Peter (William) Redgrove - Works

Poet and writer, born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, SE England, UK. He was educated at Taunton School and at Cambridge, where he became a friend of Ted Hughes and a founder member of an association of poets, the Group. A gifted and imaginative poet, his books include The Moon Disposes: Poems 1954–87 (1987). He produced numerous novels, plays, and non-fiction works, including a pioneering work with his second wife, Penelope Shuttle (1947– ), The Wise Wound: Menstruation and Every Woman (1978). Awards include the Guardian Fiction prize (1973), the Prix Italia (1982), and the Cholmondely Award (1985). In 1996 he was awarded the Queen's Medal for Poetry.

Works

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). 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 & 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)