![]() ![]() But unlike you we had the means to ask him about it in advance. ![]() Like you we couldn’t wait for this, nor to hear Porter’s insight into Shy, and his evolving experience as a writer since his successful debut. To celebrate its launch, Porter is joining us here at the Southbank Centre on 2 April for a special reading event featuring Ruth Wilson, Tony Jones and David Alade voicing passages from the book. ![]() There has been no stopping Porter’s written output since, with Grief… followed by poetry, essays, lyrics, shorts stories, and further novels, the latest of which, Shy, is set to be published in April. Grief is the Thing with Feathers won the International Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Books Are My bag Readers’ Award for fiction, whilst also being shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, and a Goldsmiths Prize. And then in 2015 he published his first book, and, well, you can guess the rest. After that he became an editor, and a very good editor at that, working as Editorial Director at Granta and Portobello Books. Initially he was a bookseller, and a very good bookseller at that, managing the award-winning Chelsea branch of Daunt Books. ![]()
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