The Black Goddess and the U, The Terrors of Dr Treviles, Collected Poems, In the Country of the Skin, The beekeepers
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Peter William Redgrove (2 January 1932 – 16 June 2003) was a British poet, who also wrote prose, novels and plays with his second wife Penelope Shuttle.
Redgrove 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 several 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 Redgrove 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. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 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 Penelope Shuttle, had a daughter, Zoe.
Poetry collections
The Collector. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1959.
The Nature of Cold Weather and Other Poems. Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1961.
At The White Monument (1963), poems
The Force and Other Poems. Routledge & Keganaul. 1966.
The God-Trap. Turret Books. 1966.
The Sermon: A Prose-Poem. Poet & Printer. 1966.
Peter Redgrove's work in progress. Poet & Printer. 1968. Introduced by D. M. Thomas (1969)
The Old White Man: A Poem Adapted from a Chinese Tang Dynasty Story. Poet & Printer. 1968.
The Mother, the Daughter, and the Sighing Bridge. Sycamore Press. 1970.
The Shirt, the Skull & the Grape. Sceptre Press. 1970.
