Divided Tongues

Patrick Davidson Roberts was born in 1987 and grew up in Sunderland and Durham. He was editor of The Next Review magazine 2013-2017, co-founded Offord Road Books press in 2017 and reviews for The Poetry School and The High Window. His debut collection is The Mains (Vanguard Editions, 2018), and a chapbook, The Trick (Broken Sleep Books, 2023), was recently published. His poetry has elsewhere been published in 14 Magazine, Acumen, Ambit, The Dark Horse, Eyot, The Interpreter's House, Long Poem Magazine, Magma, The Quince, The Rialto, and on Atrium, Bad Lilies, The High Window, One Hand Clapping and Wild Court, as well as in anthologies published by Culture Matters, New River Press, Sidekick Books and Vanguard Editions.