War poet comes to Northwich Library (From Northwich Guardian)

War poet comes to Northwich Library

5:20pm Tuesday 16th March 2010 in News

AN evening of poetry with Peter Street is being held in Northwich Library tomorrow, Wednesday.

Peter Street has defied decades of hardship and disability to become a war poet and BBC writer-in-residence, with four volumes of verse to his name.

Born in Wigan in 1948, he left school at 15 and embarked on an employment odyssey, doing jobs that included gravedigger, exhumer, slaughterhouse worker, baker, gardener, and tree surgeon.

In 1982, he sustained a spinal injury that disabled him, but led to his reinvention as a poet.

Since then, he's led a roller coaster literary life - as a war poet in Croatia in 1993, writer-in-residence for BBC Greater Manchester Radio, and co-architect of a 1998 Poetry Society project to take performance poetry into fish and chip shops.

The performance starts at 7.30pm and will be introduced by local poet Angela Topping, who has published three solo collections.

Tickets, priced £4, are available from Nick Hughes in the DAN Office in Northwich Library on 01606 41597 or danarts.org