A Father's Day

Pete Mullineaux has taken the long way round before compiling this debut collection, arranged around themes relating to fathers and fatherhood. The focus is primarily on the particulars of fatherhood, as well as male identity in general. He experiments with a variety of forms and presents a quirky but challenging personal-politics, laced with rich irony and humor. Pete Mullineaux grew up in Bristol. UK and was first published, aged 13, in Macmillan's anthology Poetry & Song. He worked in a left wing printing press and played in a punk rock band. The Resisters. When the band split he went solo with gigs ranging from two Glastonbury Festivals to CND protests at Greenham Common and Brockwell Park, sharing the stage with such diverse luminaries as the Pogues and Salman Rushdie.