Peter Dent

Peter Dent (born 9 May 1938) is an English editor, poet, and former school teacher whose poetry has moved from spare notations to linguistic experiments.

After serving in the Signals section of the RAF between 1957 and 9, he worked in offices and a library before training as a primary school teacher at Reading University.

[1] Dent's poetry began as spare notations in which time, place and emotion form a unified whole, which identified him with the writers of Agenda magazine.

The texts breach categories of inside and outside, public and private, control and freedom – thus questioning, reviewing and re-presenting the nature of the boundaries.

"[3] Dent's writing has earned him a place in anthologies of those standing outside the mainstream poetic tradition in both the UK[4] and the USA.