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Peter Didsbury reads a selection of poems from his retrospective, SCENES FROM A LONG SLEEP: NEW & COLLECTED POEMS (2003), published by Bloodaxe Books. Born in 1946 in Fleetwood, Lancashire, he moved to Hull at the age of six, read English and Hebrew at Oxford, and taught English in Hull for eight years before turning to the past for employment as well as for inspiration, becoming an archaeologist. Despite working away from the literary limelight as an archaeologist, this ‘secular mystic with the lugubrious tongue’ (Independent on Sunday) has attracted a dedicated readership. The TLS called him the best new poet published by Bloodaxe and ‘one of the most eccentric and unpredictable, of English poetic holymen’. The poems he reads here are: ‘In Britain’, ‘The Drainage’, ‘A Priest in the Sabbath Dawn Addresses His Somnolent Mistress’, ‘A Winter’s Fancy’, ‘A Malediction’ and ‘A Bee’. Neil Astley filmed Peter Didsbury reading his poems at his home in Hull in November 2010. This film is from the DVD-anthology IN PERSON: WORLD POETS, filmed and edited by Pamela Robertson-Pearce and Neil Astley (Bloodaxe Books, 2017). For more details please see bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/scenes-from-a-long-sleep-726
Peter Didsbury reads a selection of poems from his retrospective, SCENES FROM A LONG SLEEP: NEW & COLLECTED POEMS (2003), published by Bloodaxe Books. Born in 1946 in Fleetwood, Lancashire, he moved to Hull at the age of six, read English and Hebrew at Oxford, and taught English in Hull for eight years before turning to the past for employment as well as for inspiration, becoming an archaeologist. Despite working away from the literary limelight as an archaeologist, this ‘secular mystic with the lugubrious tongue’ (Independent on Sunday) has attracted a dedicated readership. The TLS called him the best new poet published by Bloodaxe and ‘one of the most eccentric and unpredictable, of English poetic holymen’. The poems he reads here are: ‘In Britain’, ‘The Drainage’, ‘A Priest in the Sabbath Dawn Addresses His Somnolent Mistress’, ‘A Winter’s Fancy’, ‘A Malediction’ and ‘A Bee’. Neil Astley filmed Peter Didsbury reading his poems at his home in Hull in November 2010. This film is from the DVD-anthology IN PERSON: WORLD POETS, filmed and edited by Pamela Robertson-Pearce and Neil Astley (Bloodaxe Books, 2017). For more details please see bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/scenes-from-a-long-sleep-726
