Collected Poems

Peter Redgrove

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Jonathan Cape Ltd
15 January 2012

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'Peter Redgrove is a major poet of the English language, an imaginative colossus.' D. M. Thomas

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 twenty-six 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.

By: Peter Redgrove
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 223mm, Width: 141mm, Spine: 46mm
Weight: 756g
ISBN: 9780224090278
ISBN 10: 0224090275
Pages: 528
Publication Date: 15 January 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Redgrove was born in 1932 and studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge. He was also a novelist, playwright and co-author (with Penelope Shuttle) of The Wise Wound, a revolutionary study of the human fertility cycle. Among his many awards were the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Prix Italia and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He died in 2003.

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Redgrove was a lavishly gifted poet and we should celebrate him. * The Guardian * Peter Redgrove is a major poet of the English language, an imaginative colossus...He deserves to be as well-known and celebrated as Hughes and Heaney. -- D. M. Thomas Like standing under a waterfall in full spate. -- Kathleen Raine No other poet shows life so intensely. -- John Fuller Redgrove's language can light up a page. -- Angela Carter

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