William Peskett

William Peskett (born 1952) is a Northern Irish poet.

Peskett was educated in Belfast and at Cambridge University, where he read natural sciences.

He has published two volumes of poems, "The Nightowl’s Dissection" (Secker & Warburg 1975) and "Survivors" (Secker & Warburg 1980), [cite book |title=British Poetry 1964 to 1984: Driving Through the Barricades |last=Booth |first=Martin |year=1985 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0710096062 |pages=p.162 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VwEOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA162&dq=%22William+Peskett%22&num=100&as_brr=3&sig=yaMxCFq-I_Mm6D-JGSYajSnoaeU |accessdate=2008-06-15] for the first of which he won an Eric Gregory Award for poetry. [cite web |url=http://www.societyofauthors.org/prizes_grants_and_awards/prizes-for-fiction-and-non-fiction/the_eric_gregory_awards/eric_gregory_past_winners.html |title=Eric Gregory Trust Fund Awards (winners) |work=The Society of Authors |accessdate=2008-06-15 ] In the 1970s, Peskett edited the poetry magazine, "Caret", with Trevor McMahon and Robert Johnstone. [cite book |title=New Poems: A P.E.N. Anthology of Contemporary Poetry |last=Conn |first=Stewart |year=1974 |publisher=Hutchinson |isbn=0091204003 |pages=p. 178 |url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DfZZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22William+Peskett%22+%2Bcaret&dq=%22William+Peskett%22+%2Bcaret&num=100&pgis=1 |accessdate=2008-06-15] He wrote two novels, "Pondlife" and "Losing Yourself". He has worked in teaching, journalism, marketing, design management and corporate relations and lives in London.

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