Harry Man

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Harry Man is a poet, translator and visual artist.

‘Lift’, his first pamphlet, won the UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award
and he was a Northern Writers' Awards co-winner with Suzannah Evans.

Harry Man won the Stephen Spender Prize
and has been a Clarissa Luard Wordsworth Trust Poet in Residence,
a TOAST poet, a Das Haus and a Hawthornden Fellow.

He is the artistic director, technologist and playwright in
children's theatre company Fully Booked Theatre with
Canadian contemporary dance choreographer Jennifer Essex.

He has been shortlisted for Tees Valley Artist of the Year 2024
and his work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC Tees and at festivals
internationally including Poetry International, Rotterdam, T-Junction,
Winchester Poetry Festival and Stockton International Riverside Festival.

In 2018 his work was selected for Poem of North by the Northern Poetry Library.

He is a Royal Literary Fund Bridge Fellow.

His pamphlet Utøya Thereafter ('Thereafter') co-written with Endre Ruset
was a Broken Sleep Books Book of the Year 2023.

His first collection Popular Song is available from Nine Arches Press
and was shortlisted for a Gladstone's Library Writer in Residence Award 2026

Noriaki, a collection of poems about Olympic ski jump champion
Noriaki Kasai featuring a foreword by bestselling crime writer Jo Nesbø,
written by Endre Ruset and translated by Harry Man
is available from Broken Sleep Books.

His latest pamphlets are The Place at the End of the Rapids,
a collaboration with photographer Phil Hill (Out of Place Books 2026)
and impressions (If a Leaf Falls 2026) poetry on artificial intelligence and
its use of stolen artistic work.

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“The poems are packed to bursting with ideas... Harry Man is one of a young generation of poets
defining their own ground and changing ours.” - George Szirtes

Latest Publications

“Tall Lighthouse has a habit of spotting talent, having published Helen Mort's first two pamphlets.
Here, Harry Man looks a poet unique and bold enough to follow in those footsteps.
Lift is a debut pamphlet that takes off into orbit, mixing science fiction and science fact, past and future,
with language and imagery that sparkles with life. Poems arise from gaming platforms and social media,
from time machines and rocket ships, and are sewn with a passion and humour by a poetic voice which displays
an endearing understanding of what it is to be human.”

Poetry Book Society