Peter Redgrove

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...