Luke Kennard is a Midlands-based poet, novelist and Professor of Creative Writing at Birmingham University. He was the youngest poet ever to be nominated for the Forward Poetry Prize and has several critically-acclaimed collections to his name. Luke is perhaps best known for his authoritative treatment of the prose poem as an experimental form; his work is infused with surreal and absurdist imagery which is at once self-ironising but also achieves a sense of the numinous.