CHRIS CAMPBELL

Chris Campbell is a Dublin-born former journalist who lives in Oxford.

 

Chris’ second full collection, ‘Why I Wear My Past to Work’, is published by Parlyaree Press (2025). His new mini pamphlet will be published by Atomic Bohemian in 2026.

 

His poems appear in publications including The Rialto, Magma, Prole, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Waxed Lemon, Sídhe Press, Indigo Dreams’ The Dawntreader, Black Bough Poetry, and Streetcake.

 

Chris was Highly Commended in the 2024 Cobh International Poetry Competition and shortlisted for Canterbury Poet of the Year 2023. He was a Guernsey International Poetry Competition 2022 'Poems on the Buses' winner, received third prize in the Shelley Memorial Prize Poetry Competition 2022 and won The Portico Library’s ‘Poetry Prize’ in 2021. 

 

He features on BBC Radio Bristol, including live interviews and readings in the White Room Studio.

 

Chris has two pamphlets and a collection of poems published, called ‘All Island No Sea’ (Alien Buddha Press, 2022).