Peter Redgrove: The Colour of Radio — Essays and Interviews Click on the covers for more information.
Edited
by Neil Roberts.
Published 2006. Paperback, 263pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £12.50
/ $20
ISBN 9781905024155. Published by Stride, distributed worldwide by Shearsman
Books.
Peter Redgrove was not only a prolific poet but an indefatigable writer of prose, both imaginative and discursive, He was also an extremely responsive and articulate interviewee. His imaginative prose is fully represented in the other volumes of the 'Peter Redgrove Library': in this collection of essays and interviews are pieces that reflect on his childhood, education and marriages; on his own poetry and the writing of others who were especially important to him; and on his passionate involvement with science and religion, and his attempt to forge a world-view that integrated the two.
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Peter Redgrove: In the Country of the Skin
Introduced by Pascale Petit.
Published 2006. Paperback, 149pp,
8.5x5.5ins, £10
/ $20
ISBN 9781905024087. Published by Stride, distributed worldwide by Shearsman Books.
This novel is a true story. There are two men in one man, held together by their mutual skin. Their embattled state is healed by the one energy called magick, love, sex, perversion, justice, cruelty, god, poetry, atomic hydrogen, celestial holography, and by the lady who leaves him with a picture of herself that the author must keep in good repair. His orders are that, apart from herself, the only thing constant is change, and he testifies that 'my pen, albeit it stinks of ignorance, faithfully speaks of deeds, some of which I have heard of, but most of which I have seen with my own eyes, and felt with my own skin.'
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Peter Redgrove & Penelope Shuttle: The Terrors of Dr Treviles
Introduced
by Brian Louis Pearce.
Published
2006. Paperback, 170pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £10 / $20
ISBN 9781905024096. Published by Stride, distributed worldwide by Shearsman Books.
The Terrors of Dr Treviles is the story of a vocation and a quest. The hero, Gregory Treviles, is a doctor whose healing gift is a terrifying and vivid imagination. His quest is to explore wherever his images lead and to discover in so doing the real use of these bizarre energies; the question he asks himself is "And whom does this Grail serve?" His quest becomes entwined with the lives of his brilliant red-headed stepdaughter Robyn, a molecular biologist who is also a witch; of another doctor, Brid Hare, who hides a secret she believes is shameful; and the deathly life of Trevile's deceased wife, Mamie. The energy liberated by Trevile's imagination changes all these lives, and involves a foolish saintly clergyman, Alex Bodkin, and many other creatures, such as blood-magic, slapstick comedy, Laurel and Hardy, Satan, and the University of Cornwall.
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Peter Redgrove & Penelope Shuttle: The Glass Cottage
Introduced
by Penelope Shuttle.
Published
2006. Paperback, 141pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £10 / $20
ISBN 9781905024100. Published by Stride, distributed worldwide by Shearsman Books.
The Glass Cottage is an unusual mystery story that takes the reader into strange byways of emotion, and introduces them to many odd and memorable characters: the mad professor, the widow who talks with Goddess, the perverted ship's doctor, the poet interested in menstruation, the actor, the lover, the immensely freckled psychologist, the ship's spirit, the murdered girl and, not least, the great liner itself, the S.S. Messenger.
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Peter Redgrove: The God of Glass
Introduced
by Jay Ramsay.
Published 2006. Paperback, 123pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £10
/ $20
ISBN 9781905024117. Published by Stride, distributed worldwide by Shearsman Books.
Peter Redgrove wrote this story of horror and the occult in the belief that in going all out for a total experience - in going rather further than such stories normally do - he would draw attention to the real themes that are merely undercurrents in most modern stories of the supernatural. There is a strong factual basis for this remarkable fiction that makes it in no way less entertaining, but considerably more horrifying.
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Peter Redgrove: The Sleep of the Great Hypnotist
Introduced
by Cliff Ashcroft.
Published
2006. Paperback, 129pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £10 / $20
ISBN 9781905024124. Published by Stride, distributed worldwide by Shearsman Books.
In this novel Peter Redgrove explores the fascinating world of the strange powers of the mind revealed by hypnosis. He examines the dilemmas of both hypnotiser and hypnotised, as it might be any parent and any child, and takes some side-swipes at television's power over us all. With his customary mixture of bizarre invention, profound feeling and sexual gusto, he shows how even such an awesome Father can be conquered.
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Peter Redgrove: The Beekeepers
Introduced
by Peter Ackroyd.
Published 2006. Paperback, 129pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £10 / $20
ISBN 9781905024131. Published by Stride, distributed worldwide by Shearsman Books.
The Beekeepers is an investigation of the magic and meaning of imagination. In it Peter Redgrove explores those forces which many consider to be 'occult' but which he believes to be natural forces concealed from our use by convention and timidity.
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Peter Redgrove: The Facilitators
Introduced
by Norman Jope.
Published 2006. Paperback, 132pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £10 / $20
ISBN 9781905024148. Published by Stride, distributed worldwide by Shearsman Books.
In this daring and ebullient novel, Peter Redgrove tells the story of the mysterious Institute of Facilitation, which is haunted by the elusive Director, Jacqueline Dimitrios, MD, who may be the richest woman in the world. She may also be dead, murdered, as her staff often pose as Madame Dimitros, and are instructed to deny they are not Madame. Undaunted by her mystery, three suitors enter the Institute on the pretence that they are patients, and require to be 'facilitated' until they are well again: they are in fact intent on marrying Madame's money. They are told that they must find in themselves a madness so strange that it will make Madame laugh aloud; then and only then will she marry the fortunate suitor.
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