Victor Tapner is an award-winning poet whose cast of characters ranges from prehistoric tribal villagers in Flatlands, shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize, to sufferers of urban conflict and artists and scientists spanning the Renaissance to the nuclear age. His poems have been shortlisted three times in the Keats-Shelley awards, and he is a recipient of the Munster Literature Centre's international chapbook prize. A freelance writer and former Financial Times journalist, he lives in Essex.
