Peter Russell (poet)
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Irwin Peter Russell was a British poet
, translator and critic. He spent the first half of his life—apart from war service—based in Kent and London, being the proprietor of a series of bookshops, editing the influential literary magazine Nine and being part of the literary scene. Bankruptcy and divorce led to several years of travel which took him to Berlin
, Venice
, British Columbia
and Iran
, amongst other places. After the Iranian Revolution
he settled permanently in Italy, where he spent the rest of his life. He lived in considerable financial hardship and throughout all he lived a life dedicated to poetry. His work never became mainstream, but it is highly regarded in some circles.
and educated at Malvern College
. During World War II
he served in the Royal Artillery
as an intelligence officer in India
and Burma, he left the army with the rank of major. After the war, he studied English at Queen Mary College, London. He left without taking a degree.
In 1948 Russell set up an "Ezra Pound Circle' which met met once a fortnight in a London pub. Arthur Moore
encouraged him, passing on advice from Pound: "E.P. thinks you might do as he used to half a century ago ... arrange to be at a given eating place at a given hour each week ... It must be cheap enough so anyone can afford it, and at a place where such a gathering would be made comfortable." That summer Russell went to Italy and met Olga Rudge
at Siena
, met Pound's friend John Drummond in Rome
, and visited Rapallo
where he met D. D. Paige who was staying in Pound's old flat engaged in the arduous task of compiling the first selection of Pound's letters.
In 1951 Russell married Marjorie Keeling-Bloxam. Her brother-in-law was Albion Harman, son of the self-proclaimed king of Lundy
, the largest island in the Bristol Channel. In the 1950s Russell often visited Lundy, and enjoyed bird-watching there.
In 1949 Russell founded the literary magazine Nine (named after the Nine Muses) which in its eleven issues published many notable poets including George Barker
, Basil Bunting
, Roy Campbell
, Ronald Duncan
, Paul Eluard
, William Empson
, David Gascoyne
, Robert Graves
, Michael Hamburger
. The following year he started The Pound Press. Russell published work by Pound's friends, An Examination of Ezra Pound (1950), but also the first English translations of Mandelstam
, Pasternak
and Borges. Russell ran the Grosvenor Bookshop in Tunbridge Wells from 1951 to 1959. Both Nine and the Pound Press ceased operation in 1956, and later that year Russell met the young William Cookson
and in 1958 introduced him to Krystyna and Czesław Bednarczyk of The Poets' and Painters' Press and suggested that Cookson found his own journal, which was to be the long-running Agenda
. Russell introduced him to the works of Hugh McDiarmid and Tom Scott
. Cookson saw Agenda as in part a continuation of what Russell had done with Nine. In 1995 Agenda brought out one of its dedicated issues: 'A Tribute to Peter Russell'.
In 1959 the Grosvenor Bookshop went out of business, and he opened the Gallery Bookshop in Soho
, London
. He finally went bankrupt in 1963 and with the collapse of his marriage, he moved to Berlin. In 1965 he relocated to Venice. He had rooms in the Campo de la Bragola.
In the mid 1970s he held a writing fellowship as poet in residence at the University of Victoria
in British Columbia
, where he met his second wife, Lana Sue Long, who was around 30 years his junior. Two daughters, Kathleen and Chris, were born to the couple in 1975 and 1976. After leaving Canada, the family moved to Tehran, where Russell taught and studied at the Imperial Academy of Philosophy. Their third child, a son, Peter George, was born there in 1977. They remained in Iran until the 1979 revolution
, when they returned to Italy, where they lived together under considerable financial hardship. In 1989 Lana returned with the three children to North America, settling in Jackpot, Nevada
, and the couple divorced in the 1990s. Tuscany was Russell's home for the last forty years of his life. In 1983 he moved into an old mill — "La Turbina" — in Pian di Scò
, in the Valdarno
near Arezzo
. Life at the mill was rudimentary, and there was hardly any furniture, although there were thousands of books in a variety of languages, and a supply of whisky and cigarettes. Russell essentially lived in the kitchen, the most habitable and only warm room of the house.
From 1990 her began editing the Marginalia Newsletter, which appeared alternately in English (odd numbered issues) and Italian (even numbered issues). In the early 1990s he began working with his son, now a teenager, on the translations in his bilingual collections of his poems.
In April 2001 serious health problems associated with a gastric ulcer led to three months in hospital, followed by a further three months in a sanatorium for the elderly. Around this time he became effectively completely blind.
