Robert Hamberger’s poetry has been broadcast on Radio 4 and published in The Observer, New Statesman, The Spectator, Poetry Review and Gay Times. Robert has been awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship, chosen for the Alternative Generation promotion and has been shortlisted for a Forward prize. He has been featured on the Guardian Poem of the Week website. Recently his poems have been published in The North 51 and 52 and have appeared in British, American and Japanese anthologies. He was first prizewinner in Chroma’sInternational Queer Writing Competition, 2006. In Chroma Mark Doty said: "Robert Hamberger writes remarkably sensuous poetry, creating its own memorably forceful, dynamic encounter of body and spirit". He has published six poetry pamphlets, including The Rule of Earth (Smith/Doorstop) and Heading North (Flarestack, 2007), a sequence about John Clare. His full-length collections are Warpaint Angel (Blackwater, 1997),The Smug Bridegroom (Five Leaves, 2002) and Torso (Redbeck Press, 2007). His fourth collection Blue Wallpaper is forthcoming from Waterloo Press. He lives in Brighton.