Chris Hall is a poet and artist, and child of the immediate post-war years. Originally from North Kent, he has lived in South Wales for four-and-a-half decades, a quarter-of-a- century of them being in Abergavenny, and currently works from a studio in The Apple Store Gallery in Hereford.

He first became actively involved with the creative arts, and poetry and its performance in particular, in the celebrated 1960s revival.
During a fallow period in literary terms in the late1970s and 80s he, among other things, trained as a psychiatric nurse, an experience
that had a major effect on his writing and was instrumental in the development of the idiosyncratic lexical, formal and expressive
register that characterises his output.

After moving to the Wales Valleys in 1980, he embarked on a full-time degree, subsequently becoming a visiting lecturer in cultural
studies, political and social history and psychology.

He started giving readings and publishing again after returning from teaching English in Prague, immediately after the collapse of the
Warsaw Pact, when he discovered the thriving artistic community that had developed in and around the Gwent area, in Abergavenny
in particular, and with which he found himself became enthusiastically involved.

Since then, his work has appeared in a number of magazines and journals, eventually having his retrospective collection No Fish
issued by The Collective Press in 2019.