Paul Chambers

Paul Chambers is an award-winning poet and a PhD candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Bristol. His creative practice centres on haiku poetry and his research focuses on poetic negative space as a vehicle for contemplative ecology. He also holds an MA in Screenwriting from the London Film School.

Paul has contributed creative and critical material to the Times Literary Supplement, the Washington Post, the BBC, NHK World, Wales Arts Review, and the national Japanese newspapers, the Mainichi and the Asahi Shimbun. He is also a regular Arts critic for BBC Radio Wales.

Paul's individual poems have won the Museum of Haiku Literature Award, the NHK Haiku Masters Award, and the Golden Triangle Haiku Award. His 2021 collection, The Dry Bones won the Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Distinguished Book Award – the most prestigious prize in the field of English-language haiku.