Peter Branson's Poetry Site

Peter Branson lives in Rode Heath, a village in South Cheshire. A former English teacher and lecturer, he now organises writing workshops. Until recently he was “Writer-in-residence” for the “All Write” project run by Stoke-on-Trent Central Libraries.

 

Over the last five years he has had work published, or accepted for publication, by many mainstream poetry journals in Britain, USA, Canada, EIRE, Australia and New Zealand, including Acumen, Ambit, Envoi, Magma, The London Magazine, Iota, 14, Fire, The Frogmore Papers, The Interpreter’s House, Poetry Nottingham, Pulsar, Red Ink, The Recusant, South, Writing Magazine, The New Writer, Crannog, The Raintown Review, The Able Muse and Other Poetry.  

 

His first collection, “The Accidental Tourist”, was published in May 2008. A second collection was published at the beginning of this year by Caparison Press for ‘The Recusant’. A third collection has been accepted for publication by Salmon Press, EIRE.

 

He is available for poetry readings and to lead creative writing workshops in Staffordshire, Shropshire, Derbyshire and Cheshire.

                                   

Red Shift

 

By Peter Branson

 

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“The poetry of Peter Branson is an accomplished combination of tone, style and subject one might not normally presume to go together: economy and flourish, restraint and passion, private-mindedness and social conscience. Branson manages to blend these variants into a handsome harmony, making for poetry both emotionally and intellectually affecting. In his clipped aphorismic sentences, still sensitive to the musicality in language, Branson has perhaps most in common with the Movement Poets, particularly Robert Conquest and Philip Larkin; while an after-rub of Martin Bell’s laconic urban lyricism ...is also pleasingly detectable. ... These poems ruminate on the many-coloured conflicts of today: from the clashes of the banking crisis to the scrub of Afghanistan.”

 

Alan Morrison

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