6 part series on the Bible. BBC Radio 4 commission – 'The Chair' – on Welsh poetry. BBC Radio 4 writer & presenter of 'The Cross' documentary. BBC Radio 2 writer of six part series 'Sacred Nation' – a history of multi-faith Britain, presented by Christopher Eccleston BBC Radio 3 writer and presenter of 'Elegy' – feature about the history and meaning of the poetic elegy. BBC Radio 3 writer and presenter of 'Utopian Pessimist' – feature about Simone Weil. References External links Michael Symmons Roberts author Web site Profile and poems written and audio at the Poetry Archive Poetry International Profile British Council – Contemporary Writers: Michael Symmons Roberts Wall Street Journal interview Griffin Poetry Prize biography CBC Radio's Tapestry interview with Michael Symmons Roberts New coup for Writing School – MMU news item 1963 births 21st-century British poets 21st-century English male writers Academics of Manchester Metropolitan University Alumni of Regent's Park College, Oxford Converts to Roman Catholicism from atheism or agnosticism Costa Book Award winners English Catholic poets English opera librettists Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature English Roman Catholics Living people Writers from Preston, Lancashire Roman Catholic writers English male poets English male dramatists and playwrights Fellows of the English Association