Sam Riviere (born 1981) is an English poet and publisher.

Education and career

Riviere was educated at

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and completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the

University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia (UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England. Established in 1963 on a campus west of the city centre, the university has four faculties and 26 schools of study. The annual income of the institution f ...

in 2013. While at art school, Riviere played drums in

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band Le Tetsuo. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2009, and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2012 for ''81 Austerities''. Since 2015 he has run the independent press If a Leaf Falls Press in Edinburgh, which "publishes limited-edition pamphlets, typically of appropriated or procedural writing". In 2021, Riviere published his first novel, ''Dead Souls.''

Awards

*2009 Eric Gregory Award *2012 Forward Prize for Best First Collection

Bibliography

Poetry

*''Faber New Poets 7'' (Faber & Faber, 2010) * ''81 Austerities'' (Faber & Faber, 2012) * ''Standard Twin Fantasy'' (Egg Box Publishing, 2014) * ''Kim Kardashian's Marriage'' (Faber & Faber, 2015) * ''Cont.'' (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2015) * ''The Truth About Cats & Dogs'' with Joe Dunthorne (Visual Editions, 2016) * ''Preferences'' (If a Leaf Falls Press, 2016) * ''True Colours'' (After Hours, 2016) * ''Safe Mode'' (Test Centre, 2017) * ''Darken PDF'' (Spam Press, 2018) * ''Old Poem'' (A6 Books, 2019) * ''Pink Dogs'' (AFV Press, 2020) * ''After Fame'' (Faber & Faber, 2020)

Fiction

* ''Dead Souls'' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021)

References

1981 births Living people Alumni of Norwich University of the Arts Alumni of the University of East Anglia Academics of the University of East Anglia British poets British male poets {{UK-poet-stub