Grace Note

Peter Godfrey’s first collection is a book of reports from the front-line, messages sent from over the border, beyond the edge of the map – Madrid 1939, Oradour 1944, Hiroshima 1945, Santiago 1973, San Carlos Bay 1982. It’s a celebration of those who – like Dom Helder Câmara, René Magritte, Oscar Neimeyer, Wat Tyler and Jacques Brel – have understood ‘the glory of pedalling the wrong way on a one-way street’. And it’s a hymn to the patient humility of those who believe that life does not have to be like this, and who imbue the world with grace.

Author Biography

Peter Godfrey was born in 1950, grew up in London and studied languages at Cambridge. He worked for many years as a journalist at the Liverpool Daily Post & Echo, the pre-Murdoch Times and Associated Press Television News. A passion for music and Latin America led him to co-found the London-based Latin band Rompiendo Fronteras. His poems have appeared in the Morning Star, Northwords Now, Never Bury Poetry, A Kist of Thistles and The Cry of the Poor. He currently lives in the Outer Hebrides.