Collected Poems - Hardcover

Redgrove, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224090275 ISBN 13: 9780224090278

Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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Review

"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)

Book Description

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0224090275
• ISBN 13: 9780224090278
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 528