Alan Buckley is the author of two pamphlets (Shiver and The Long Haul), and the full collection Touched (HappenStance 2020); his second collection will be published by Blue Diode Press in 2025. His poems have been highly commended in the Forward and Bridport prizes. He was a founding editor of the award-winning pamphlet publisher ignitionpress, and has taught creative writing to young people with both First Story and Arvon. He lives in Oxford, where he also works as a psychotherapist.
