The moment of conception (and his own in particular) is a mytheme to which Redgrove’s poetry frequently circles back. His penultimate posthumous collection, A Speaker For the Silver Goddess, features one of these in “Mystery Tale”:
Within the mother
and the child
of awesome parents
Like possibilities unplumbed; She told me
the vision she attended as I was conceived –
it was a feeling
That was all fragrance that was
a lion with wings beating
the world’s trade winds.
Born in Kingston-upon-Thames in Surrey, England, Redgrove was the first of two sons. His …
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Citation: Martiny, Erik. "Peter Redgrove". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 April 2006 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3727, accessed 25 November 2024.]
