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textsrecent publications
Poetry The Spe ell - Writers Forum, 1995 Other Works How To Publish Yourself - Allison & Busby, 1997 As Editor Small Presses & Little Magazine Of The UK & Ireland, An Address List - Oriel Bookshop, 1996
biographical note
Peter Finch is a poet, critic, author and literary entrepreneur living in Cardiff, Wales. He works in both traditional and experimental forms and is a performer on the reading circuit. In the sixties and seventies he edited the literary magazine, second aeon (check the history at www.peterfinch.co.uk/2ndaeon.htm), exhibited visual poetry internationally and toured with sound poet Bob Cobbing. In the eighties he concerned himself with performance poetry, was a founder member of Cardiff's Cabaret 246 and of the trio Horse's Mouth. Finch is author of a number of works on poetry and book publishing, compiles the poetry section of Macmillan's annual Writer's Handbook and the self-publishing section for A&C Black's Writers' & Artists' Yearbook. He was treasurer of ALP, the Association of Little Presses, from the
early seventies until the late nineties, ran the Arts Council of Wales's
specialist Oriel Bookshop in Cardiff between 1975 and 1998, and is now
Chief Executive of Yr Academi Gymreig, the Welsh National Literature Promotion
Agency and Society for Writers. He is currently working on historical, topographical and fictional material concerned with Cardiff. His Real Cardiff, an alternative guide book, history and literary ramble, was published by Seren just before Christmas, 2002. It immediately sold out and is now in a second edition. Finch is currently working the follow up - Real Cardiff Two - The Greater City as well as editing a new anthology of fiction and poetry from the city, The Book of Cardiff. His The Great Cardiff Poem project involving hundreds of writers across the city is currently being developed by Cardiff 2008, the City's bid to become European Capital of Culture. He is writing unconventional translations from the Welsh. A number of his conventional translations appear in the new anthology from Bloodaxe. poeticsAs you find. From the air as much as the mind. The edge is as important as the centre. contactPeter Finch, 19 Southminster Road, Roath, Cardiff CF23 5AT |
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