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Peter J. King

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I was born and brought up in Boston, Lincolnshire. Moving to London when I was eighteen, I discovered the Poetry Society in 1975, and started getting involved, helping out in the print room and the shop, and with odd jobs . I started tapocketa press, initially self-publishing, but then going on to publish work by other poets, including Jeremy Adler, Paul Buck, Bob Cobbing, Cris Cheek, Lawrence Upton, Bill Griffiths, Herbert Burke, and many others. With Alaric Sumner I started publishing "words worth" magazine, and Alaric and I also performed together; I was a regular at the Troubadour, round the corner from the Poetry Society , and aside from readings in London and beyond I was involved in the Poetry in Schools scheme.

I stopped writing at the end of the 1970s, and after a shortish break I became interested in philosophy, doing a B.A. at Middlesex Plytechnic, then going on to Brasenose College, Oxford for my B.Phil. and D.Phil. I've been teaching philosophy since, and have been a lecturer at Pembroke College since 2003. Aside from papers in academic journals, I've published "One Hundred Philosophers" , and I'm the co-author of "The Philosophy Book".

I had a brief return to writing and publishing poetry in the 1980s, and started working on translations of modern Greek poetry with my partner, the philosopher Andrea Christofidou. There was a long gap, finally broken in 2013 when I became involved in Lucy Newlyn's workshops and forum at St Edmund Hall.

Since then I've been published in magazines such as Acumen. Tears in the Fence, Three Drops in the Cauldron, Dream Catcher, Molly Bloom, Ink, Sweat, & Tears, streetcake, Lighthouse, eyot, Raum, Bare Fiction, The Interpreter's House, and New Walk. I've continued translating poetry from modern Greek, and have started working on translations from German. My latest collection, "All What Larkin is a set of jazz cut-ups from the critical writings of Philip Larkin, some of which I've had the pleasure of performing a number of times with jazz violinist Chris Garrick and keyboard player Dave Gordon.

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Peter J. King

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Books from Peter J. King

The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

One Hundred Philosophers: The Life and Work of the World's Greatest Thinkers

Eccentric Orbits: An Anthology Of Science Fiction Poetry (Volume 2)

Adding Colours to the Chameleon

Ballads & Divers Verses

insofaras

A Secret Tear

Performance Poets at Battersea

CTA-21 to CTA-102

All What Larkin

The Philosophy Book