Ahren Warner

Ahren Warner is a British poet. He grew up in Lincolnshire before moving to London, then Paris. His first collection of poetry, Confer, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His second collection, Pretty was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
His most recent collections are Hello. Your promise has been extracted and The sea is spread and cleaved and furled, a book-length sequence of poems and moving-image work. These earned him an Arts Foundation Fellowship and selection for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020.
Warner's poems appear in several major anthologies, including London: A History in Verse and Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets. From 2013 to 2019, he was the Poetry Editor of Poetry London.
He has a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London, and is Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University School of Design and Creative Arts.