Adam Crothers was born in Belfast in 1984, and lives in Cambridge. His first collection, Several Deer, won the 2017 Shine/Strong Poetry Award and the 2017 Seamus Heaney Centre Prize.Adam Crothers was born in Belfast in 1984, and lives in Cambridge. His first collection, Several Deer, won the 2017 Shine/Strong Poetry Award and the 2017 Seamus Heaney Centre Prize.