Roy McFarlane

Roy McFarlane is a poet and playwright born in Birmingham of Jamaican parentage. He is the National Canal Laureate and a former Birmingham Poet Laureate. His debut collection, Beginning With Your Last Breath, was followed by The Healing Next Time which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. His third collection Living by Troubled Waters was published in 2022.