Peter Philpott

about Peter Philpott

Born 1949, Martock, Somerset, later moving to Minehead, Somerset, educated at University of Keele, subsequently resident in Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, teaching English and Media at local FE Colleges (also Film at University of Westminster). Married, two children, grandchild, retired etc etc. See also the about Great Works page, or the biographical information on either the Author Biography page on this site, or the more detailed but less current Poetry & Me on modernpoetry.org.uk.

For more information on my poems on this website, visit the Archive page, if you have not already done so.

publications by Peter Philpott

The Bishops Stortford Variations (Great Works Editions, 1976)
What Was Shown (Ferry Press, 1980)
Loot 2 : 3 A Narrative of the Travails of S Whilst He Is in Prison (supplement to Spectacular Diseases, 1981)
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)
To the Union (The Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2010)
Are We Not Drawn . . . (Shearsman, 2009)

opening of To the Union in Anny Ballardini's Poet's Corner
sequence from Are We Not Drawn . . . in Ian Seed's Shadow Train
sequence from Are We Not Drawn . . . in Adam Fieled's P.F.S. Post
sequence from Are We Not Drawn . . . in Andrew Nightingale's Liminal Pleasures
five poems in fragmente: a magazine of contemporary poetics issue 9, 2007
Ballot: "to be harmless and legal . . " in Issue 2: "the reality book of ballots issue" Ed. Stephen McLaughlin & Jim Carpenter
opening of The Book of Air in Jeffrey Side's The Argotist Online
"Karen Mac Cormack's Implexures and the Thin Membrane of Meaning" in in Andy Jordan's 10th Muse 16, 2009
Emily Howard, Mark Cobley and Simon Howard, kaddish: the second part of Plus-que-Parfait, with guest contributions from Richard Barrett, Peter Philpott and Tom Watts
poems from Speculations (section 1 of Ianthe Poems) forthcoming in Andy Jordan's 10th Muse
most of Noting Nothing (section 2 of Ianthe Poems) in edited by Adrian Clarke and William Rowe, Veer-About on Edmund Hardy's Intercapillary Space
Dubbadea (section 3 of Ianthe Poems) forthcoming on Stephen Emmerson's blart