Russell translated varied works from several European languages, he also worked in Persian and Arabic; he was the first English translator of Osip Mandelstam
. His close friends included Kathleen Raine
and Leonello Rabatti
. He was a cousin of Bertrand Russell
He died in the hospital at San Giovanni Valdarno
, only 15 minutes or so by car from Pian di Scò.
has described Russell as "a poet of striking contradictions. He is an immensely learned writer with an anti-academic temperament, a Modernist bewitched by classicism, a polyglot rooted in demotic English, an experimentalist in love with strict traditional forms, a natural democrat suspicious of the Left, and a mystic committed to clarity."
English poetry
The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
, translator and critic. He spent the first half of his life—apart from war service—based in Kent and London, being the proprietor of a series of bookshops, editing the influential literary magazine Nine and being part of the literary scene. Bankruptcy and divorce led to several years of travel which took him to Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, Venice
Venice
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, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
and Iran
Iran
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, amongst other places. After the Iranian Revolution
Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution refers to events involving the overthrow of Iran's monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and its replacement with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the...
he settled permanently in Italy, where he spent the rest of his life. He lived in considerable financial hardship and throughout all he lived a life dedicated to poetry. His work never became mainstream, but it is highly regarded in some circles.
Biography
Russell was born in BristolBristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
and educated at Malvern College
Malvern College
Malvern College is a coeducational independent school located on a 250 acre campus near the town centre of Malvern, Worcestershire in England. Founded on 25 January 1865, until 1992, the College was a secondary school for boys aged 13 to 18...
. During World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
he served in the Royal Artillery
Royal Artillery
The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery , is the artillery arm of the British Army. Despite its name, it comprises a number of regiments.-History:...
as an intelligence officer in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and Burma, he left the army with the rank of major. After the war, he studied English at Queen Mary College, London. He left without taking a degree.
In 1948 Russell set up an "Ezra Pound Circle' which met met once a fortnight in a London pub. Arthur Moore
Arthur Moore
Arthur Moore may refer to:* A. Harry Moore , American politician* Arthur A. C. Moore, ice hockey player of the Silver Seven* Arthur Cotton Moore , U.S...
encouraged him, passing on advice from Pound: "E.P. thinks you might do as he used to half a century ago ... arrange to be at a given eating place at a given hour each week ... It must be cheap enough so anyone can afford it, and at a place where such a gathering would be made comfortable." That summer Russell went to Italy and met Olga Rudge
Olga Rudge
Olga Rudge was an American-born concert violinist, now mainly remembered as the long-time mistress of the poet Ezra Pound, by whom she had a daughter, Mary....
at Siena
Siena
Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the province of Siena.The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. It is one of the nation's most visited tourist attractions, with over 163,000 international arrivals in 2008...
, met Pound's friend John Drummond in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, and visited Rapallo
Rapallo
Rapallo is a municipality in the province of Genoa, in Liguria, northern Italy. As of 2007 it counts approximately 34,000 inhabitants, it is part of the Tigullio Gulf and is located in between Portofino and Chiavari....
where he met D. D. Paige who was staying in Pound's old flat engaged in the arduous task of compiling the first selection of Pound's letters.
In 1951 Russell married Marjorie Keeling-Bloxam. Her brother-in-law was Albion Harman, son of the self-proclaimed king of Lundy
Lundy
Lundy is the largest island in the Bristol Channel, lying off the coast of Devon, England, approximately one third of the distance across the channel between England and Wales. It measures about at its widest. Lundy gives its name to a British sea area and is one of the islands of England.As of...
, the largest island in the Bristol Channel. In the 1950s Russell often visited Lundy, and enjoyed bird-watching there.
In 1949 Russell founded the literary magazine Nine (named after the Nine Muses) which in its eleven issues published many notable poets including George Barker
George Barker (poet)
George Granville Barker was an English poet and author.-Life and work:Barker was born in Loughton, near Epping Forest in Essex, England, elder brother of Kit Barker [painter] George Barker was raised by his Irish mother and English father in Battersea, London. He was educated at an L.C.C. school...
, Basil Bunting
Basil Bunting
Basil Cheesman Bunting was a significant British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966. He had a lifelong interest in music that led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of poetry, particularly the importance of reading poetry aloud...
, Roy Campbell
Roy Campbell
Roy Campbell is the name of:* Roy Campbell , South African poet* Roy Campbell, Jr., jazz musician* Colonel Roy Campbell, character in the Metal Gear series of video games...
