<p><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></p>

Assembling a Ghost (Cape Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

REDGROVE, Peter

Poetry

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Selected Poems - Redgrove

<p>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.</p>

JONATHAN CAPE.

<p>The last collection from one of the most celebrated post-war poets.<br /> <br /> 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.<i>The Harper</i>, 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.</p>

The Harper (Cape Poetry)

<p>Peter Redgrove, who died in 2003, was one of the most prolific of post-war poets and, as this <i>Collected Poems</i> 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 <i>Collected Poems</i>, Neil Roberts has gathered together the best poems from 26 volumes of verse—from <i>The Collector</i> (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.</p>

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

The beekeepers: A novel

Literary

Routledge and Kegan Paul

A true story of two men in one man, held together by their mutual skin.

In the country of the skin

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