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Poetry

Poems, spoken as they were meant to be heard

Winner of the Lockwood West Poetry Speaker’s Prize at the UK national Speak-A-Poem competition — presented by Timothy West at the Royal Central School — Peter has read on BBC Radio 4, at the British Library, and as compère and reader in concert halls and churches across the country.

Readings, prizes & performances

  • Lockwood West Poetry Speaker’s Prize — Winner

    Speak-A-Poem UK national poetry speaking competition, presented by Timothy West at the Royal Central School, London. Second Prize, 1999.

    2000

  • Pennies on My Eyes: Poems by Wilfred Owen

    Invited poetry reader at the Two Rivers Press book launch — All Saints Church, Dunsden, where Owen was a lay assistant.

    2018

  • Laurence Binyon, Poet of Two World Wars

    Invited solo reader at the book launch — British Library, London.

    2016

  • WWI Centenary Commemorations

    Leading narrator and poetry speaker — 4th August Vigil Concert and a Wilfred Owen concert, All Saints Church, Dunsden.

    2014

  • Forest Voices

    Poetry reader and compère across 12 concerts — Berkshire & Oxfordshire.

    2001–07

Also: poetry speaker at ‘The Life Cycle’, Coppid Hall (2015); Song, Society and South Hill Park with soprano and piano (2002); wrote and performed a piece on the poetry of Charles Tomlinson at Between Nature, Lancaster University (2000).