My latest collection of poems is available from Longbarrow Press. Little Piece of Harm is a narrative sequence that focuses on 24 hours in the life of a city that has been shut down in the aftermath of a shooting. As this act of violence ramifies outwards, the sequence explores the geographical reach of Sheffield…
Posted on 28th March 2021 in PublicationsI thought I should flag up the latest pamphlet collection from Longbarrow Press featuring work by Peter Riley, one of Britain’s finest poets. It is – as Brian Lewis the founder of the publishing house says – ‘neither poems nor prose’, concise meditations on place and society. You can read ‘Wetton Will New Year’s Eve…
Posted on 2nd May 2012 in NewsYou can listen to readings of my poems here.
Posted on 15th April 2012 in ReadingsWorks by Chris Jones, alongside paintings by Paul Evans and poems by Matt Clegg have been placed in the new Cancer Genetics Building and Cancer Research Building in Cardiff. The commission – led by Paul Evans – has been created in close collaboration with researchers at the Cardiff University Medical School, technicians and practitioners in the…
Posted on 12th April 2012 in CommissionsTo celebrate the launch of my new site I’ve posted a poem here that will be included in Jigs and Rigs, a chapbook to be published by Shoestring Press later this year. The poem focuses on a reading I organised in the late 1990s, featuring the poet Ken Smith. The Reading When Ken arrives his foot’s…
Posted on 4th April 2012 in NewsI was commissioned by Arts in the Peaks, along with eleven other poets and six artists, to produce a poem-text for one of a set of twelve companion stones that would be placed beside a guide stoop (an early form of directional marking from the 18th Century) on the Peak District moors. Back in the…
Posted on 16th March 2012 in Commissions, Poetry