Peter Finch

Peter Finch (1947-) was born in Cardiff. He has published over twenty volumes of poetry and made his mark as an experimental poet whose literary allegiances are with the sound and concrete experimentalists of the US, UK and the rest of Europe. Even today, Finch is a unique figure in the literatures of Wales, experimenting with tape, cut text and the internet and engaging with performance. He has widened his canvas to include work in more traditional forms. He helped introduce new American and European poets to British readers in the seventies as editor of the ground breaking magazine, Second Aeon. After twenty years as a bookseller he is now the Chief Executive of Academi, the national promotion agency for literature in Wales.

Selected publications

poetry

Selected Poems (Seren, 1987)
Useful (Seren, 1997)
Antibodies (Stride, 1997)
Food (Seren, 2000)

non-fiction

How to Publish Your Poetry (Allison & Busby, 1985; 1998)
How to Publish Yourself (Allison & Busby, 1987; 1997)
The Poetry Business (Seren, 1994)
Real Cardiff (Seren, 2002)
Real Cardiff #2 (Seren, 2004)

Selected translations and foreign editions

Germany: Erkundungen: 28 walisische Erzähler (Volk und Welt, 1988)

USA: Re-imagining Wales (The Literary Review, Winter 2001)

Hungary: Vizet/Water (Konkrét Könyvek, 2003)