Two Spoons of Tepid Water

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Peter J Donnelly was born in Middlesbrough and grew up in North Yorkshire. He was educated in York before taking a degree in English Literature at the University of Wales Lampeter, followed by a MA in Creative Writing. His poetry has appeared in various magazines and anthologies including The Starbeck Orion, The Broken Spine, Dreich, High Wolds Poetry Festival, Obsessed with Pipework, Ripon Poetry Festival, Lothlorien, York Literary Review, Dust, Black Nore Review, High Window, Hornblower Press, Tap into Poetry and The Fig Tree.. He was a joint runner up in the Buzzwords open poetry competition in 2020 and won second prize in the Ripon Poetry Festival competition in 2021. He is the author of three books, The Second of August, Solving the Puzzle and Bloom and Grow, all published by Alien Buddha Press. Peter J Donnelly lives in York.