Peter Forbes

Peter Forbes is a British science writer and journalist. He was the editor of The Poetry Review from 1986 until 2002. Forbes was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University of London from 2004 until 2007 and at St George's, University of London from 2010 until 2012. His 2005 book The Gecko's Foot was long-listed for the 2006 Aventis Prize and his 2009 book Dazzled and Deceived won the 2011 Warwick Prize for Writing.