Richard Barrett lives and works in Salford. He is the author of several chapbooks and his second full length collection Free is forthcoming from Blart Books. Besides these publications his work has appeared in a number of anthologies, most recently the Philip Davenport edited The Dark Would. Richard has been invited to read his work out at numerous venues across the UK. He is the founder and editor of the innovative poetry press Department and a co-organizer of the North West based reading series Peter Barlow's Cigarette.