, Ronald Duncan
Ronald Duncan
Ronald Duncan was a writer, poet and playwright, now best known for preparing the libretto for Benjamin Britten's opera The Rape of Lucretia, first performed in 1946....
, Paul Eluard
Paul Éluard
Paul Éluard, born Eugène Émile Paul Grindel , was a French poet who was one of the founders of the surrealist movement.-Biography:...
, William Empson
William Empson
Sir William Empson was an English literary critic and poet.He was known as "燕卜荪" in Chinese.He was widely influential for his practice of closely reading literary works, fundamental to the New Critics...
, David Gascoyne
David Gascoyne
David Gascoyne was an English poet associated with the Surrealist movement.-Early life and Surrealism:...
, Robert Graves
Robert Graves
Robert von Ranke Graves 24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985 was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works...
, Michael Hamburger
Michael Hamburger
Michael Hamburger OBE was a noted British translator, poet, critic, memoirist, and academic. He was known in particular for his translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn and W. G. Sebald from German, and his work in literary criticism...
. The following year he started The Pound Press. Russell published work by Pound's friends, An Examination of Ezra Pound (1950), but also the first English translations of Mandelstam
Mandelstam
Mandelstam or Mandelshtam is a Russian Jewish surname which may refer to:* Leonid Mandelstam , Russian theoretical physicist** Mandel'shtam , lunar crater named for Leonid Mandelstam...
, Pasternak
Pasternak
Pasternak or Pasternack . Notable people with the last name "Pasternak" include:* Boris Pasternak, poet and writer* Joe Pasternak , Hungarian-US actor...
and Borges. Russell ran the Grosvenor Bookshop in Tunbridge Wells from 1951 to 1959. Both Nine and the Pound Press ceased operation in 1956, and later that year Russell met the young William Cookson
William Cookson
William Cookson was a British poet, writer on poetry and literary editor, best-known for his influential poetry magazine Agenda....
and in 1958 introduced him to Krystyna and Czesław Bednarczyk of The Poets' and Painters' Press and suggested that Cookson found his own journal, which was to be the long-running Agenda
Agenda (poetry journal)
Agenda is a literary journal published in London and founded by William Cookson. Agenda Editions is an imprint of the journal operating as a small press.-History and editorial orientation:...
. Russell introduced him to the works of Hugh McDiarmid and Tom Scott
Tom Scott (poet)
Tom Scott was a Scottish poet, editor, and prose writer. His writing is closely tied to the New Apocalypse, the New Romantics, and the Scottish Renaissance.- Bibliography :...
. Cookson saw Agenda as in part a continuation of what Russell had done with Nine. In 1995 Agenda brought out one of its dedicated issues: 'A Tribute to Peter Russell'.
In 1959 the Grosvenor Bookshop went out of business, and he opened the Gallery Bookshop in Soho
Soho
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable...
, London
London
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. He finally went bankrupt in 1963 and with the collapse of his marriage, he moved to Berlin. In 1965 he relocated to Venice. He had rooms in the Campo de la Bragola.
In the mid 1970s he held a writing fellowship as poet in residence at the University of Victoria
University of Victoria
The University of Victoria, often referred to as UVic, is the second oldest public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It is a research intensive university located in Saanich and Oak Bay, about northeast of downtown Victoria. The University's annual enrollment is about 20,000 students...
in British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
, where he met his second wife, Lana Sue Long, who was around 30 years his junior. Two daughters, Kathleen and Chris, were born to the couple in 1975 and 1976. After leaving Canada, the family moved to Tehran, where Russell taught and studied at the Imperial Academy of Philosophy. Their third child, a son, Peter George, was born there in 1977. They remained in Iran until the 1979 revolution
Iranian Revolution
The Iranian Revolution refers to events involving the overthrow of Iran's monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and its replacement with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the...
, when they returned to Italy, where they lived together under considerable financial hardship. In 1989 Lana returned with the three children to North America, settling in Jackpot, Nevada
Jackpot, Nevada
Jackpot is an unincorporated community in Elko County, Nevada, United States. The Zip Code Tabulation Area for its ZIP code, 89825, had a population of 1,189 as of the 2010 census. Located less than 1 mile from the Idaho border on U.S...
, and the couple divorced in the 1990s. Tuscany was Russell's home for the last forty years of his life. In 1983 he moved into an old mill — "La Turbina" — in Pian di Scò
Pian di Scò
Pian di Scò is a comune in the Province of Arezzo in the Italian region Tuscany, located about 30 km southeast of Florence and about 35 km northwest of Arezzo, in the Valdarno....
