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The Royal Festival Hall is closed to the public on Tuesday 16 June. It will reopen for Harry Styles & Jules Buckley Orchestra ticket holders only at 5pm.

Poet Oliver Fox stands in front of a red brick wall facing the camera. He is a white man with dark hair and a beard, wearing a green knitted jumper.

Oliver Fox

Oliver Fox is a writer and arts administrator from London. He previously ran The Poetry Society’s National Poetry Competition and the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, and produced podcasts, including a series on the UK and USA spoken-word scenes. He was a prizewinner in the 2018 Verve Poetry Competition, and his work has been featured in PERVERSE, Ambit, Strāva, and Broken Sleep Books’ Hit Points anthology.

In 2019 he was commissioned as part of Eleanor Penny’s podcast series Bedtime Stories for the End of the World. His debut pamphlet, Haptics (Broken Sleep Books, 2023), explores the ways technology shapes and captures the most vulnerable moments of our lives.