Collected Poems
$92.29
- Hardcover
528 pages
- Release Date
15 January 2012
Summary
‘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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224090278 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224090275 |
| Author: | Peter Redgrove |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 15 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 756g |
| Dimensions: | 46mm x 141mm x 223mm |
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Critics Review
Redgrove’s language can light up a page.
Redgrove’s language can light up a page. – Angela Carter
No other poet shows life so intensely. – John Fuller
Like standing under a waterfall in full spate. – Kathleen Raine
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
Redgrove was a lavishly gifted poet and we should celebrate him. * The Guardian *
Fling yourself into it as you would dive into the sea. It throws you and rolls you about. * Tablet *
Peter Redgrove
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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