Frank Redpath (1927–1990) was a
Hull poet. He taught at
Hull College of Further Education
Hull College is a Further Education and Higher Education establishment based in Kingston upon Hull, England.
It provides vocational courses, apprenticeships, Higher Education and adult learning courses, with a focus on equipping young peopl ...
, after a period writing for children's comics (including ''
School Friend
''School Friend'' was the name of two different British weekly publications marketed toward girls, both of which were pioneering in their respective categories. The first ''School Friend'', published from 1919 to 1929, was the first story paper ...
'') in London. He features in Douglas Dunn's 1982 anthology of Hull poets ''A Rumoured City'', alongside Sean O’Brien, Douglas Houston and
Peter Didsbury. Fellow Hull poet
Philip Larkin
Philip Arthur Larkin (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist, and librarian. His first book of poetry, '' The North Ship'', was published in 1945, followed by two novels, '' Jill'' (1946) and '' A Girl in Winter'' (1 ...
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."
Redpath forms the subject of Sean O’Brien's elegy "To the Unknown God of Hull and Holderness". His collections are ''To the Village and Other Poems'' (Sonus Press, 1986) and ''How It Turned Out: Selected Poems'' (Rialto, 1996).
In 2015 his poem "In and Out" was published in the ''Times Literary Supplement'', mistakenly presented as a newly discovered poem by Philip Larkin, a mistake that resulted in Redpath trending on Twitter.
Lines from a poem of Redpath's are inscribed on a statue off Great Union Street in the Drypool district of East Hull. The statue sits on the site of St Peter's church, which was destroyed by enemy action in 1941,
and Redpath's poem is in the voice of the apostle
Simon Peter
) (Simeon, Simon)
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Bethsaida, Gaulanitis, Syria, Roman Empire
, death_date = Between AD 64–68
, death_place = probably Vatican Hill, Rome, Italia, Roman Empire
, parents = John (or Jonah; Jona)
, occupatio ...
.
References
Sources
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External links
Michael Caines on Frank RedpathSean O’Brien on Frank Redpath
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1927 births
1990 deaths
Writers from Kingston upon Hull
20th-century English poets