Toby Martinez de las Rivas

Toby Martinez de las Rivas’ publications include three full collections from Faber & Faber. Black Sun (2018) was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection. Terror (2014) was shortlisted for The Portico prize and Michael Marks award. His most recent book is Floodmeadow (2023). His work is included in Penguin Modern Poets 7 (Penguin, 2018) with Geoffrey Hill and Rowan Evans. He has selections in generational anthologies by Bloodaxe and Carcanet, and poems in key UK and US journals including Poetry, The Paris Review, Poetry Review and Poetry London. In 2014 he won the Wiener Holocaust Library International Book Art prize for a collaborative book commemorating the victims of the Holocaust which was also shortlisted for the MCBA prize, and exhibited at The Wiener Library, London. He has taught at Newcastle University and Duke University in North Carolina, and held writing residencies at The Museum of English Rural Life; The Hunter Writers Centre in Newcastle, Australia; and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His most recent work engages with film and sound art and has been or is scheduled to be exhibited in Cambridge and The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading.