Joseph Long lives and works on the Medway as a father and Engineer, writing poetry between shifts. He has a passion for works which reflect working class life & culture and his main influences are John Cooper Clarke, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Don Paterson, Paul Muldoon & Seamus Heaney. Joseph has been published by Stand, ingénu/e, The Brussels Review and he was also highly commended in the Erbacce Prize for Poetry in 2024.