Peter Redgrove

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Peter William Redgrove (1932- 2003) was a prolific 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, 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.

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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)
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)