Peter Finch

Peter Finch is a poet, performer, psychogeographer and literary entrepreneur living in Cardiff. He has been a publisher, bookseller, event organiser, literary agent and literary promoter. Until 2011 he was Chief Executive of Literature Wales. His writing career stretches over 50 years, from early poems in the sixties, through his magazine Second Aeon and its eponymous publisher, through sound, and visual and concrete poetry, via haiku and more conventional forms. He is also a prose writer....See more

Peter Finch is a poet, performer, psychogeographer and literary entrepreneur living in Cardiff. He has been a publisher, bookseller, event organiser, literary agent and literary promoter. Until 2011 he was Chief Executive of Literature Wales. His writing career stretches over 50 years, from early poems in the sixties, through his magazine Second Aeon and its eponymous publisher, through sound, and visual and concrete poetry, via haiku and more conventional forms. He is also a prose writer. Edging The Estuary, the story of where Wales becomes England, appeared in 2013. His musical memoir The Roots of Rock From Cardiff To Mississippi And Back was published in 2016. Edging the City, will be published in 2022. Finch has also edited the Real series of alternative handbooks, literary rambles and guides to Britain's conurbations. His own Real Cardiff (in four volumes) and Real Wales have appeared in this series. See less