Peter didsbury
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Peter Didsbury is an English
England
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 poet
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 who was born in Fleetwood
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, Lancashire
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 but lived most of his life in Hull
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...

, in the East Riding of Yorkshire
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. There, he has worked as an archaeologist and creative writing
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 tutor.

His works

Didsbury's poetry collections, all published by Bloodaxe Books, are The Butchers of Hull (1982), The Classical Farm (1987), That Old-Time Religion (1994) and A Natural History, incorporated in Scenes from a Long Sleep: New and Collected Poems (2003).

Didsbury appeared in the 1982 Bloodaxe anthology, A Rumoured City, edited by Douglas Dunn and featuring other Hull poets such as Sean O’Brien
Sean O'Brien (writer)
Sean O'Brien is a British poet, critic, playwright. Prizes he has garnered include the Eric Gregory Award , the Somerset Maugham Award , the Cholmondeley Award , the Forward Poetry Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize...

, Douglas Houston and Tony Flynn, as well as its sequel, Carol Rumens' and Ian Gregson's Old City, New Rumours: A Hull Anthology (Five Leaves Press, 2010). He was also associated with the Hull journal Bête Noire. Some critics, however, have seen him as more correctly aligned with the radical poetics of the British Poetry Revival.

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