# The Harper

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- Book: [The Harper](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-redgrove/the-harper) ([The Harper.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-redgrove/the-harper.md))
- Authors: [Peter Redgrove](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-redgrove)
- Publisher: jonathan_cape
- ISBN: 978-02-2407-793-4
- Pages: 80
- Published: 2006-06-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.