, in the Valdarno
Valdarno
The Valdarno is the valley of the river Arno, although it does not apply to the entire basin of the river. The usage of the term generally excludes Casentino and the valleys formed by the major tributaries, such as the Val di Chiana, the Val d'Ambra , The valley of the Sieve, namely Mugello, the...
near Arezzo
Arezzo
Arezzo is a city and comune in Central Italy, capital of the province of the same name, located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about 80 km southeast of Florence, at an elevation of 296 m above sea level. In 2011 the population was about 100,000....
. Life at the mill was rudimentary, and there was hardly any furniture, although there were thousands of books in a variety of languages, and a supply of whisky and cigarettes. Russell essentially lived in the kitchen, the most habitable and only warm room of the house.
From 1990 her began editing the Marginalia Newsletter, which appeared alternately in English (odd numbered issues) and Italian (even numbered issues). In the early 1990s he began working with his son, now a teenager, on the translations in his bilingual collections of his poems.
In April 2001 serious health problems associated with a gastric ulcer led to three months in hospital, followed by a further three months in a sanatorium for the elderly. Around this time he became effectively completely blind.
Russell translated varied works from several European languages, he also worked in Persian and Arabic; he was the first English translator of Osip Mandelstam
Osip Mandelstam
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian poet and essayist who lived in Russia during and after its revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets...
. His close friends included Kathleen Raine
Kathleen Raine
Kathleen Jessie Raine was a British poet, critic, and scholar writing in particular on William Blake, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Taylor. Known for her interest in various forms of spirituality, most prominently Platonism and Neoplatonism, she was a founder member of the Temenos Academy.-Life:Raine was...
and Leonello Rabatti
Leonello Rabatti
Leonello Rabatti is an Italian poet and critic. He lives in Prato and has privately published two volumes of poetry...
. He was a cousin of Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
He died in the hospital at San Giovanni Valdarno
San Giovanni Valdarno
San Giovanni Valdarno is a town and comune in the province of Arezzo, Tuscany, central Italy, located in the valley of the Arno River. It was originally called Castel S. Giovanni....
, only 15 minutes or so by car from Pian di Scò.
Work
Dana GioiaDana Gioia
-Poetry:It was as a poet that Gioia first began to attract widespread attention in the early 1980s, with frequent appearances in The Hudson Review, Poetry, and The New Yorker. In the same period, he published a number of essays and book reviews...
has described Russell as "a poet of striking contradictions. He is an immensely learned writer with an anti-academic temperament, a Modernist bewitched by classicism, a polyglot rooted in demotic English, an experimentalist in love with strict traditional forms, a natural democrat suspicious of the Left, and a mystic committed to clarity."
Poetry
- Picnic to the Moon, The Fortune Press, London, 1944
- Omens and Elegies, Hand and Flower Press, Aldington, 1951
- Descent, (private edition), Tunbridge Wells, 1952
- Three Elegies of Quintilius, The Pound Press, Tunbridge Wells, 1954
- Images of desire, Gallery Bookshop, London, 1962
- Dreamland and Drunkenness, Gallery Bookshop, London, 1963
- Complaints to Circe, London, 1963
- The Spirit and the Body. An Orphic Poem, Keepsake PressKeepsake PressThe Keepsake Press was a private press founded by English writer Roy Lewis. The press published more than 100 books and chapbooks using letterpress techniques. It ceased to operate in 1996 when Lewis died. Its archive is now housed at Reading University...
