Peter Finch

Poems come to me in batches, like buses.  You’d think that after all these years I would have learned how to turn the taps of creativity to...

We are beyond the cover design, the proofs, the index, the acknowledgements, the changes and the re-checks.  It's now down to arguing ab...

I’m outside the twin-domed front of the Gaiety cinema on City Road.  I’ve got a mackintosh  over my back like a western cape and a stick...

I’ve been looking for the traces great writers leave on a place and there aren’t many in Roath.  In my hand I’ve a copy of Dannie Abse’s  A...

Readings are a stock part of the poet’s trade.  They are today, in the literate twenty-first , although I’m sure some can remember ...

We were in a long room above a pub somewhere in Neath.  Nigel was teaching a creative writing class and I was the guest.  I was there...

Hemmingway knew how it went with new work.  You needed to keep your head down and do it.  In an interview with George Plimpton he told him ...

Sometimes people just vanish.  They are in focus for a time and then you stop looking.  When you look again they’re gone.  It happened to C...

The situationist Guy Debord defined psychogeography as  “the study of the precise laws and specific effects of the geographical environme...

Drinking a lot isn’t new. The world has always been filled with drunks.  But the idea has  got around that here in the burgeoning Welsh ca...