Richard Scott

He is a lecturer in creative writing on the MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths. As a creative writing tutor Richard has also worked in schools, for arts organisations – including The Southbank Centre and Arvon – at the University of Hertfordshire, Royal Holloway and at the Faber Academy.

His publications include Soho (Faber & Faber, 2018) which was a Gay’s the Word and a Poetry School book of the year and shortlisted for five poetry and publishing awards including the T. S. Eliot prize; and Wound (Rialto, 2016) which won the Michael Marks Poetry Award.

His poem ‘crocodile’ won the Poetry London Competition. Recent works include ‘Woman Peeling Turnips; A Portrait of my Father’, written in response to his residency at Southwark Park Galleries and broadcast on Resonance FM; and extracts from ‘That Broke Into Shining Crystals’ in Poetry Review. Richard’s poetry has been translated into German (Hochroth Verlag) and French (Place de la Sorbonne).