The Harper

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.