Peter Daniels is the author of four poetry collections and several pamphlets, including two Poetry Business prizewinners. He has won poem competitions including the Arvon, TLS and Ledbury, and his translations of Vladislav Khodasevich from Russian (Angel Classics, 2013) were shortlisted for three awards including the Oxford-Weidenfeld prize. He has a Creative Writing PhD from Goldsmiths, London. As queer writer in residence at the London Metropolitan Archives he wrote the obscene Ballad of Captain Rigby.
