Cliff Forshaw’s collections include Vandemonian (Arc, 2013), Pilgrim Tongues (Wrecking Ball, 2015), Satyr (Shoestring, 2017), and RE:VERB (Broken Sleep, 2022). .French Leave: Versions and Perversions, from which the poems here are taken, is due from Broken Sleep. He has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at York and Hull Universities, twice a Hawthornden Writing Fellow, and held residences in California, France, Kyrgizstan, Romania, and Tasmania. He is also a painter.

Cliff Forshaw's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises two contributions of poetry, over a period of five years.