This page is about the UK poet Peter Armstrong. For his namesake the Canadian journalist, see Peter Armstrong (journalist)

Peter Armstrong (journalist)

Peter Armstrong is a Canadian radio and television journalist, who is currently the weekday anchor of CBC Radio One's morning news program World Report.He is married to Piya Chattopadhyay, also a CBC journalist.-External links:*...

. For other namesakes, see below.

Peter Armstrong (born in 1957 in Blaydon

Blaydon

Blaydon-on-Tyne is a town in the North East of England in the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead. The former urban district, however, extends much further, its fourteen and a half square miles constituting the largest administrative district, after Newcastle, on Tyneside...

, NE England) is a poet and psychotherapist.

Life

Armstrong was educated at local schools and then read philosophy and English at Sunderland Polytechnic (now the University of Sunderland

University of Sunderland

The University of Sunderland is located in Sunderland, north east England. The university has more than 17,500 students, including 7,000-plus international students from some 70 countries....

). While at polytechnic, he was converted from Roman Catholicism to Evangelical Protestantism, but more recently has described himself as an "Anglo-Catholic agnostic". He trained as a teacher but then turned to psychiatric nursing, and now works as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist. He lives in Stocksfield

Stocksfield

Stocksfield is a small, sprawling commuter village situated close to the River Tyne, about west of Newcastle upon Tyne and east of Hexham in the southern part of Northumberland, England...

, Northumberland

Northumberland

Northumberland is the northernmost ceremonial county and a unitary district in North East England. For Eurostat purposes Northumberland is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "Northumberland and Tyne and Wear" NUTS 2 region...

.

Poetry

Armstrong began to publish his poetry in the late 1970s, contributing to magazines and to Ten North-East Poets, The Firebox. Poetry in Britain and Ireland after 1945, and Last Words: New Poetry for the New Century, and other collections. He won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 1984. His first volume of poetry, Risings, appeared in 1988 and has been followed by three others.

Armstrong is one of the editors of the Newcastle-based magazine Other Poetry, which was revived in 1995 and appears three times a year. He is also a member of the Northern Poets' Workshop. His work is marked by joint preoccupations with religion and the landscape---of his native North-East, but also of the Hebrides and of a notional American drawn from road movie

Road movie

A road movie is a film genre in which the main character or characters leave home to travel from place to place. They usually leave home to escape their current lives.-History:...

s and cigarette advertising. His verse has been influenced more recently by his work as a cognitive therapist.

Namesakes

Five poems by Peter Armstrong (born 1939) appeared in 1969 in the anthology Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain

Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain

Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain, an anthology of poetry, was edited by Michael Horovitz and published by Penguin Books in 1969...

, edited by Michael Horovitz

Michael Horovitz

Michael Horovitz is an English poet, artist and translator.-Life and career:Michael Horovitz was the youngest of ten children who were brought to England from Nazi Germany by their parents, both of whom were part of a network of European-rabbinical families...

 and dedicated to Allen Ginsburg. These were taken from the booklet 28 Poems (Bristol: View Publications, 1966).

Otterburn 1388. Bloody Border Conflict by Peter Armstrong (Illustrated by Stephen Walsh. Oxford: Osprey, 2006. ISBN 1841769800) tells the story of a medieval battle between England and Scotland.