John Freeman is a prize-winning poet and critic whose work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies and twelve collections, of which the most recent is Plato’s Peach (Worple Press). What Possessed Me (Worple Press) won the Roland Mathias prize in 2017. Other titles include Strata Smith and the Anthropocene (KFS) and, with the photographer Chris Humphrey, Visions of Llandaff (The Lonely Press). He won the Bridport prize in 2018. He grew up in south London and lived in Yorkshire before settling in Wales, where he taught for many years at Cardiff University. He now lives in the Vale of Glamorgan.
