Peter William Redgrove (2 January 1932 – 16 June 2003) was a British poet, who also wrote prose, novels and plays with his second wife

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Life and career

Redgrove was born in

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, Surrey. He was educated at

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, and

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. While at Cambridge he edited ''Delta'' magazine for several issues, and met the poets

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and Harry Guest. He left in 1954 without taking a degree, married the sculptor Barbara Sherlock, and went into copywriting. In Cambridge Redgrove participated in

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's poetry discussion group. He continued to participate when these discussions moved to London and was thus a member of 'The Group'. He taught at the

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in 1961/2, and was Gregory Fellow at the

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from 1962 to 1965. He was awarded the

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in 1996. Redgrove had three children from his first marriage to the sculptor Barbara Redgrove, William, Peter and Katherine. He and his second wife, poet

, had a daughter, Zoe.

Works

Poetry collections

* * *''At The White Monument'' (1963), poems * * * * Introduced by D. M. Thomas (1969) * * * * Broadside. * Broadsheet 15. *''Love's Journeys'' (1971), poems *''Doctor Faust's Sea-Spiral Spirit & Other Poems'' (1972), poems * *''Two Poems'' (1972) *''Sons of My Skin: Selected Poems 1954–1974'' (1975), edited by Marie Peel *''From Every Chink of the Ark'' (1977), poems *''Skull Event'' (1977) *''Ten Poems'' (1977) *''The Fortifiers, the Vitrifiers, and the Witches'' (1977) *''Happiness'' (1978), poems *''The White, Night-Flying Moths Called Souls'' (1978) *''New Poetry 5: An Arts Council Anthology'' (1979), editor with

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*''The Weddings at Nether Powers'' (1979), poems *''The First Earthquake'' (1980) *''The Apple Broadcast and Other New Poems'' (1981) *''The Facilitators, or Mister Hole-in-the–Day'' (1982) *''Man Named East and other New Poems'' (1985) *''The Explanation of the Two Visions'' (1985) *''The Mudlark Poems & Grand Buveur'' (1986) *''In the Hall of the Saurians'' (1987), shortlisted for the

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in 1987 *''The Moon Disposes: Poems'' 1954—1987 (1987) *''The One Who Set Out To Study Fear'' (1989) *''Poems 1954–1987'' (1989) *''Dressed as for a Tarot Pack'' (1990), poems *''Under the Reservoir'' (1992), poems *''The Laborators'' (1993) * *''Abyssophone'' (1995) *''Assembling a Ghost'' (1996), poems *''The Book of Wonders: The Best of Peter Redgrove's Poetry'' (1996), edited by Jeremy Robinson *''Orchard End'' (1997), poems *''Selected Poems'' (1999) *''From the Virgil Caverns'' (2002), poems *''Sheen'' (2003) *''Collected Poems'' (2012)

Novels

*''In the Country of the Skin'' (1973), novel *''The Hermaphrodite Album'' (1973), with

*''From the Reflections of Mr. Glass'' (1974) *''A Romance, The Terror of Dr Treviles'' (1974), with Penelope Shuttle *''Aesculapian Notes'' (1975) *''The Glass Cottage'' (1976), fiction, with Penelope Shuttle *''The Sleep of the Great Hypnotist: The Life and Death and Life After Death of a Modern Magician'' (1979), novel *''The Beekeepers'' (1980), novel *''The God of Glass: A Morality'' (1979) *''The Working of Water'' (1984)

Plays

*''Miss Carstairs Dressed for Blooding & Other Plays'' (1977).

Short Stories collections

*''The Cyclopean Mistress: Selected Short Fiction'' 1960–1990 (1993) *''What the Black Mirror Saw: New Short Fiction and Prose Poetry'' (1997)

As editor

*''Poet's Playground 1963'' (1963), editor *''Universities Poetry 7'' (1965), editor *''New Poems 1967'' (1968), editor with John Fuller,

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*''

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11'' (1968), with D. M. Black and

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*''Lamb and Thundercloud'' (1975), editor *''Cornwall in Verse'' (1983), editor

Prose books

*''The Wise Wound – Menstruation & Everywoman'' (1978), with Penelope Shuttle *''Alchemy for Women: Personal Transformation Through Dreams and the Female Cycle'' (1995), with Penelope Shuttle *''The Black Goddess and the Sixth Sense'' (1987)

Translations

*''Para el ojo que duerme'' (2006). Translator: Jordi Doce. Luis Burgos Arte del Siglo XX.

External links

"Peter Redgrove" (obituary)
''Daily Telegraph'', 18 June 2003. *

Margaret Drabble Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, (born 5 June 1939) is an English biographer, novelist and short story writer. Drabble's books include '' The Millstone'' (1965), which won the following year's John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and ''Jer ...

"Redgrove, Peter William (1932–2003)"
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'', online edn, January 2007. Retrieved 30 April 2007.
Redgrove papers
at the Library of the University of Sheffield.
Review of Redgrove's Collected Poems
in the ''Oxonian Review''.

*Archival Material at *https://www.cairn.info/revue-etudes-anglaises-2013-4-page-470.htm#
Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library
Emory University
Letters to Peter Redgrove, circa 1966-1984
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