Peter Redgrove was born in 1932.

He wrote numerous volumes of poetry, the most recent being FROM THE VIRGIL CAVERNS, and several books.

Among the many awards he received were the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Priz Italia and the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

The University of Sheffield holds an archive of his papers.

Peter Redgrove died in June 2003.

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.