Caleb Parkin

Caleb Parkin was Bristol City Poet 2020 – 22, with poems appearing in The Guardian, The Rialto and numerous other journals. He was a guest on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please and featured as Radio 3 Breakfast’s Poem of the Week. He has published three pamphlets: Wasted Rainbow (tall-lighthouse, 2021), The Coin (Broken Sleep, 2022), and All the Cancelled Parties (2022), bringing together collected City Poet commissions. His second collection, Mingle (Nine Arches, October 2024), featured in Resurgence and Ecologist magazine. His debut, This Fruiting Body (Nine Arches, 2021), was longlisted for the Laurel Prize and recently published in Danish. Caleb tutors extensively and joyfully, for the Poetry School, Poetry Society, Arvon, Metanoia Institute and beyond. He has an MSc in Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes and is a practice-based PhD researcher in ecopoetry at University of Exeter with RENEW Biodiversity.