Peter J. King (born and brought up in Boston, Lincolnshire) was active on the London poetry scene in the 1970s, returning to poetry in 2013, since when he has been widely published. His available collections are Adding Colours to the Chameleon (Wisdom’s Bottom) and All What Larkin (Albion Beatnik).Web site: https://wisdomsbottompress.wordpress.com/
Wisdom's Bottom Press 
I especially like your Anne Boleyn poem Peter: so carefully constructed and understated. I found myself wondering about the shape of the poem on the page, whether it was intended to convey any particular visual image. I thought perhaps not, that you simply wished to slow down the reader’s eye. It repays a slow read.
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Thank you! The *fact* of the shape of my poems stems mainly from a feeling that, with all that blank space on the page or screen, it seems a pity to squeeze the words up, cowering against the left-hand margin. The particular shape is sometimes a simple matter of trying to make the poem interesting and attractive visually as well as linguistically, semantically, etc., but wherever appropriate I also use it to fit with the content or the choice of language. In “Anne Boleyn”, for example, the shape of the poem creates a visual shift at the point where the imagery shifts, taking up the swan reference and turning it.
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