Joseph Long lives and works on the Medway as a father and Engineer, writing poetry between shifts. He has a passion for works which reflect working class life & culture and his main influences are John Cooper Clarke, Christopher Reid, Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton & Douglas Dunn.
 
Joseph has been published by Stand, Blackbox Manifold, The Rumen, The Amethyst, Littoral Magazine and ingénu/e and he was also highly commended in the Erbacce Prize for Poetry in 2024.