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Tom Chivers


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Tom Chivers is a writer, publisher and arts producer. He was born in 1983 in south London.

He has released two pamphlets of poetry, The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009; shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award) and Flood Drain (Annexe Press, 2012), and two full collections, How To Build A City (Salt Publishing, 2009) and Dark Islands (Test Centre, 2015). His poems have been anthologised in Dear World & Everything In It (Bloodaxe Books, 2013) and London: A History in Verse (Harvard University Press, 2012).

His non-fiction debut London Clay: Journeys in the Deep City will be published by Transworld/Doubleday in September 2021. He is represented by Sophie Scar
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London Clay: Journeys into ...

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The Reward of Loyalty (Warh...

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Marginalia: Ten Years of Po...

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How To Build A City

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The Terrors

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Dark Islands

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City State: New London Poetry

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“your response to new information is influenced by the beliefs you already hold.”
Tom Chivers, Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

“probabilities are beliefs; our beliefs, if we act on them, are themselves a kind of bet.”
Tom Chivers

“Life isn’t chess, a game of perfect information, one that can in theory be “solved.” It’s poker, a game where you’re trying to make the best decisions using the limited information you have.”
Tom Chivers, Everything Is Predictable: How Bayesian Statistics Explain Our World

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