In this collection, Peter Daniels looks at his life as an older gay man, his London neighbourhood, his furniture, other people’s gardens and London’s creatures. His distinctive voice ranges through tight rhyming to looser meditations and prose poems, always skilfully crafted as words to make some sense of the world.
Peter Daniels is the author of four poetry collections and several pamphlets, including two Poetry Business prizewinners. He has won poem competitions including the Arvon, TLS and Ledbury, and his translations of Vladislav Khodasevich from Russian (Angel Classics, 2013) were shortlisted for three awards including the Oxford-Weidenfeld prize. He has a Creative Writing PhD from Goldsmiths, London. As queer writer in residence at the London Metropolitan