Will Eaves is a novelist and poet. Murmur won the 2019 Wellcome Prize and the Republic of Consciousness Prize for fiction. The Absent Therapist was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize; The Inevitable Gift Shop was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award. He has worked as Arts Editor at the TLS and Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. He is a columnist for the Brixton Review of Books and co-host with Professor Sophie Scott of The Neuromantics, a podcast on science and literature.
‘A wonderfully sensitive and probing meditation on the writing of words and music. This book moved and delighted me with its erudition, humour and compassion, and the urgency of its case made for the importance of creativity. A must-read for those interested in music, literature and the synthesis of art’ Rolf Hind, composer and pianist