Redgrove, Peter

Redgrove, Peter (1932– ),
British poet and novelist. Though known mainly for his poetry, Redgrove has written several erotic and occult fantasies: The God of Glass (1979), The Sleep of the Great Hypnotist (1979), The Beekeepers (1980), and The Facilitators, or Mister Hole‐in‐the Day (1982). In 1989 he published The One who Set Out to Study Fear, a collection of revised classical fairy tales which have a metaphysical and Jungian flavour to them. Set in contemporary England, the tales address the need for changing sexual and social relations while raising the issue of psychological transformation. In a ‘Job at Holle Park’, a contemporary version of ‘Mother Holle’, the maltreated younger daughter breaks with her mother and sister to become the manager of an amusement park, thereby overcoming the monsters of her past. In ‘The Rose of Leo Mann’, based on ‘[The entire page is 200 words long]

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