Peter Howard was educated at Hertford College, Oxford and now lives in Milton, a village just outside Cambridge, UK, where
he is a telecommunications systems design consultant (whatever that means) for Hidalgo and a poet (whatever that means). He's written
a booklet of poems called Low Probability of
Racoons (you
might want to know why it has that name), had poems published in
magazines, on the WWW, and read on television. You can find some samples here, and lots of links to other interesting poetry-related sites.
For five years, Peter wrote an Internet poetry column for Poetry Review, and he occasionally acts as guide for those
wanting to find out about poetry and literature on the 'net. He has acted as
Section Leader and joint Sysop of CompuServe's Poetry Forum.
He took part in the first trAce conference on Writers & the Internet
held at the Broadway Media Centre, Nottingham, and in the Beyond Art? colloquium held in the Oxford Union Debating
Chamber. You can now read the papers presented by some of the speakers at the
colloquium.
He has been a tutor for the trAce Writing School, teaching Animated
Poetry in Flash.
Peter is a member of the performance group The Joy of Six.
You can read his Who's Who in Poetry entry, or his Poetry Kit Interview, both at the excellent Poetry Kit site. Or you could take a look at his
occasional soundpoetry blog at: Subatomic Poetry
Elsewhere on this site, you can the starting points for the hypertext
poems Midwinter Fair and The Darkness of Summer. You can find out how you can take part in the Midwinter Fair, by adding your own poem
to it. If you've a frames and Javascript browser, try Peter's Poetry
Program for
generating automatic verse, the bizarre dynamic poem Millennium, the innovative Triptych hypertext, or his illustrated hypertext called
Back. He also has a number of hypertexts written in Macromedia Flash.
Finally, don't forget to take a look at KidsTuff - poetry for children, with illustrations by
Andrea McKenzie.
Biography taken on Tues, 9 Dec 2008 from: http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/petepic.htm