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The Machineries of Joy
The Machineries of Joy is the vibrant, uproarious, pointed, & wildly entertaining new collection from renowned Cardiff-based performance poet, Peter Finch. Known for his inventive and multi-faceted formal strategies & his best-selling psycho-geographical peregrinations around Wales and the USA, he gives us the world in all its contemporary complexity.
Finch, Bloody Finch
Peter Finch remains one of those British cult-heroes who, despite Network (and his posthumous Oscar), never truly caught on with U.S. fans. Finch's childhood is fascinating on any terms: doubly abandoned child of an Australian father and an English mum who quickly divorced, Peter was first raised by a madcap Theosophist grandma who yanked him from Paris to India--where he wandered off to become a nine-year-old Buddhist monk before being hauled back to Australia by paternal relations. Rebelling against these proper folk, Peter would always want to be a "bum"; but rejected and identity-less, he'd always be "a little boy so frightened in his own skin that he jumped out of it and into that of others." This book traces Finch's career--quick rise to Australian radio/stage stardom, a second climb (mentored by Olivier) in London, the movies-- the marriages, affairs, carousings, breakdowns, etc. The truly riveting personal material here is the tortured liaison with ill Vivien Leigh. Though often a tad over-ripe, it is energetic, well-researched, and certainly the definitive Finch bio.
SwingQuest
SwingQuest is PGA Coach Peter Finch's first coaching book! Based on lessons delivered at Quest Golf Academy Finch shows how changes made to his clients improved techniques, scores and enjoyment of this wonderful sport. This book focuses on what Finch has learnt about the full swing throughout a decade coaching golfers of all abilities. It also looks at how technical models don't truly exist and how golfers need to learn that they have their own swing to master.
Real Cardiff
A further alternative illustrated guide to Cardiff offering interesting information about the past and present of the outlying areas of the city, their streets, churches and pubs, railways and industries, place names and famous personalities. A sequel to Real Cardiff. 78 black-and-white photographs and 3 maps.
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Walking Cardiff
Poet and psychogeographer Peter Finch undertakes 20 walks around his native city, picking out features en route and providing interesting stories, historical and contemporary, about life in the city past and present. His sharp eye and compendious knowledge of Cardiff is illustrated by photographer John Briggs' images in a lively guide to the city.
Real Powys
Observant, passionate, witty, offbeat, Mike Parker tours Powys from the border towns of Hay on Wye, Presteigne and Knighton, through the interior and on to the furthest points of Newtown, Penybont, Ystradgynlais and Brecon. What surprises does he stumble upon among the mountains, forests, streams and farms of this mysterious countryside?
Edging the Estuary
The Severn Estuary: border, trade route, home of industry and leisure. Peter Finch walks the Welsh and English sides and explores its significance past and present, to him and the people who live by it, from tidal Maismore to Worm's Head and Lynmouth.
Edging the City
"What Edging the City does so effectively, though, is defamiliarize and enrich these landscapes, with allusion, digression and depth, all painted in seemingly effortless poetic prose. Finch lifts the apparently mundane to a place of real literary significance, giving some of these lesser-known quarters the attention they deserve."– Nation.Cymru Finch's writing is as jovial as it is fascinating...Edging The City is engaging in every sense of the word." – Buzz Magazine Peter Finch is perhaps the foremost chronicler of Cardiff, past and present. His response to the 2020 lockdown restrictions confining people to their local authority area was to begin walking the boundary of his. Full of insights and discoveries that will delight walkers and armchair travellers alike, Edging the City offers a view of Cardiff like no other.
