Selected Poems
  • Published: 15 October 1999
  • ISBN: 9780224060158
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $32.99

Selected Poems

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A selection of the finest works by a prize-winning British poet.

'Redgrove's language can light up the page' - Angela Carter

From the 1950s onwards Peter Redgrove wrote poems of imagination and power; this volume is a distillation of his work from The Collector (1959) to Assembling a Ghost (1996), enabling the reader to appreciate the elements of his alchemy.
  • Published: 15 October 1999
  • ISBN: 9780224060158
  • Imprint: Jonathan Cape
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $32.99
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About the author

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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Praise for Selected Poems

Redgrove's language can light up the page.

Angela Carter

Redgrove is thunderously, exhilaratingly good.

Adam Thorpe

He is recognised today as one of the few poets capable of sustained rapture, a heirophant of alchemical mysteries, chronicler of sexual ecstasies, witness to sensual, synaesthetic delights beyond the reach of most of us.

Gerard Woodward

Redgrove's strengths are a clairvoyant creativity, glittering images and glittering risk...wonderful imaginative leaps of seeing, glancing epiphanies...or sustained surrealities which etch the surprisingness of the world.

Ruth Padel

I would use the old-fashioned term "genius" of Redgrove.

Anthony Thwaite