Peter Redgrove

English poet, novelist, and playwright
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Also known as: Peter William Redgrove
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In full:
Peter William Redgrove
Born:
Jan. 2, 1932, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, Eng.
Died:
June 16, 2003, Falmouth, Cornwall (aged 71)

Peter Redgrove (born Jan. 2, 1932, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, Eng.—died June 16, 2003, Falmouth, Cornwall) was an English poet, novelist, and playwright, known for his exuberant depictions of the natural world and a penchant for verbal pyrotechnics. Redgrove studied natural science at Queens’ College Cambridge and went on to become a scientific journalist in the late 1950s, an experience that would, decades later, inspire The Laborators (1993). But by 1959, when he published his first book of poems, he had begun to lose interest in that pursuit, preferring to explore scientific data through the medium of poetry, in the spirit of ...(100 of 407 words)