Peter Raynard is the editor of Proletarian Poetry: poems of working class lives (www.proletarianpoetry.com), featuring over 150 contemporary poets. He is an associate editor of Culture Matters and former member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. His two books of poetry are Precarious (Smokestack Books, 2018) and The Combination: a poetic coupling of the Communist Manifesto (Culture Matters, 2018). He has written two plays on the Arab Spring, which were performed in Brighton (2012) and London (2014). His poetry is widely published and he lives in St Albans. His third book Manland will be published by Nine Arches Press in 2022.
