Poet in residence appointed for Rydal Mount
Kieron Winn
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.