Toby Martinez de las Rivas

Toby Martinez de las Rivas is a British poet.

Often compared to Geoffrey Hill, he has been described as a religious poet, although he is personally agnostic.

Career Martinez de las Rivas studied Archaeology and History at Durham University. Originally from Somerset, he now lives in Córdoba, Spain.

He was the Duke University Blackburn Artist in Residence for the 2023-24 academic year. De las Rivas' poetry garnered attention in 2018 following a controversial accusation by one author that de Las Rivas held fascist viewpoints, sparking a defense of de las Rivas by poet commentators, including that de las Rivas' work had been taken out of context. 2008: The Andrew Waterhouse Award for New Writing 2014: The Wiener Holocaust Library International Book Art Prize 2018: shortlisted for the Forward Prize

Selected publications