Selected poems

SELECTED POEMS
By Peter Redgrove
Titles like ‘young woman with the hair of witches and no modesty and ‘The first Earth quake’ , the first time of which is ; ‘the birds squabbled and fell silent in their million trees like colleges of monks with their mean little ways and their beautiful song’. Wonderful images leap from the pages of this selection of works from ‘The collector’ 1959 to ‘assembling a ghost’ 1996. We can fully appreciate the elements of Red grove’s alchemy – the erotic change and sensuous vibrancy of his language, his wry and cordial humor, the strange, thrilling narratives and the constant clarity and freshness of the observing eye.