, London, 1963 - Visions and Ruins, St. Albert's Press, Aylesford, Kent, 1964
- Agamemnon in Hades, St. Albert's Press, Aylesford, Kent, 1965
- The Golden Chain: Lyrical Poems 1964-1969, (private edition) Venice, 1970
- Paysages Légendaires, Enitharmon Press, London, 1971
- The Elegies of Quintilius, Anvil Press, London, 1975 & 1996
- Ephemeron. A Commonplace Book. An Epic Poem, Lafayette, Indiana (U.S.A.), 1977
- Theories, Crescent Moon Press, Teheran (Iran), 1977
- Act of Recognition: Four Visionary Poems, Golgonooza Press, Ipswich, 1978
- Malice Aforethought or the Tumor in the Brain. Epigrammata, University of Salzburg, 1981
- Elemental Discourses, University of Salzburg, 1981
- Africa: A Dream, private edition, Venice, 1981
- All for the Wolves: Selected Poems 1947-1975, Anvil Press Poetry, London, 1984 and Black Swan, Redding Ridge, Connecticut, 1984
- Quintilii Apocalypseos Fragmenta, Agenda Editions, London, 1986
- Teorie e Altre Liriche, Carlo Mancosu Editore, Rome, 1990
- Metameipseis Noerai, or Intellectual Transformations, Agenda Editions, London, 1991
- Pratomagno. Nine Poems, private bilingual edition, translated by Pier Franco Donovan and the author, Pian di Scò, 1992, reprinted 1994
- The Pound Connection in some poems, mainly uncollected or unpublished, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1992
- A Progress of the Soul - Un progresso dell'anima - Five Poems, Pian di Scò, 1992 (private edition) reprinted in 1993 as a bilingual edition translated by Pier Franco Donovan and the author
- Le Poesie di Manuela, private bilingual edition, Pian di Scò, 1992
- Fiddlesticks - Legnetti per il fuoco - Quintilii Apocalypseos Fragmenta, private bilingual edition, translated by Pier Franco Donovan and the author, Pian di Scò, 1992
- The Duller OliveThe Duller OliveThe Duller Olive is a colleciton of poems by Peter Russell. The subtitle of the volume is 'Early poems uncollected or previously unpublished 1942 - 1959.' It was published by the University of Salzburg in 1993...
: Early poems uncollected or previously unpublished 1942-1959, University of Salzburg, 1993 - Nove Poemi/Nine longer poems, private bilingual edition, translated by Pier Franco Donovan and the author, Pian di Scò, 1993
- A False Start: London Poems 1959-1963A False Start London PoemsA False Start: London Poems 1959 - 1963 is a collection of poems by Peter Russell. It was published by the University of Salzburg in 1993....
, University of Salzburg, 1993 - Due Poesie del ritorno - Two Poems of Return, private bilingual edition, translated by Pier Franco Donovan and the author, Pian di Scò, 1993
- Ten Days at Neumarkt, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1993
- Some Poems, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1993
- Sonnet, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1993
- Africa. Un sogno - A dream, private bilingual edition, translated by Peter George Russell and the author, Pian di Scò, 1993
- 50 Gedichte von Peter Russell: zweisprachige Ausgabe. Deutsche Ueberstzungen von Charles Stunzi, private bilingual edition, Pian di Scò, 1994
- Berlin-Tegel 1964: Poems and Translations, University of Salzburg, 1994
- My wild heart - Il mio cuore selvaggio, private bilingual edition, preface by Leonello Rabatti, translated by Pier Franco Donovan and the author, Pian di Scò, 1994-1996
- Venice poems 1965, University of Salzburg, 1995
- Three quests - Tre cerche, private bilingual edition, translated by Peter George Russell & Leonello Rabatti, Pian di Scò, 1995
- More for the wolves, University of Salzburg, 1997
- Omens and elegies - Descent - Visions and ruins - Agamemnon in Hades, University of Salzburg, 1997
- From the apocalypse of Quintilius - Selected and introduced by Glyn Pursglove, University of Salzburg, 1997
- Paysages legéndaires and acts of recognition, University of Salzburg, 1997
- Towards an unknown life - LI Sonnets, Bellowing Ark Press, Seattle, Washington (U.S.A.), 1997
- Language & the spirit in age of Antichrist, Temenos Academy, London, 1997
- My wild heart, University of Salzburg, 1998
- La Catena d'oro - The Golden Chain, bilingual edition, preface by Giuseppe Conte, translated by Peter George Russell, Pier Franco Donovan & the author, Paideia, Firenze, 1998
- Sei poesie recenti - Six recent poems, Edizioni De Filippis, translated by Peter George Russell, Arezzo, 1998
- Considerazioni sul Fragmentum Filippinum 2993 (Quintilii Elegidion e Villa in Tuscis) - Vitam Reddere ad Asses, Edizioni De Filippis, Arezzo, 1998
- Poesie dal Valdarno - Poems, bilingual edition, translated by Peter George Russell, Pier Franco Donovan, Roberto Marchi & the author, preface by Franco Loi, Pietro Chegai Editore, Florence, 1999
- Effetti di luce ed altre poesie - Effects of light, bilingual edition, translated by Peter George Russell & the author, Edizioni Dialogolibri, Como 1999
- Sonnets - A provisional text January-August 1999, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1999
- La sorgente prosciugata - The dried-up spring, bilingual edition translated by Peter Gorge Russell & the author, Edizioni Eva, Venafro (IS), 2000
