‘Harry Man’s poems fizz and zing with ideas, humour, passion and playfulness. It’s a joy to follow the thread of each piece. Often he leads us on a bold, fantastical journey, finally setting us down somewhere we couldn’t envisage but immediately recognise.’
- Heidi Williamson

Harry Man is an award-winning poet, playwright, editor, visual artist and translator based in the North East of England. His work has appeared widely in literary journals, anthologies and on BBC Radio 4, and has been translated into over eleven languages including Arabic, German, Chinese, Swedish, Slovak, French and Norweigan.

His debut poetry collection, Popular Song (Nine Arches Press, 2024), followed a series of acclaimed pamphlets and collaborative works. Lift won the UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award and was shortlisted for a Saboteur Award, while Finders Keepers — written in collaboration with artist Sophie Gainsley — was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. His collaboration with Norwegian poet Endre Ruset, Utøya Thereafter (Hercules Editions, 2021), included poems that won the Stephen Spender Prize for poetry in translation.

Alongside his poetry, Harry writes children’s theatre for Fully Booked Theatre, with productions performed at venues and festivals including The Royal Opera House, Dance City, Camp Bestival and Stockton International Riverside Festival. He has been a Hawthornden Fellow and a Clarissa Luard Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust.

Harry has taught in schools, libraries, museums and community settings across the UK, and he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Oxford.
He lives in County Durham.