Harry Man is a poet, translator and visual artist.

‘Lift’, his first pamphlet, won the UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award
 and he was a Northern Writers’ Awards co-winner with Suzannah Evans.

Harry Man won the Stephen Spender Prize
and has been a Clarissa Luard Wordsworth Trust Poet in Residence,
a TOAST poet, a Das Haus and a Hawthornden Fellow.

He is the technologist, writer and frequently a performer in
children’s theatre company Fully Booked Theatre with
Canadian contemporary dance choreographer Jennifer Essex.

He has been shortlisted for Tees Valley Artist of the Year 2024
and his work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, BBC Tees and at festivals
internationally including Poetry International, Rotterdam, T-Junction,
Winchester Poetry Festival and Stockton International Riverside Festival.

In 2018 his work was selected for Poem of North by the Northern Poetry Library.

He is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University.

His pamphlet Utøya Thereafter (‘Thereafter’) co-written with Endre Ruset
was a Broken Sleep Books Book of the Year 2023.

His first collection Popular Song is available from Nine Arches Press

Noriaki, a collection of poems about Olympic ski jump champion
Noriaki Kasai, written by Endre Ruset and translated by Harry Man
is available from Broken Sleep Books.

He lives in Teesside, County Durham.