Peter Finch

Peter Finch is a poet, critic, author and literary entrepreneur living in Cardiff, Wales. He's best know for his series of psychogeographies, alternative guide books and histories of his native city, Real Cardiff. His poetry is extensive, biting, witty and edge pushing. It is collected in his Seren published Selected Later Poems along with his mammoth 2022 two-volume Collected Poems from the same publisher. His most recent collection is Machineries of Joy. Watch for Edging The City, his book about a 60 mile trek around the boundary of Cardiff and walking The Valleys (with photographer John Briggs).

"Since the early 1970s, Finch has been the principal innovator in Welsh poetry.....he deserves a Welsh knighthood." - Richard Kostelanetz, Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes

" Just this side of chaos" - Jon Gower

"almost a wave by himself...." -. Victor Golightly, NWR

and on Real Cardiff:

"This is a marvellous book - one of the very best books about a city I have ever read. It makes me feel terribly old-fashioned - superficial too, because I have never actually lived in the cities I have written about. I skip most of the poems, which I don't understand, but everything else in it is gripping me so fast that I have momentarily suspended my first ever reading of Wuthering Heights." - Jan Morris, writing to the author.