Chris Preddle Author

Chris Preddle has retired from library work, in public libraries and with two childcare charities. He lived for many years in the village of Holme in West Yorkshire, on a windy shoulder of the Pennines. His second collection was Cattle Console Him (2010). He won the first PN Review Prize in 2017, has been shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize (2012), was second in the Strokestown competition (2012), and won the Scintilla competition for shorter poems (2007). His work has appeared in many magazines in Britain and Ireland.