Peter Finch (poet)

Peter Finch
Born Peter Finch
6 March 1947
Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales
Occupation Poet, Author
Nationality Welsh
Website
www.peterfinch.co.uk

Peter Finch (born 1947) is a Welsh poet and author living in Cardiff, Wales. Until 2012 he was Chief Executive first of Academi.,[1] the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society of Writers and then its successor body, Literature Wales. As a writer, he works in both traditional and experimental forms. He is known for his poetry readings, his creative work based on his native city of Cardiff, his talks on the history of rock music and his psychogeographic cycle and walking tours around the capital of Wales.[2]

Career

Peter Finch was born in 1947, in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales.

Between 1966 and 1975 he edited the literary magazine Second Aeon.

During the 1960s and 1970s he was treasurer of the Association of Little Presses (ALP), exhibited visual poetry internationally and toured with sound poet Bob Cobbing.

Between 1975 and 1998 he ran the Arts Council of Wales's specialist Oriel Bookshop in Cardiff.

In the 1980s and 1990s he concerned himself with performance poetry, was a founder member of Cardiff's Cabaret 246 and of the trio Horse's Mouth. This was work with props, owing as much to theatre as it did to literature.

In the new Millennium he was worked on psychogeographies and alternative guides to his native city of Cardiff.[3]

In 2016 he returned to an earlier obsession and wrote The Roots Of Rock, a book about popular music.

In recent years Finch has continued to give poetry readings as well as illustrated talks on the city of Cardiff, the Severn Estuary and on the history of Rock music.

Bibliography

N° Name Published Publisher Notes
1 Wanted For Writing Poetry 1968 Second Aeon with Stephen Morris
2 An Alteration in the Way I Breathe 1969 Quickest Way Out
3 Pieces of the Universe 1969 Second Aeon
4 Beyond The Silence 1970 Vertigo
5 Circle of the Suns 1970 Art Living
6 The Edge of Tomorrow 1971 BB Books with Jeanne Rushton
7 The End of the Vision 1971 John Jones Ltd
8 Blats 1972 Second Aeon
9 Typewriter Poems 1972 Something Else Press editor
10 Whitesung 1972 Aquila
11 Antarktika 1973 Writers Forum
12 Getting Your Poetry Published 1973 Association of Little Presses
13 Trowch Eich Radio 'Mlaen 1977 Writers Forum
14 Green Horse 1978 Christopher Davies co-edited with Meic Stephens
15 How to Learn Welsh 1978 Christopher Davies editor
16 Connecting Tubes 1980 Writers Forum
17 Blues and Heartbreakers 1981 Galloping Dogs
18 The O Poems 1981 Writers Forum
19 Visual Texts 1970–1980 1981 Pyrofiche microfiche edition
20 Between 35 and 42 1982 Alun Books
21 On Criticism 1984 Writers Forum
22 Some Music and a Little War 1984 Rivelin Grapheme
23 How to Publish Your Poetry 1985 Allison & Busby re-issued 1998
24 Reds in the Bed 1985 Galloping Dog
25 How To Publish Yourself 1987 Allison & Busby re-issued 1997
26 Selected Poems 1987 Poetry Wales Press
27 Cheng Man Ch'ing Variations 1990 Writers Forum
28 Make 1990 Galloping Dog
29 Publishing Yourself, Not Too Difficult After All 1990 Association of Little Presses
30 Poems for Ghosts 1991 Seren
31 Five Hundred Cobbings 1994 Writers Forum
32 The Poetry Business 1994 Seren
33 The Spe ell 1995 Writers Forum
34 Small Presses & Little Magazines of the UK and Ireland, An Address List 1996 Oriel Bookshop compiler
35 Antibodies 1997 Stride
36 Dauber 1997 Writers Forum
37 Useful 1997 Seren
38 Food 2001 Seren
39 Real Cardiff 2002 Seren
40 Vizet – Water 2003 Konkret Konyvek
41 Real Cardiff 2 2004 Seren
42 The Big Book Of Cardiff 2005 Seren co-edited with Grahame Davies
43 Welsh Poems 2006 Shearsman
44 Selected Later Poems' 2007 Seren
45 Real Wales 2008 Seren
46 Real Cardiff 3 2009 Seren
47 Edging The Estuary 2013 Seren
48 The Roots Of Rock From Cardiff To Mississippi And Back 2016 Seren

References

  1. ↑ "Peter Finch Biography". Retrieved 19 August 2009.
  2. ↑ "Peter Finch - Literature". literature.britishcouncil.org. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  3. ↑ "Peter Finch | Seren Books". www.serenbooks.com. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
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