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Peter Redgrove was born in 1932. Apart from producing over thirty full-length collections of poetry he also wrote novels, plays and non-fiction - including The Wise Wound with Penelope Shuttle. Among the many awards he has received are the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Prix Italia and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry; and his collection In the Hall of the Saurians was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. He received an honorary degree from the University of Sheffield, which holds an archive of the poet's papers. He died in 2003. A posthumous collection, The Harper, was published in 2006.
Peter Redgrove is really an extraordinary poet -- George Szirtes Redgrove is tremendously gifted... his exuberance is a form of artistry in itself -- Douglas Dunn Regrove is thunderously, exhilaratingly good... If you need a remedy for our shabby, thin-souled, cash-tilled British times, I can think of no better -- Adam Thorpe Redgrove's language can light up the page -- Angela Carter
