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Peter William Redgrove was a prolific and widely respected British poet, who also wrote works with his second wife Penelope Shuttle

Penelope Shuttle

-Life:Shuttle "left school at 17, completing her first novel when she was 20." Her home is in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970. She married the poet Peter Redgrove, who died in 2003, and they have a daughter, Zoe...

on menstruation

Menstruation

Menstruation is the shedding of the uterine lining . It occurs on a regular basis in sexually reproductive-age females of certain mammal species. This article focuses on human menstruation.-Overview:...

and women's health, novels and plays.

Life

He was born in Kingston upon Thames

Kingston upon Thames

Kingston upon Thames is the principal settlement of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in southwest London. It was the ancient market town where Saxon kings were crowned and is now a suburb situated south west of Charing Cross. It is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the...

, Surrey

Surrey

Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...

. He was educated at Taunton School

Taunton School

Taunton School is a co-educational independent school in the county town of Taunton in Somerset in South West England. It serves boarding and day-school pupils from the ages of 13 to 18....

, and Queens' College, Cambridge

Queens' College, Cambridge

Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college was founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou , and refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville...

. While at Cambridge he edited delta

Delta (magazine)

delta was a small poetry magazine which was produced at the University of Cambridge in the late 1950s and 1960s. It was originally edited by Peter Redgrove and Rodney Banister, but Redgrove persuaded Philip Hobsbaum to take over from Issue 3. The magazine introduced various poets including The...

magazine for a couple of issues, and met the poets Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes

Edward James Hughes OM , more commonly known as Ted Hughes, was an English poet and children's writer. Critics routinely rank him as one of the best poets of his generation. Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death.Hughes was married to American poet Sylvia Plath, from 1956 until...

and Harry Guest

Harry Guest

Harry Guest is a British poet born in Wales. He was educated at Malvern College and read Modern Languages at Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge. He wrote a thesis on Mallarmé at the Sorbonne...

. He left in 1954 without taking a degree, married the sculptor Barbara Sherlock, and went into copywriting.

In Cambridge he participated in Philip Hobsbaum

Philip Hobsbaum

Philip Dennis Hobsbaum was a British teacher, poet and critic.-Life:Hobsbaum was born into a Polish Jewish family in London, and brought up in Bradford, in Yorkshire. He read English at Downing College, Cambridge, where he was taught and heavily influenced by F. R. Leavis...

's poetry discussion group. He continued to participate when these discussions moved to London and was thus a member of 'The Group'

The Group (literature)

The Group was an informal group of poets who met in London from the mid 1950s to the mid 1960s. As a poetic movement in Great Britain it is often seen as a being the successor to The Movement.-Cambridge:...

. He taught at the University at Buffalo

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, also commonly known as the University at Buffalo or UB, is a public research university and a "University Center" in the State University of New York system. The university was founded by Millard Fillmore in 1846. UB has multiple campuses...

in 1961/2, and was Gregory Fellow at the University of Leeds

University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...

from 1962 to 1965.

Towards and until the end of his life, Peter lived in Falmouth, Cornwall

Falmouth, Cornwall

Falmouth is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It has a total resident population of 21,635.Falmouth is the terminus of the A39, which begins some 200 miles away in Bath, Somerset....

, United Kingdom, where some of his more magickal/mystical poems were inspired and written. He leaves behind two children from his first marriage, to the sculptor Barbara Redgrove. Also Penelope, his second wife and an accomplished writer in her own right, and daughter Zoe; who is an expert in renewable energy.

The best of his poetry is charged with a sense of wonder, mixing scientific and magical viewpoints in a distinctive and profound way. It is considered by many to be some of the most moving literature by any English poet.

Poetry

At The White Monument (1963) poems Introduced by D. M. Thomas (1969) Broadside. Broadsheet 15.
Love's Journeys (1971) poems
Doctor Faust's Sea-Spiral Spirit & Other Poems (1972) poems
Two Poems (1972)
Sons of My Skin: Selected Poems 1954-1974 (1975) edited by Marie Peel
From Every Chink of the Ark (1977) poems
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)
New Poetry 5: An Arts Council Anthology (1979) editor with Jon Silkin
Jon Silkin
Jon Silkin was a British poet.-Early life:Jon Silkin was born in London, in a Jewish immigrant family and named after Jon Forsyte in The Forsyte Saga, and attended Wycliffe College and Dulwich College During the Second World War he was one of the children evacuated from London ; he remembered that...
The Weddings at Nether Powers (1979) poems
The First Earthquake (1980)
The Apple Broadcast and Other New Poems (1981)
The Facilitators, or Mister Hole-in-the–Day (1982)
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), shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 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)
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
Selected Poems (1999)
From the Virgil Caverns (2002) poems
Sheen (2003)

Novels

In the Country of the Skin (1973) novel
The Hermaphrodite Album (1973) with Penelope Shuttle
Penelope Shuttle
-Life:Shuttle "left school at 17, completing her first novel when she was 20." Her home is in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970. She married the poet Peter Redgrove, who died in 2003, and they have a daughter, Zoe...
From the Reflections of Mr. Glass (1974)
A Romance, The Terror of Dr Treviles (1974) with Penelope Shuttle
Aesculapian Notes (1975)
The Glass Cottage (1976) fiction, with Penelope Shuttle
The Sleep of the Great Hypnotist: The Life and Death and Life After Death of a Modern Magician (1979) novel
The Beekeepers (1980) novel
The God of Glass: A Morality (1979)
The Working of Water (1984)

Short Stories

The Cyclopean Mistress: Selected Short Fiction 1960-1990 (1993)
What the Black Mirror Saw: New Short Fiction and Prose Poetry (1997)

Editor

Poet's Playground 1963 (1963) editor
Universities Poetry 7 (1965) editor
New Poems 1967 (1968) editor with John Fuller
John Fuller (poet)
John Fuller is an English poet and author, and Fellow Emeritus at Magdalen College, Oxford.Fuller was born in Ashford, Kent, England, the son of poet and Oxford Professor Roy Fuller, and educated at St Paul's School and New College, Oxford. He began teaching in 1962 at the State University of New...

, Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter, CH, CBE was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party , The Homecoming , and Betrayal , each of which he adapted to...
Penguin Modern Poets 11 (1968) with D. M. Black and D. M. Thomas
D. M. Thomas
Donald Michael Thomas, known as D. M. Thomas , is a Cornish novelist, poet, and translator.Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall, UK. He attended Trewirgie Primary School and Redruth Grammar School before graduating with First Class Honours in English from New College, Oxford in 1959...
Lamb and Thundercloud (1975) editor
Cornwall in Verse (1983) editor

Prose

The Wise Wound - Menstruation & Everywoman (1978) with Penelope Shuttle
Alchemy for Women: Personal Transformation Through Dreams and the Female Cycle (1995) with Penelope Shuttle

Translations

Para el ojo que duerme (2006) Translator: Jordi Doce. Luis Burgos Arte del Siglo XX.