Sam Willetts

Sam Willetts (born 1962) is an English poet.{{cite web |title=World of Sam Willetts, poet |website=The Daily Telegraph |date=22 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203040810/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/8340315/World-of-Sam-Willetts-poet.html |archive-date=3 February 2023 |url-status=live |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/8340315/World-of-Sam-Willetts-poet.html}}{{cite web |title=Sam Willetts: A season in hell |date=4 October 2010 |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208155220/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/04/sam-willetts-interview |archive-date=8 December 2021 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/04/sam-willetts-interview}} He was born and raised in Oxford. His father Harry Willetts was a noted scholar and translator of Russian at St Antony's College, Oxford. Sam studied English at Wadham College. He has struggled with drug addiction and homelessness.[http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/8710625.Destruction_and_creation/ Oxford Times] His first book of poems New Light for the Old Dark (2010) was nominated for the Forward Prize for Poetry, the Costa Book Award for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Awards

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rowspan="3" \|2010 \| rowspan="3" \|New Light for the Old Dark \|Costa Book Awards \|Poetry \|{{Sho}} \|
Forward Prizes for Poetry \|First Collection \|{{Sho}} \|
T. S. Eliot Prize \|— \|{{Sho}} \|

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rowspan="3" |2010

| rowspan="3" |New Light for the Old Dark

|Costa Book Awards

|Poetry

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