The first person to be appointed poet in residence at Rydal Mount will take up his place next month.
Kieron Winn will spend a week at the home of William Wordsworth, writing and meeting visitors to the house.
Kieron’s first collection of poems, The Mortal Man, was published in 2015.
He has twice won the University of Oxford’s most valuable literary award, the English Poem on a Sacred Subject Prize.
Kieron studied English at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was awarded a doctorate for a thesis on Herbert Read and TS Eliot.
He lives on Osney Island in Oxford, and, as of April this year, in Penrith.
He is a freelance teacher of creative writing and English literature, including to visiting students from the Stanford University programme in Oxford and from Lady Margaret Hall, where he has been poet in residence. He sometimes visits schools to talk to pupils about form and structure in poetry.
His poems have appeared in British and American magazines, including The London Magazine, New Statesman, Oxford Magazine, The Spectator and The Times Literary Supplement.
Selections of his poems also appear in anthologies and he has read his poems on BBC TV and radio.
The appointment was due to happen last year to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wordsworth, but was postponed because of the pandemic.
Kieron is the first in a series of visiting poets.
Curator of Rydal Mount, Emily Heath, said: “We are very excited about this and looking forward to reading what Kieron produces in the wonderful atmosphere of Rydal Mount.”
