Raymond Antrobus is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Signs/Music (Tin House), of which the title poem was published in The New Yorker. His work has won numerous prizes in the UK, where his poems have been added to school examination syllabi. He is also the author of a children’s book, Can Bears Ski?, which became the first story broadcast on the BBC entirely in British Sign Language. Raymond was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and appointed an MBE.