Peter Wyton is a 'poet

Poet

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 of page and performance' who has published a number of books and who has appeared on BBC Radio

BBC Radio

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. He is a widely published and prize-winning poet who has appeared at venues as diverse as Cheltenham Literature Festival

Cheltenham Literature Festival

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, Glastonbury Festival

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, Ledbury

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 Poetry Festival, Oxford

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 TV, Lewes Prison

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 and arts centres and theatres throughout the United Kingdom

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. His work has appeared on BBC Radio 4

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's Poetry Please

Poetry Please

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and Something Understood

Something Understood

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. He also reached the final of Radio 4's first Poetry Slam.

Early life

At 12, Peter Wyton was financing his collection of Arthur Ransome

Arthur Ransome

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 books on Children's Hour

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, which paid seven shillings and sixpence in book-tokens per broadcast.

Later life

He is published by Tempus Publishing, Stroud, Gloucestershire

Stroud, Gloucestershire

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 and was twice nominated for the Forward Poetry Prize

Forward Poetry Prize

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. He is Gloucestershire

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 1000 Poet Laureate. In 2008 he published Not All Men Are From Mars (A Poetry Book for Women's Aid), a collection of 55 poems centred around women, including a range of themes from violence and discrimination, to individual women of historical importance.

Works

• Future Dances (1997)
• Last of the late developers: The performance poetry of Peter Wyton (1999)
• Even the Beggars have Pearls (2001)
• Dad's Taxi Service: And Other Poems (2004)
• The Ship in the City (2006)
• Not All Men Are From Mars (2008)