Literary Business

Peter Finch is a poet, writer, performer, walker and literary entrepreneur living in Cardiff. He was at the forefront of the UK's small press revolution in the 60s and the 70s with his magazine Second Aeon and pioneered performance poetry in Wales during the 1980s. From 1974 to 1995 he ran the Oriel Bookshop in Cardiff. From 1996 to 2011 he was Chief Executive of Yr Academi Gymreig / The Welsh Academy, an organisation which was later rebranded as Literature Wales. His published works are extensive. Everything To Play For - The Poetry of Peter Finch, a critical study of his work by Andrew Taylor appeared in 2025.

"Finch is so good because of his constant need to create and recreate, and his refusal to accept barriers" - Ian Macmillan"intelligent, irreverent and often genuinely funny" - Vernon Scannell, Ambit"Finch deserves a Welsh knighthood" - Richard Kostelanetz"I thoroughly enjoyed this book from start to finish... Finch deploys the right amount of irreverence and respect to tell his stories" - Desmond Clifford, Nation.Cymru