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Peter Sansom was born in 1958 in Nottinghamshire. Carcanet published his first book in 1990, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Other titles include Selected Poems and Careful What You Wish For, which won him the Cholmondeley Award in 2016. He has been Fellow in Poetry at Leeds and Manchester Universities, and Company Poet for M&S and The Prudential. With Ann Sansom, Peter is a director of the Poetry Business in Sheffield and co-editor of The North magazine and Smith/Doorstop Books.