Jonty Claypole

Jonty Claypole is CEO of Red Room Poetry and co-host of the Secret Life of Books. He was formerly Director of Arts at the BBC and ran many literature programs and campaigns, sat on the advisory board of the Booker Prize and was regularly in The Bookseller's '100 Most Influential People in Publishing'. He is the author of Words Fail Us: In Defence of Dysfluency.