- Sonetti - Settembre-Ottobre 1998 - Al fumo delle candele, translated by Peter George Russell & the author, Salvatore Sciascia Editore, Caltanissetta-Rome, 2000
- Albae meditatio, poemetto, translated by the author & Pier Franco Donovan, edizioni Noialtri, Messina, 2000
- Sonetti - Autunno 1998, private bilingual edition, translated by Peter George Russell & the author, Pian di Scò, 2000
- Metameipseis Noerai, o delle trasformazioni intellettuali - Metameipseis Noerai, or intellectual transformations, translated by Roberto Marchi, La bottega di poesia Fernando Pessoa, Anno IX, n. 42, Novembre 2001, Sesto San Giovanni (MI),
- Scalare l'Olimpo - Scaling Olympus, bilingual edition, preface by Brandisio Andolfi, translated by Peter George Russell, Pier Franco Donovan & the author Pietro Chegai Editore, Florence, 2001
- A Savannah da nonno Peter, translated by Peter George Russell, Joseph Canzio & the author, Edizioni De Filippis, Arezzo, 2001
- Autumn to autumn (Sonetti 1997-1998), bilingual edition, preface by Enrica Salvaneschi, translated by Peter George Russell & the author, Edizioni Il Foglio, Piombino, 2002
- Long evening shadows - Le lunghe ombre della sera, 16 poesie tradotte da Franca Alaimo, Edizioni Il Foglio, Piombino, 2002
- Living death - Vivere la morte, bilinugal edition, preface and translation by Franca Alaimo, Paideia, Florence, 2002
Prose
- Preliminary notes on the political and economic ideas of Ezra Pound, private edition, London, 1948
- “Elements or ingredients of poetry” and “Imagination”: two addresses on poetry, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1991
- 'Ezra Pound and the cantos' - lecture given at the British Council, Naples, edition private Pian di Scò, 1991
- Vision in the poetry of Ezra Pound or, Ezra Pound and the invisible, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1991
- Ezra Pound, great poet, great friend, conference held at the Petrarch Academy of Arezzo 20 March 1991, private edition, Pian di Scò 1991
- Dante and Islam, private edition, Terranuova Bracciolini, 1991
- Five addresses on poetry, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1991
- Tolkien and the Imagination, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1991
- Kossovo like cosmic symbol - a speech given in occasion of the encounter of October of the union of the writers of the Republic of Serbia, Belgrade 1989, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1991
- The image of woman as a figure of the Spirit, Four lectures given at the Carl Gustav Jung Institute, Zurigo, 1991, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1991, then published in editions of the University of Salzburg, 1992
- Celestial assumption: four conferences on Dante and Islam, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1992
- Dante and Islam - a general introduction, four conferences held in 1991, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1992
- Poetic asides I, University of Salzburg, 1992
- Quiintilii Apocalypseos Fragmenta - Introduction, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1992
- Poetry and meaning - Preamble to a selection of lyrical poems for the Freies Gymnasium, Basel (October 1990), private edition, Pian di Scò, 1992
- Vitalism or abdication, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1992
- The exile - from the United Kingdom - 1st Dantesque International Conference (9-10 October 1992, Poppi, Arezzo), from the title it “In the track of Dante; the exile and the writers of the 1900's”, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1992
- Campagna, verde campagna, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1992
- Avant-propos ad una lettura delle proprie poesie, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1992
- In the tradition - a British writer living in Italy - An address given to Sarah Lawrence University and Richmond College, Florence, March 1991, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1992
- 'New poetry from Italy' - a review of the anthology “New Italian poets” edited by Dana Gioia & Michael Palm (Story Linens Press, Brownsville, U.S.A., 1991), private edition, Pian di Scò, 1992
- Poetic asides II, University of Salzburg, 1993
- Two notes on Caio Gracco, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1993
- Shelley, Plato and Thomas Taylor - a lecture given at the International Bicentenary Conference on Percy Bysshe Shelley at the University of Salzburg (September-October 1992), private edition, Pian di Scò, 1993
- La visione pavesiane del 'Moby Dick' di Melville - conference held in 1993 near the Municipality of Terranuova Bracciolini, private edition, Pian di Scò, 1994
- Something about poetry - Selected lectures and essays by Peter Russell edited by Glyn Pursglove, University of Salzburg, 1997
External links
- Peter Russell site
- History of Agenda
- Letter dated September 2001.
- Peter Russell fonds at University of Victoria, Special Collections
- http://www.sinopiarte.com/P.Russell.html Peter Russell - site Sinopiarte Italy