Louise Peterkin is a poet from Edinburgh. Her poetry has been widely published in many journals and anthologies. In 2016 she was a recipient of a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust in the poetry category. She is the co-editor along with Rob A. Mackenzie of Spark: Poetry and Art Inspired by the Novels of Muriel Spark (Blue Diode Press, 2018). She is an assistant editor for the long running independent poetry magazine The Interpreter’s House. She is a huge fan of cinema, particular horror and old Hollywood films and she works full time as a Library Assistant for the University of Edinburgh.

A lively, ambitious first collection with, already, a voice of its own and plenty to say.