The Harper - Redgrove, Peter

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Résumé :
Peter Redgrove, who died in June 2003, was a friend and contemporary of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath and became one of the most celebrated and prolific post-war poets - regarded by many as a true visionary.

Biographie:
Peter Redgrove (1932-2003) lived in Cornwall from the mid-1960s. One of the most consistently remarkable English poets of the post-war period, he was the author of over thirty verse collections and ten works of fiction, as well as plays and works of non-fiction. His collections include Selected Poems (Cape, London, 1999), and From the Virgil Caverns (Cape, 2002). The posthumous collections Sheen (Stride) and The Harper (Cape), were further evidence that his craft had not diminished with age. A Collected Poems appeared from Cape in 2011....

Sommaire:
Peter Redgrove who died in June 2003 was a friend and contemporary of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath and became one of the most celebrated and prolific post-war poets - regarded by many as a true visionary. The Harper which gathers together his last poems is a collection still charged with characteristic energy eroticism and transforming imagination. Redgrove's language thrills with thunder rain and electricity the air heavy with perfumes and balsams wasps and spiders - and reading these poems is uncannily like re-entering a dream. Peter Redgrove made us look at our world with fresh eyes and he changed our perception forever....