration with artist Jake Attree. He won the 2012 Elmet Prize judged by Kathleen Jamie, was commended in the 2017 National Poetry Competition, and his poems and stories have appeared in Acumen, Dream Catcher, Orbis, The North and The Rialto. In 2017, he wrote and co-produced, with Ben Pugh, The River Speaks, a short film funded by the Canal & River Trust ‘Arts on the Waterways’ programme.
A fourth collection, Lost and Found, was published by Valley Press in November 2021.
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