Simon Rae is a British

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, broadcaster, biographer and playwright who runs the Top Edge Productions theatre company. He won the

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's National Poetry Competition in 1999 and has also been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and a Southern Arts Literature Bursary and held Royal Literary Fund fellowships at Oxford Brookes and Warwick Universities. His play ''Grass'' won a Fringe Highlight award in 2002. Rae presented Radio 4's ''Poetry Please'' for five years and wrote a regular topical poem for the ''Saturday Guardian'' for ten years. His most recent book of poems was ''Gift Horses, ''published in 2006 by Enitharmon Press. He has written a biography of the

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er WG Grace: ''W.G.Grace: A Life'' (Faber, 1998).

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