Peter William Redgrove was born on Jan 2,1932 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England. He was an English poet, novelist, and playwright, known for his exuberant depictions of the natural world and a penchant for verbal pyrotechnics. Redgrove studied natural science at Queens’ College Cambridge and went on to become a scientific journalist in the late 1950s.

In 1959, he was published his first book of poems. Redgrove came fully into his own in his fourth volume of poems, The Force, and Other Poems (1966), He was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1996. As well as in Dr. Faust’s Sea-Spiral Spirit, and Other Poems (1972). These books underscore his fascination with the effects of alcohol in particular, but water, menstrual blood, and mud all receive ecstatic treatment. One of Redgrove’s most memorable poems in these volumes is “The Idea of Entropy at Maenporth Beach” (1972). In later life Redgrove suffered from Parkinson disease and other physical ailments. He died on 16 June 2003.