Will Burns

Will Burns was born in London and lives in Buckinghamshire. He is Poet-In-Residence at Caught By The River. He was named as one of the 4 Faber & Faber New Poets for 2014 with his debut pamphlet; in 2019 he released Chalk Hill Blue, a collaborative album made with the composer Hannah Peel, which set his poems to her music. Will’s first full poetry collection, Country Music, was published with Offord Road Books in 2020, and his debut novel, The Paper Lantern, was published in July 2021 with Weidenfeld & Nicholson, for which he was named as one of the Observer’s Top 10 Debut Novelists of 2021.