M. R. Peacocke

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M. R. Peacocke
Born
Margaret R. Bennett

1930
NationalityEnglish
OccupationEnglish poet

Margaret Ruth Peacocke (born 1930), also known as Meg Peacocke, is an English poet.[1]

Life

Peacocke was born Margaret Ruth Bennett in

(Harry) Rodney Bennett (1890–1948), a children's author and lyricist. She had an elder sister Anne (b.1926) and younger brother, the composer Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012), with whom she collaborated on a number of vocal and choral works, starting in the 1980s.[2][3] She grew up in South Devon and she studied English at St Anne's College, Oxford
.

In 1958, she married Gerald S. P. Peacocke, although they have since divorced.[4] She has four children: Tamsin Peacocke, who has four children; Tully Peacocke; Barnaby Peacocke, who has two children; and Harriet Peacocke, who also has two children.

Awards

Works

  • Marginal Land. Peterloo Poets. 1988. Out of print.
  • Selves. Peterloo Poets. 1995.
  • Speaking of the Dead. Peterloo Poets. 2003. Reprinted 2004, 2005, 2012.
  • In Praise of Aunts. Peterloo Poets. 2011 [2008].
  • Caliban Dancing. Shoestring. 2013 [2012].
  • Finding the Planes - New and Selected. 2015.
  • Broken Ground. 2018.

References

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  2. ^ "Richard Rodney Bennett, British Composer, Dies at 76". New York Times. 30 December 2012.
  3. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/105846. Retrieved 6 December 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  4. ^ "M. R. Peacocke, Poet". Retrieved 15 January 2015.