Chris Campbell's full-length poetry collection explores fatherhood and a male perspective of family life. The 48 poems cover universal themes including life's stages and struggles, with remorse and self-questioning, all while appreciating its joys. It is a book that touches on the past, its effect on the present, and the contrast between the idealised and reality of life as a dad with two young children alongside marriage, work, illness, and urban life.
Written in Bristol, UK, the collection highlights the city's nature, current and historic family relationships, and the effect of an ear infection that led to a brain haemorrhage. It tackles the journey of recovery, identifying dark and light moments and an appreciation for the everyday.
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Chris Campbell is a Bristol-based Editor. His second collection, 'Why I Wear My Past to Work', is published by Parlyaree Press. His mini pamphlet will be out with Atomic Bohemian in 2026. His poems appear in publications including Magma, Prole, The Waxed Lemon, Sídhe Press and Black Bough Poetry. Chris was Highly Commended in the 2024 Cobh International Poetry Competition and shortlisted for Canterbury Poet of the Year 2023. He won Third Prize in the 2022 Shelley Memorial Prize Poetry Competition. He has two pamphlets, and a collection of poems called 'All Island No Sea' (Alien Buddha Press, 2022).