Peter Dent was born in Forest Gate, London in 1938. He married and began taking writing seriously in the early 1960s. After working in offices and a library, he trained for teaching, from which he retired in 1991. He ran Interim Press for twelve years, publishing a number of books by or on individual writers and artists. His own work has been widely published, in pamphlets, magazines, books and anthologies. He lives in Budleigh Salterton, Devon. 'Handmade Equations' collects over eighty poems written since the beginning of the new century, and exemplifies Peter Dent's quiet but forceful lyric voice, which is both engaged with and yet distanced from the empirical world.