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He was born in Kingston-upon-Thames , Surrey . He was educated at Taunton School , and Queens' College, Cambridge . While at Cambridge he edited ''Delta'' magazine, and met the poets Ted Hughes and Harry Guest . He left in 1954 without taking a degree, married the sculptor Barbara Sherlock , and went into copywriting.

In Cambridge he participated in Philip Hobsbaum 's poetry discussion group. He continued to participate when these discussions moved to London and was thus a member of the 'The Group' . He taught at the University At Buffalo in 1961/2, and was Gregory Fellow at the University Of Leeds from 1962 to 1965.

He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal For Poetry in 1996.


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).

  • The Sermon: A Prose-Poem (1966)

  • New Poems 1967 (1968) editor with John Fuller , Harold Pinter

  • Penguin Modern Poets 11 (1968) with D. M. Black and D. M. Thomas

  • Peter Redgrove's work in progress 1968. Introduced by D. M. Thomas (1969)

  • The Old White Man: A Poem Adapted from a Chinese Tang Dynasty Story (1968?)

  • The Mother, the Daughter, and the Sighing Bridge (1970)

  • The Shirt, the Skull & the Grape (1970)

  • Lover Hating Lover. (1970). Broadside.

  • The Bedside Clock. (1971) Sycamore Broadsheet 15.

  • Love's Journeys (1971) poems

  • Doctor Faust's Sea-Spiral Spirit & 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 & Other Plays (1977).

  • 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)