Peter Street's writing evokes the senses. It reverberates with a passion for the touch, taste, colour and feel of life lived in the heat of the moment. His dialogue captures and lays bear the longings, choices and consequences of the ordinary and extraordinary man, woman and child, struggling to survive and make sense of it all. His poetry conveys the seminal moments when things happen that give birth to emotions, which underpin an individual's personality and remain essential to the core through a lifetime.
With an economy of words and a crafted elegance, he tells it like it is. Whether he's reminiscing on the power of childhood friendships, recounting life and death experiences, or expressing the positive and negative effects of disability and impairment. His war poems are a shattering indictment of man's cruelty, in tandem with the ability to adapt to experiences so horrific, it is beyond the imagination to fully comprehend.
There is no veneer. Peter Street's voice is the voice of someone with a width and a depth of experience. He speaks with an understated wisdom that reveals an appetite for the nuts and bolts of life. With humility and a grace he relishes the good things and appreciates what's to be learnt from the bad things. Above all, there is an honesty and an openness, without affectation, that has a universal and a timeless quality.
Peter Street is available for commissions, workshops, residencies and readings. For further information please contact peterstreet@mac.com
Peter is the recipient of an award from The Royal Literary Fund between January 2008 - 2011. This award will allow him to concentrate on writing. He would like to thank Dr. Simon Jenner, Chairman of Survivors Poetry for his support in being awarded this grant.
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