Cities Within Us

Peter Taylor has published six books and chapbooks and his poems have appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, Descant, The Ekphrastic Review, Grain, Into the Void and The Toronto Quarterly. His writing has been published in Australia, the Caribbean, India, Ireland, the Netherlands, Romania, Singapore, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States. His first collection, Trainer, a mosaic of poems capturing his father’s experience as a pilot during the Second World War, with an introductory poem by Raymond Souster, was called “a work of scholarship and imagination” by John Robert Colombo (The Globe and Mail). His experimental verse play, Antietam, won honourable mention in the international War Poetry Contest in Northampton, Massachusetts. He holds a master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Waterloo and has worked as a printer and bookbinder, medical publisher, institute director and non-profit executive. Born in Edmonton, he lives in Aurora, Ontario.