James Walton

James Walton is published in many anthologies, journals, and newspapers. He has been shortlisted for the ACU National Poetry Prize, the MPU International Poetry Prize, The James Tate Prize, and the Ada Cambridge Prize. Five collections of his poetry have been published since 2015. He was nominated for ‘The Best of the Net’ 2019, and for the Pushcart Prize 2021 and 2023/24, and is a winner of the Uncollected Press Poetry Chapbook competition. He also writes short stories and flash fiction. He was a farm labourer, a librarian, but mostly a public sector union official.