Benjamin J Larner is a London-based disabled poet of Iraqi-Chaldean, Irish, and Ashkenazi heritage. He was runner-up in the 2025 Spread the Word and CRIPtic Arts Disabled Poets Prize and the 2024 King’s College London and Mahler & LeWitt Ivan Juritz Prize; a finalist in the 2025 Texas Review Press Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize and the 2025 Fugue Journal Poetry Contest; and longlisted for the 2025 Bridport Prize, the 2024 and 2025 London Magazine Poetry Prize, the 2025 United Agents and Goldsmiths Pat Kavanagh Prize, the 2024 Oxford Poetry Prize and the 2023 Dreich Classics Chapbook Prize. Recent/upcoming publications include The Poetry Review, Magma, EpiphanyMagazine, Poetry London, the PROTOTYPE 7 anthology, GutterMagazine, The Aftershock Review, and the Propel Anthology 2025. His debut collection will be published in the UK by Akoya Publishing in 2027.
