Peter Mortimer is a poet, playwright, editor, and traveller who has lived in the North-East of England since l970. More than twenty of his stage plays have been produced and he is the founder and artistic director of Cloud Nine Theatre Productions. In l973 he founded IRON Press, a respected independent literary publisher of new fiction, poetry and drama, and he remains editor to this day. In addition to three poetry collections, he has published various 'extreme' books, including Broke Through Britain, his account of a penniless 500-mile journey from Plymouth to Edinburgh, Cool for Qat, about his travels through remote parts of Yemen to research a play, and recently Camp Shatila, describing the two months he spent living in a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut.

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Peter Mortimer is a poet, playwright, editor, and traveller who has lived in the North-East of England since l970. More than twenty of his stage plays have been produced and he is the founder and artistic director of Cloud Nine Theatre Productions. In l973 he founded IRON Press, a respected independent literary publisher of new fiction, poetry and drama, and he remains editor to this day. In addition to three poetry collections, he has published various 'extreme' books, including Broke Through Britain, his account of a penniless 500-mile journey from Plymouth to Edinburgh, Cool for Qat, about his travels through remote parts of Yemen to research a play, and recently Camp Shatila, describing the two months he spent living in a Palestinian refugee camp in Beirut.