Zaffar Kunial - Zaffar Kunial

Funded
by Arts Council England, Faber New Poets aims to identify and support
emerging talents at an early stage in their careers. Through a programme
of mentorship, bursary and pamphlet publication, the scheme offers four
poets a year the time, guidance and encouragement they require to help
in the development of their work in the longer term.

Zaffar
Kunial was born in Birmingham and currently lives in Cumbria where he
has just become the 2014 Wordsworth Trust Poet-in-Residence. His poem Hill Speak
was placed third in the 2011 National Poetry Competition. In 2012 he
won a Northern Writers' Award of 5000. A graduate of the LSE, for the
last five years Zaffar has worked as a full-time 'Creative Writer' for
Hallmark cards in West Yorkshire. Hill Speak is his only published poem.