Peter Finch (poet)

Peter Finch is a Welsh author, historian and poet 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]

Peter Finch
Born	Peter Finch
Occupation	Poet, Author
Nationality	Welsh
Website
www.peterfinch.co.uk

Career

Between 1966 and 1975 Finch 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 interest 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 5 January 2017.
3. "Peter Finch | Seren Books". www.serenbooks.com. Retrieved 5 January 2017.