Peter Armstrong was born in 1957 at Blaydon-on-Tyne. His work has appeared in four main collections: Risings (Enitharmon Press, 1988), The Red-Funnelled Boat (Picador, 1998), The Capital of Nowhere (Picador, 2003) and The Book of Ogham (Shoestring Press, 2012), together with pamphlets Madame Noire (2008) and Two Ceremonies at the Border (2023), both from Shoestring. His work has been anthologised in volumes from 1980 to 2017 and appeared in hard copy and online magazines from 1979 to 2023. He worked full-time in the NHS as a mental health nurse and CBT specialist, contributing to research papers and text books. He was joint author, with Stephen Barton of CBT for Depression: an Integrated Approach (SAGE, 2019), and is co-editor with Jake Morris-Campbell of William Martin's Marratide: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2025). He lives in Northumberland.
