Special performance for Salon by poet Anthony Anaxagorou

Listen to Anthony Anaxagorou performing his beautiful poem ‘Things Already Lost’ especially for the Salon at the recent Cheltenham Literature Festival. Anthony is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Granta, and more, and has appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts. This poem is from his second collection After the Formalities, published by Penned in the Margins in September 2019, which is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and has been shortlisted for the 2019 T.S Eliot Prize. Anthony was awarded the 2019 H-100 Award for writing and publishing, and the 2015 Groucho Maverick Award for his poetry and fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices