Peter Street

Peter Street was born in England 1948, and lives in Wigan. He left school epileptic and barely able to read and write. To date has had three collections of poetry behind him: Out Of The Fire (Spike Books, 1993) (a Forward Nomination), Still Standing (TowPath Press, 1998), Trees Will Be Trees (Shoestring Press, 2001). In 2006 Peter was commissioned to write poetry for a Tony Bevan Catalogue, a way in, to Tony’s paintings. His poetry has also been seen on television in Germany, Holland and here in England on both ITV and BBC. His New and Selected Poems, Thumbing from Lipik to Pakrac, was published by Waterloo Press in 2008. His latest publications are Rite of Passage – A Gravedigger’s Memoir and A Kind of Village, both published by Natterjack Press (2015), Hidden Depths: The life and loves of a young grave digger (Preeta Press, 2018), Earth Talk (Caparison, 2020). He was recently the subject of a film, Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street (Serious Feather, 2025). He lives and works in Atherton, Lancashire.