Sheffield Almanac
My 2017 pamphlet Sheffield Almanac is published by Longbarrow Press. It’s a poem in four chapters about rivers, rain, relocation and regeneration, exploring the industrial past and post-industrial future of my adopted home city.
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(See also: Model City, my essay for the Longbarrow blog about Sheffield’s civic identity and the implications of being a ‘city of making’)
Brotherton Poetry Prize Anthology
Eight of my poems feature in this collection of work by the five poets shortlisted for the 2019 Brotherton Poetry Prize, published in March 2020 by Carcanet.
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Pulp
My poem sequence Pulp is a reflection on disposability and renewal and a response to Sheffield’s recent programmes of tree felling and library closure. It was published in October 2019 in DW Cities: Sheffield, an anthology from Dostoyevsky Wannabe.
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Print journals
Several issues of Route 57 feature my work, the most recent being #15 (theme: ‘environs’/urban nature), which includes ‘The River Don Shipping Forecast’ and ‘Three Views of Chapman’s Pond’. The railway-themed #14 has a couple in as well. Both are stunningly designed.
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Under the Radar issue 22 includes two of my poems: ‘If Anything Happens to Me’ and ‘Love Song of Ingleton Road’.
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The Fenland Reed includes my poem ‘The Absences’ in issue 7 (autumn 2018).
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Issue 26 of Prole, published in summer 2018, includes my poem ‘Millennials’.
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I’m the Featured Poet in issue 66 of The Interpreter’s House. This means it includes three of my poems (‘Growing Seasons’, ‘Far North Line’ and ‘I am the king of Belgium‘) and they rather grandly call me Peter instead of plain old Pete.
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Online
You can find more of my poetry online in these publications:
Ink Sweat and Tears
Three tanka from Staithes
Caught by the River
Dan of the Don
The High Window
Issue 10
Prospects
Issue 5
Above the Party
Riggwelter
Issue 7
A Midweek Fixture
Issue 1
Mid-Afternoon
Three Drops From a Cauldron
The Night We Set The Clocks Back
Lady Jane Franklin on Out Stack
A Swift Exit
Diminished
(this also appears in the A Swift Exit anthology Absent Ginsberg)
Route 57
Issue 13
Night Walk by the River Don
The Astronomer’s Wife
Issue 12
Leaving Stromness
Staithes, April 2015