John Muckle is a fiction writer, poet and critic. He is the author of six books of fiction, including The Cresta Run (Galloping Dog Press, 1987), Cyclomotors , an acclaimed short illustrated novel set in the early 1950s (available through Shearsman Books), and the novels London Brakes (Shearsman, 2010), My Pale Tulip (2012) and Falling Through (2017). His first full-length poetry collection, Firewriting and Other Poems , appeared from Shearsman in 2005, and a sequel, Mirrorball , came out in 2018. Little White Bull (2014), his study of British fiction in the 50s and 60s, remapped its chosen period in an original way. In the eighties he launched the Paladin Poetry imprint and was general editor of its flagship anthology, The New British Poetry (eds. D'Aguiar, Allnutt, Edwards, Mottram, 1988). He lives in North London, and works as a teacher.