About Tom Chivers
‘Dark London history, dredged and interrogated, spits and fizzes with corrosive wit. Language-receipts sustain the necessary illusion. IT MATTERS. It matters: the weight and pace of delivery, the balance of breath. Tom Chivers understands the risks he risks, the play in a taught rope.’
Iain Sinclair on The Terrors‘Tom Chivers has created a rich and challenging collection that reflects all that is beautiful and disturbing in the city. These poems speak civic rhythms; they mimic the sway and staccato motion of the city… This is an ambitious and brave collection from a poet with a distinctive voice.’
Anthony Joseph on How To Build A City
Tom Chivers is a writer, editor and promoter. Born 1983 in South London, he currently lives in the East End where he runs Penned in the Margins and London Word Festival. In Spring 2008 he was the first ever Poet in Residence at The Bishopsgate Institute. Tom has appeared on BBC Radio 3 and 4, BBC London and Resonance FM. His poetry, reviews and critical writing have been published widely in magazines and anthologies. His books include How To Build A City (Salt Publishing, 2009), The Terrors (Nine Arches Press, 2009) and, as editor, Generation Txt (Penned in the Margins, 2006) and City State: New London Poetry (Penned in the Margins, 2009). He is Associate Editor of international literary journal Tears in the Fence. In September 2009 BBC Radio 4 broadcast his documentary about the poet Barry MacSweeney.
