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Nick Drake (born 1961) is a British poet, playwright, screenwriter, librettist, and novelist.
Nick Drake is a prize-winning poet, screenwriter, playwright and librettist. His family on his father’s side were from Prague, his mother’s from Northampton.
It’s a story of radical bravery… The Guardian. One Life. Nick has co-written (with Lucinda Coxon) the feature film One Life, starring Anthony Hopkins, Johnny Flynn, Helena Bonham Carter, Romola Garai, Jonathan Pryce, Lena Olin and Samantha Spiro. The screenplay is based on the book If It’s Not Impossible…
Jun 19, 2023 · Nick Drake: poete maudlin of the ‘70s bedsitter folk-rock set, destined to become the posthumous subject of a thousand magazine retrospectives, eternally cast and recast as a damned-romantic...
- Richard Morton Jack
Nick Drake, born near London in 1961, has published several volumes of poetry including The Man in the White Suit, winner of Forward Prize for best first collection) and From The Word Go. He wrote the screenplay for Romulus my Father starring Eric Bana, which won Best Film at the Australian Film awards.
Nick’s poems have been published in The Guardian, Poetry Chicago and many anthologies. He has twice won prizes in the Arvon poetry competition, and ‘The Foley Artist’ won second prize in the Cardiff International Poetry Competition.
Nick Drake was born in 1961. He lives and works in London. His first book-length collection, The Man in the White Suit (Bloodaxe Books, 1999), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 1999, and was selected for the Next Generation Poets promotion in 2004.
