John Freeman’s poetry has been widely published in magazines and anthologies over several decades. His poem ‘Exhibition’ won the Bridport Prize in 2018. His most recent books are Strata Smith and the Anthropocene (Knives Forks and Spoons), and What Possessed Me (Worple), which won the Roland Mathias Award as Wales Poetry Book of the Year, 2017. Earlier collections include A Suite for Summer (Worple), and White Wings: New and Selected Prose Poems (Contraband).

John grew up in London and lived in Yorkshire before moving to Wales, where for many years he taught English Literature and Creative Writing at Cardiff University. He now lives near Cowbridge, in the Vale of Glamorgan.