Peter William Redgrove (2 January 1932 – 16 June 2003) was a British poet, who also wrote prose, novels and plays with his second wife Penelope Shuttle. Life and career Redgrove was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. He was educated at Taunton School, and Queens' College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he edited Delta magazine for several issues, and met the poets Ted Hughes and Harry Guest. He left in 1954 without taking a degree, married the sculptor Barbara Sherlock, and went into copywriting. In Cambridge Redgrove participated in Philip Hobsbaum's poetry discussion group. He continued to participate when these discussions moved to London and was thus a member of 'The Group'. He taught at the University at Buffalo in 1961/2, and was Gregory Fellow at the University of Leeds from 1962 to 1965. He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1996. Redgrove had three children from his first marriage to the sculptor Barbara Redgrove, William, Peter and Katherine. He and his second wife, poet Penelope Shuttle, had a daughter, Zoe. Works Poetry collections At The White Monument (1963), poems Introduced by D. M. Thomas (1969) Broadside. Broadsheet 15. Love's Journeys (1971), poems Doctor Faust's Sea-Spiral Spirit & Other Poems (1972), poems Two Poems (1972) Sons of My Skin: Selected Poems 1954–1974 (1975), edited by Marie Peel From Every Chink of the Ark (1977), poems Skull Event (1977) Ten Poems (1977) The Fortifiers, the Vitrifiers, and the Witches (1977) Happiness (1978), poems The White, Night-Flying Moths Called Souls (1978) New Poetry 5: An Arts Council Anthology (1979), editor with Jon Silkin The Weddings at Nether Powers (1979), poems The First Earthquake (1980) The Apple Broadcast and Other New Poems (1981) The Facilitators, or Mister Hole-in-the–Day (1982) Man Named East and other New Poems (1985) The Explanation of the Two Visions (1985) The Mudlark Poems & Grand Buveur (1986) In the Hall of the Saurians (1987), shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1987 The Moon Disposes: Poems 1954—1987 (1987) The One Who Set Out To Study Fear (1989) Poems 1954–1987 (1989) Dressed as for a Tarot Pack (1990), poems Under the Reservoir (1992), poems The Laborators (1993) Abyssophone (1995) Assembling a Ghost (1996), poems The Book of Wonders: The Best of Peter Redgrove's Poetry (1996), edited by Jeremy Robinson Orchard End (1997), poems Selected Poems (1999) From the Virgil Caverns (2002), poems Sheen (2003) Collected Poems