Peter Finch

Peter Finch is a poet and short story writer currently 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 ground-breaking literary magazine, second aeon, exhibited visual poetry internationally and toured with sound poet Bob Cobbing. Today he is much in demand as a reader as well as a lecturer at festivals and venues up and down the country. 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' and Artists' Yearbook. He is a regular book reviewer and contributes monthly

pieces on writing, books and the poetry scene to a number of periodicals. His poetry is widely published in magazines and anthologies. Some poetry he wrote during the 1970s includes "Cycle Of the Suns Art Living" (1970), "Beyond The Silence Vertigo" (1970), "An Alteration In The Way I Breathe QWO" (1970), "The Edge Of Tomorrow BB Books" (1971), "The End Of The Vision John Jones Ltd" (1971), "Whitesung Aquila" (1972), "Antarktika Writers Forum" (1972), and "Trowch Eich Radio 'mlaen Writers Forum" (1977).

Read Clatter, a poem by Peter Finch.