[1] He taught at Hull College of Further Education, after a period writing for children's comics (including School Friend) in London.
Fellow Hull based poet Philip Larkin contributed a preface to the anthology.
Writing to Redpath, Larkin declared "Yours are the only poems in the book I would have been glad to have written.
"[2] Redpath forms the subject of Sean O’Brien's elegy "To the Unknown God of Hull and Holderness".
[3] Lines from a poem of Redpath's are inscribed on a statue off Great Union Street in the Drypool district of East Hull.