Preddle, Chris: - Chris Preddle has retired from library work, in public libraries and with two childcare charities. He lived for many years in the village of Holme in West Yorkshire, on a windy shoulder of the Pennines. His second collection wasCattle Console Him (2010). He won the firstPN Review Prize in 2017, has been shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize (2012), was second in the Strokestown competition (2012), and won theScintilla competition for shorter poems (2007). His work has appeared in many magazines in Britain and Ireland. He is translating the songs and poems of Sappho.