Peter Riley Author & Editor

Peter Riley was born in Stockport in 1940 and recently moved to Hebden Bridge after 28 years in Cambridge. He is the author of 17 books of poetry 1967-2015, which have been gathered into a two-volume Collected Poems published by Shearsman Books in 2018. His long poem Due North was shortlisted for the Forward best collection prize in 2016. Dawn Songs, three essays on music, was published by Shearsman Books in 2017, and Longbarrow Press has since published Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls.