Keiran Goddard was born and raised in Shard End, Birmingham and educated at Oxford. His work has previously been published in a number of magazines and anthologies and his first pamphlet, Strings, was published by Antler Press in 2013. FOR THE CHORUS is his debut collection. He has worked as a journalist and editor and in higher education. He now works in the third sector, is a poetry editor for the Squawk Back and is undertaking a research project on contemporary poetics. His other interests include wine, whiskey, books, music and invective.