Peter Redgrove

Peter William Redgrove (2 January 1932 – 16 June 2003) was a prolific and widely respected English poet, who also wrote works with his second wife Penelope Shuttle on menstruation and women's health, novels and plays.

Life
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 Group'. He taught at the University at Buffalo in 1961/2, and was Gregory Fellow at the University of Leeds from 1962 to 1965.

Towards and until the end of his life, Peter lived in Falmouth, Cornwall, United Kingdom, 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.

Writing
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.

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

Poetry

 * 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 Jon Silkin
 * 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 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)
 * 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)
 * 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)
 * Sheen (2003)

Novels

 * 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)
 * 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

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

Nonfiction

 * The Wise Wound - Menstruation & Everywoman (1978) with Penelope Shuttle
 * Alchemy for Women: Personal Transformation Through Dreams and the Female Cycle (1995) with Penelope Shuttle

Edited

 * Poet's Playground 1963 (1963) editor
 * Universities Poetry 7 (1965) editor
 * New Poems 1967 (1968) editor with John Fuller, Harold Pinter
 * Penguin Modern Poets 11 (1968) with D. M. Black and D. M. Thomas
 * Lamb and Thundercloud (1975) editor
 * Cornwall in Verse (1983) editor