Education
Armstrong was educated at local schools and then read philosophy and English at Sunderland Polytechnic (now the University of Sunderland).
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Peter Armstrong
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Foreign his namesake the Canadian journalist, see Peter Armstrong (journalist). Foreign other namesakes, see below. Peter Armstrong (born in 1957 in Blaydon, North-East England) is a poet and psychotherapist.
He trained as a teacher but then turned to psychiatric nursing, and now works as a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist.
He lives in Stocksfield, Northumberland. in Britain and Ireland after 1945, and Last Words: New for the New Century, and other collections. Armstrong is one of the editors of the Newcastle-based magazine Other, which was revived in 1995 and appears three times a year.
Five poems by Peter Armstrong (born 1939) appeared in 1969 in the anthology Children of Albion: of the Underground in Britain, edited by Michael Horovitz and dedicated to Allen Ginsberg. These were taken from the booklet 28 Poems (Bristol: View Publications, 1966).
Otterburn 1388. Bloody Border Conflict by Peter Armstrong (Illustrated by Stephen Walsh Oxford: Osprey, 2006 ) tells the story of a medieval battle between England and Scotland.
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He is also a member of the Northern Poets" Workshop.
