Siegfried Baber was born in Barnstaple, Devon in 1989 and his poetry has featured in a variety of publications including Under The Radar, The Interpreter's House, Butcher's Dog Magazine, online with The Compass Magazine and Ink, Sweat and Tears, and as part of the Bath Literature Festival.

Siegfried's debut pamphlet When Love Came To The Cartoon Kid was published by Telltale Press, with its title poem nominated for the 2015 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.

Siegfried Baber

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The Vanishing Twin

They call it a neutron star.
Some nights, when the darkness
is near-perfect, you can actually see the sky
eating itself alive. The whole process
takes several million years.
And then, in the blink of an eye,
there's a hole in a dismal corner of heaven
like a cigarette-burn in a screen door
where infinity once stirred.