Collection: Chris Preddle

Chris Preddle is a retired librarian and lives in Holme in West Yorkshire, on a windy shoulder of the Pennines. A sequence of 32 Variations on 'Sappho 95' appeared in Stand. His work has also appeared in PN Review, Poetry Review, The Rialto, The Shop, Smiths Knoll, Envoi, Orbis and other magazines. He won the first prize for short poems in the Poetry on the Lake Competition 2008 and in the Scintilla Competition 2007. He was a finalist for the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize in 2007, 2006 and 2005. He won the Biscuit Poetry Prize in 2001 and published a short collection, Bonobos (2002; ISBN 978-1-903914-04-5). Cattle Console Him is his full-length collection.