Peter Redgrove

Peter Redgrove

Peter William Redgrove (1932- 2003) was a prolific and widely respected British poet, who also wrote works with his second wife Penelope Shuttle on menstruation and women's health, novels and plays.

He was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. He was educated at Taunton School, and Queens' College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he edited "delta" magazine for a couple of issues, and met the poets Ted Hughes and Harry Guest. He left in 1954 without taking a degree, married the sculptor Barbara Sherlock, and went into copywriting.

In Cambridge he participated in Philip Hobsbaum's poetry discussion group. He continued to participate when these discussions moved to London and was thus a member of the 'The Group'. He taught at the University at Buffalo in 1961/2, and was Gregory Fellow at the University of Leeds from 1962 to 1965.

He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1996.

Towards and until the end of his life, Peter lived in Falmouth, Cornwall, England, where some of his more magickal/mystical poems were inspired and written. He leaves behind two children from his first marriage, to the sculptor Barbara Redgrove. Also Penelope, his second wife and an accomplished writer in her own right, and daughter Zoe; who is an expert in renewable energy.

The best of his poetry is charged with a sense of wonder, mixing scientific and magical viewpoints in a distinctive and profound way. It is considered by many to be some of the most moving literature by any English poet.

Works

*The Collector (1959) poems
*The Nature of Cold Weather and Other Poems (1961)
*At The White Monument (1963) poems
*Poet's Playground 1963 (1963) editor
* Universities Poetry 7 (1965) editor
*The Force and Other Poems (1966)
*The God-Trap (1966).
*The Sermon: A Prose-Poem (1966)
*New Poems 1967 (1968) editor with John Fuller, Harold Pinter
*Penguin Modern Poets 11 (1968) with D. M. Black and D. M. Thomas
*Peter Redgrove's work in progress 1968. Introduced by D. M. Thomas (1969)
*The Old White Man: A Poem Adapted from a Chinese Tang Dynasty Story (1968?)
*The Mother, the Daughter, and the Sighing Bridge (1970)
*The Shirt, the Skull & the Grape (1970)
*Lover Hating Lover. (1970). Broadside.
*The Bedside Clock. (1971) Sycamore Broadsheet 15.
*Love's Journeys (1971) poems
*Doctor Faust's Sea-Spiral Spirit & Other Poems (1972) poems
*Three Pieces for Voices (1972)
*Two Poems (1972)
*In the Country of the Skin (1973) novel
*The Hermaphrodite Album (1973) with Penelope Shuttle
*From the Reflections of Mr. Glass (1974)
*A Romance,The Terror of Dr Treviles (1974) with Penelope Shuttle
*Aesculapian Notes (1975)
*Sons of My Skin: Selected Poems 1954-1974 (1975) edited by Marie Peel
*Lamb and Thundercloud (1975) editor
*The Glass Cottage (1976) fiction, with Penelope Shuttle
*From Every Chink of the Ark (1977) poems
*Miss Carstairs Dressed for Blooding & Other Plays (1977).
*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)
*The Wise Wound - Menstruation & Everywoman (1978) with Penelope Shuttle
*New Poetry 5: An Arts Council Anthology (1979) editor with Jon Silkin
*The Sleep of the Great Hypnotist: The Life and Death and Life After Death of a Modern Magician (1979) novel
*The God of Glass: A Morality (1979)
*The Weddings at Nether Powers (1979) poems
*The Beekeepers (1980) novel
*The First Earthquake (1980)
*The Apple Broadcast and Other New Poems (1981)
*The Facilitators, or Mister Hole-in-the –Day (1982)
*Cornwall in Verse (1983) editor
*The Working of Water (1984)
*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 Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1987
*The Moon Disposes: Poems 1954— 1987 (1987)
*The Black Goddess and the Sixth Sense (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)
*The Cyclopean Mistress: Selected Short Fiction 1960-1990 (1993)
*My Father's Trapdoors (1994)
*Alchemy for Women: Personal Transformation Through Dreams and the Female Cycle (1995) with Penelope Shuttle
*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
*What the Black Mirror Saw: New Short Fiction and Prose Poetry (1997)
*Selected Poems (1999)
*From the Virgil Caverns (2002) poems
*Sheen (2003)

Translations

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

ee also

* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/06/18/db1802.xml "Daily Telegraph" obituary]
*"Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" article by Margaret Drabble "Redgrove, Peter William (1932–2003)" online edn., Jan 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/90053] accessed 30 April 2007]
* [http://www.shef.ac.uk/library/special/redpape.html Redgrove papers at the Library of the University of Sheffield]


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