List Of Writers

FINCH, PETER

19 Southminster Road, Cardiff, CF2 5AT
(029) 2049 3093 (eve); (029) 2047 2266 (day);
Email: peter@peterfinch.co.uk
Website: http://www.peterfinch.co.uk/

Poet, critic, topographer, short–story writer, experimenter and literary performer. Born in Cardiff where he still lives. Editor of the journal Second Aeon from 1966 to 1974. Managed the Oriel Bookshop from 1974 until 1998. Now Chief Executive of the relaunched Academi (Yr Academi Gymreig/The Welsh Academy). He is well known and respected on the reading circuit as an entertaining performer. He has published more than 20 collections of poetry, a book of short stories, edited with Meic Stephens Green Horse (Christopher Davies, 1978), an anthology of younger poets from Wales, and edited with Grahame Davies The Big Book of Cardiff (Seren, 2005), a collection of fiction and poetry from our capital city, and has published a number of guide books for new writers including the best selling How to Publish Your Poetry (Allison & Busby, 1985) which is now in its third edition. He is the author of the self–publishing section of A&C Black’s Artists and Writers’ Yearbook and until recently the poetry section of Macmillan’s Writer’s Handbook. He was the first author in Wales to establish his own website (http://www.peterfinch.co.uk/). His Real Cardiff (Seren 2002; 2004) books are entertaining offbeat histories, guides and literary rambles across Wales’ capital city.

Peter’s interview with The Argotist Online is now online at: http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Finch%20interview.htm

Selected Publications:
Between 35 and 42 (Alun Books, 1982)
How to Publish Your Poetry (Allison & Busby, 1985)
Selected Poems (Poetry Wales Press)
Make (Galloping Dog Press, 1990)
The Poetry Business (Seren, 1994)
Poems for Ghosts (Seren, 1995)
Useful (Seren, 1997)
Antibodies (Stride, 1997)
Food (Seren, 2001)
Real Cardiff (Seren, 2002)
Real Cardiff Two (Seren, 2004) 
The Welsh Poems (Shearsman, 2006)
Selected Later Poems (Seren, 2007)
Real Wales (Seren, 2008)

Contributed to:
Green Horse (co-editor) (Christopher Davies, 1978)
The Big Book of Cardiff (co-editor) (Seren, 2005)



Eligible Writers on Tour subjects offered:
1. Read and discuss own work; emphasis on professional performance
2. How to publish your work (poetry, prose); self-publishing
3. History of sound, found and experimental poetry (with recorded illustration)
4. How to write the short story
5. The Little Magazine
6. Workshops
7. Writing for the Internet - how to set up a home page, contributing to on-line magazines, the challenges posed to writers by the new media, hyper-text composition, & where next?
8. Writing the city

AGE RANGE: all ages. Workshops and performances for schools and writers’ groups are a strength