Paul Munden

Note: “If you can’t trust the future, who can you trust” was previously published in the Recent Work Press (Canberra) anthology: Pulse (2016, eds. Shane Strange and Monica Carroll) and is republished here with permission.

Paul Munden has published five collections, most recently Chromatic (UWAP, 2017). He was director of Poetry on the Move, 2015-17, and director of the UK’s National Association of Writers in Education, 1994-2018. He has worked as conference poet for the British Council, reader for Stanley Kubrick, and script editor for GSP Studios. He is co-editor with Nessa O’Mahony of Metamorphic: 21st century poets respond to Ovid (Recent Work Press, 2017).