Siegfried Baber was born in 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 and the Quiet Compere Poetry Tour.

His 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. In 2020, he published London Road West, a limited edition ebook of poems and photographs. A new chapbook of poems, The Twice-Turned Earth is published by Poetry Salzburg.

Siegfried Baber

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Saigyō and The Moon

Nobody visits Saigyō anymore
except the moon, that peeping-tom
tiptoeing through the forest.