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“... In the first chapter of Peter Redgrove’s novel we are introduced to a poet named Guy, who is about to read aloud some poems he has written about bees. He breaks off a meandering introduction to tell his audience: I can see you saying, ‘Why doesn’t he keep to the point?’ But not keeping to it, is the point ...”

“... They look so beautiful, that’s how they look – but none of them has been into a book. For Peter Redgrove, England is a country more meteorologically extreme and spiritually energised than his grey-faced poetic contemporaries will admit – an abroad on our own doorstep. The Apple-Broadcast begins in his favourite weather, a ...”

“... then I think he has managed rather too well. Solipsism of a very different kind is exhibited by Peter Redgrove in The Facilitators, or Mister Hole-in-the-Day, a psychic parable operating on the very near shores of what the author describes and clearly experiences as magic. It is a magic which has its roots in Jungian dreams and symbols but which ...”

“... sings with an oblique and cutting candour, a tubular coolness we must praise and praise again. Peter Levi, alas, is one of those dwindling, disinterested Arnoldians who can still be uncovered in the home of lost causes. Last year he became Professor of Poetry at Oxford and in his inaugural lecture announced: ‘Today is the feast of Crispinus and ...”

“... The sun scorched her and the rain wetted her’), the princess lends support to the findings of Peter Redgrove and Penelope Shuttle, who in The Wise Wound indicate the frequent occurrence of both these qualities at the time of the menarche. Another spindle, another pricked finger, in ‘Mother Holle’, send a girl jumping down a well to discover the ...”

“... all become too ugly, too personal. Weather can no longer be mentioned in polite society. As Peter Redgrove points out in his provocative study, The Black Goddess and the Sixth Sense, we are ‘so violently affected by weather change ... that it can easily become a clinical problem’. Redgrove confesses himself a ...”

“... subjects the most everyday things and activities to a leery scrutiny. But, like his mentor Peter Redgrove (whose stylistic influence is still too apparent at times), he practises an anthropology from within, participating wholeheartedly in the mysterious rites he records, mingling strangeness and familiarity. In ‘The Coming of Gas’, a domestic ...”

“... beautiful cover illustration for The Wise Wound, the study of menstruation by Penelope Shuttle and Peter Redgrove (translated into German in 1980), shows the Grail chalice within a womb. In Syberberg’s film Amfortas’s wound is both internal and external, as in dream-logic: his tunic is bloodied at groin-level, but the wound is also carried about on a ...”

“... the story that far: ‘The long beautiful saga has not come to anything,’ Hughes lamented to Peter Redgrove, and to another correspondent, he wrote: ‘So I have this depressing collection of poems about a crow.’ But the book, if an aborted mythical comedy, is paradoxically full of the vitality that should have carried it through to its happy ...”