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Peter Philpott

Peter Philpott

Biography

Born 1949, Martock, Somerset, later moving to Minehead, Somerset, educated at University of Keele, subsequently resident in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, almost programatically midway between Cambridge & London. Occupation: teaching English, then Media, at a local FE College (also film at University of Westminster). Married, two children etc etc. Ran Great Works Editions, producing a magazine, books & pamphlets, initially with Bill Symondson, through 1970s to beginning of the 1980s; performed as part of The Playground late mid 1980s; revived Great Works as a website 2001.

www.greatworks.org.uk

Recordings

Highbury, North London, 2005

This recording was made on 20 August 2005, at Drew Milne's flat in Highbury, north London. Peter read mainly from two sequences: Are We Not Drawn... (unpublished), and An Encounter Upon the Beach of Minehead With the Prince of This World (published in Textual Possessions, and in most recent issues of Angel Exhaust). The former is an exercise in decentering the voice; the latter in narrative and how not to do it.

Bibliography

  • The Bishops Stortford Variations (Great Works Editions, 1976)
  • What Was Shown (Ferry Press, 1980)
  • Some Action Upon The World (Grosseteste, 1982)
  • contributor to ed. Andrew Crozier & Tim Longville, A Various Art (Carcanet, 1987)
  • Textual Possessions: Three Sequences (Shearsman Press, 2004).

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