Peter Armstrong was born in 1957 at Blaydon-on-Tyne, North-East England. After a selection of his early poetry was included in Neil Astley's anthology Ten North-East Poets (1980), his work 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 two pamphlets, Madame Noire (2008) and Two Ceremonies at the Border (2023), both from Shoestring Press. He worked full-time in the NHS as a mental health nurse and CBT specialist, contributing to research papers and text books. He is co-editor with Jake Morris-Campbell of William Martin's Marratide: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2025). He lives in Northumberland.
