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Cornwall in Verse

Literature & Fiction

REDGROVE, Peter

Poetry

Penguin

<div> <div>A collection of poetry from Peter Redgrove. His poems cover a range of topics, from a summer cycle ride in Esher to the treatment of rust, from porridge to insects, and from leather goods to shell suits.</div> </div>

Assembling a Ghost (Cape Poetry)

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Selected Poems - Redgrove

From the 1950s onwards Peter Redgrove wrote poems of imagination and power; this volume is a distillation of his work from The Collector (1959) to Assembling a Ghost (1996), enabling the reader to appreciate the elements of his alchemy.

JONATHAN CAPE.

The last collection from one of the most celebrated post-war poets. Peter Redgrove, who died in June 2003, was a friend and contemporary of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath and became one of the most celebrated and prolific post-war poets - regarded by many as a true visionary.The Harper, which gathers together his last poems, is a collection still charged with characteristic energy, eroticism and transforming imagination. Redgrove's language thrills with thunder, rain and electricity, the air heavy with perfumes and balsams, wasps and spiders - and reading these poems is uncannily like re-entering a dream. Peter Redgrove made us look at our world with fresh eyes, and he changed our perception forever.

The Harper (Cape Poetry)

Peter Redgrove, who died in 2003, was one of the most prolific of post-war poets and, as this Collected Poems reveals, one of the finest. A friend and contemporary of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath in the early 1950s, Redgrove was regarded by many as their equal, and his work has been championed by a wide variety of writers, from Margaret Drabble to Colin Wilson, Douglas Dunn to Seamus Heaney. Ted Hughes once wrote warmly to Redgrove of "how important you've been to me. You've no idea how much—right from the first time we met." In this first Collected Poems, Neil Roberts has gathered together the best poems from 26 volumes of verse—from The Collector (1959) to the three books published posthumously. The result is an unearthed treasure trove—poems that find new and thrilling ways of celebrating the natural world and the human condition, poems that dazzle with their visual imagination, poems that show the huge range and depth of the poet's art. In Redgrove's poetry there is a unique melding of the erotic, the terrifying, the playful, the strange, and the strangely familiar; his originality and energy is unparalleled in our time and his work was the work of a true visionary.

Collected Poems

History & Criticism

The work of the poet Peter Redgrove is one of the great unexplored treasures of late 20th century literature. His prolific output presents an intriguing variety of personae: magician, scientist, lover, psychologist, joker, madman. It is only now, with the publication of his Collected Poems and this biography, that we can see how and why these personae developed, and discover the full depth and range of this visionary writer. Born into an apparently conventional middle-class family that was in reality deeply disturbed, the poet finally emerged: transforming himself from the neurotic, Oedipal young scientist, through a process of mental breakdown, insulin coma therapy, erotic revelation, and the discovery of poetic companionship at Cambridge—and particularly his friendship and rivalry with Ted Hughes. Neil Roberts explores the inner story of this emergence, and Redgrove's later development through marriage, family life, the fellowship of the "Group," alcoholic excess, infidelity, and marital breakdown to his triumphant later partnership with Penelope Shuttle. We also discover, for the first time, some darker secrets: his fascination with Aleister Crowley, his damaged and damaging relationship with his father, and the lifelong sexual fetish which he called the "Game." Drawing on the poet's intimate journals and correspondence, and interviews with family, friends, and colleagues, A Lucid Dreamer tells the exceptionally inward and revealing story of an astonishing creative life.

A Lucid Dreamer: The Life of Peter Redgrove

Biographies & Memoirs

Roberts, Neil

Arts & Literature

The wise wound: Eve's curse and everywoman

SHUTTLE, Penelope

Richard Marek Publishers

The God of Glass: Morality

London & Henly: Routledge & Kegan Paul

George Pfoundes is the greatest hypnotist of his generation. He has invented an extraordinary machine, the Pfoudnes Oscilloscope, which uses the resources of television technology to achieve miraculous cures by hypnotism, even to healing the blind. Pfoundes believes that hypnotism can raise the he is obsessed with the possibilities - so much enhanced by his invention - of this modern magic. Dying, he hypnotises his daughter, Angela, with his great Oscilloscope, and gives her a hypnotic command to find some means of bringing him back from the grave. How can Angela ever free herself from the posthumous personality of this terrible Father, who dies even as he holds her in the hypnotic trance? In this novel Peter Redgrove explores the fascinating world of the strange powers of the mind revealed by hypnosis. He examines the dilemmas of both hypnotiser and hypnotised, as it might be any parent and any child, and takes some side-swipes at television's power over us all. With his customary mixture of bizarre invention, profound feeling and sexual gusto, he shows how even such an awesome Father can be conquered. The book comes with a new introduction by Cliff Ashcroft. 'The author is a sorcerer who entices the mesmerised reader into the realms of magic and imagination. The reader is promptly inveigled into the extraordinary world of the occult by a plainness of approach that is in itself quite uncanny.' (The Spectator) 'Dreams, trances, heightened sexual awareness and religious ecstasy are presented with plain assurance and total conviction.' (The Observer) Peter Redgrove (1932-2003) worked in several interlinked as a poet, novelist, playwright, and in psychological practice. He believed creative, psychological and scientific work are aspects of the same common study, and his insights are profound, illuminating and constantly exciting. He received many awards during his life and was especially honoured by receiving the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1996.

The sleep of the great hypnotist: The life and death and life after death of a modern magician

Routledge and K. Paul

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Cornwall in Verse

Assembling a Ghost (Cape Poetry)

Selected Poems - Redgrove

Selected Poems - Redgrove

The Harper (Cape Poetry)

Collected Poems

A Lucid Dreamer: The Life of Peter Redgrove

The wise wound: Eve's curse and everywoman

The God of Glass: Morality

The sleep of the great hypnotist: The life and death and life after death of a modern magician