Collected Poems

Overview: 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 26 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. 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. The Best Poems From Twenty-six Volumes Of Verse--from The Collector (1959) To The Three Books Published Posthumously--jacket Flap. I. Early Uncollected Poems (1953-54) -- Ii. The Collector (1960) -- Iii. The Nature Of Cold Weather (1961) -- Iv. At The White Monument (1963) -- V. The Force (1966) -- Vi. Work In Process (1969) -- Vii. Dr. Faust's Sea-spiral Spirit (1972) -- Viii. The Hermaphrodite Album (1973) -- Ix. Sons Of My Skin (1975) -- X. From Every Chink Of The Ark (1977) -- Xi. The Weddings At Nether Powers (1979) -- Xii. The Apple-broadcast (1981) -- Xiii. The Working Of Water (1984) -- Xiv. The Man Named East (1985) -- Xv. The Mudlark Poems & Grand Buveur (1986) -- Xvi. In The Hall Of The Saurians (1987) -- Xvii. The First Earthquake (1989) -- Xviii. Dressed As For A Tarot Pack (1990) -- Xix. Under The Reservoir (1992) -- Xx. The Laborators (1993) -- Xxi. My Father's Torpedoes (1994) -- Xxii. Abyssophone (1995) -- Xxiii. Assembling A Ghost (1996) -- Xxiv. Orchard End (1997) -- Xxv. From The Virgil Caverns (2002) -- Xxvi. Sheen (2003) -- Xxvii. A Speaker For The Silver Goddess (2006) -- Xxvii. The Harper (2006). Peter Redgrove ; Compiled By Neil Roberts.