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Peter Carpenter
Peter Carpenter is a freelance writer, tutor and publisher. He has worked in schools as Head of English and Director of Teaching and Learning, and for many universities, including Oxford, Cambridge and Exeter. He was a visiting fellow at Warwick University for the Writing Programme, has tutored for many Arts organisations, including the Royal Academy, and has worked and read at Aldeburgh, Ledbury and many other festivals.
Peter is currently hosting a number of workshops for Elemental Poetry Cambridge, the aim is to encourage anyone with a connection to Cambridge to write poems and prose poems about the elements of our world.
Photography by Rii Schoer
upcoming
Events
5 June 2026
Ilminster Festival
The next Ilminster Literary Festival, celebrating its 10th Anniversary, Join me on Friday 5th June 2026.
2 December 2026
EM Forster Theatre, Tonbridge
Join me in December as I walk you through ‘Bowieland’, a journey through the places that are most significant in the artist’s life.
More events
coming soon…
Read | Listen
In Press
BBC Sounds
With Robert Elms
Paul Ross, Talk Sport
Book of the week for Talk Sport!
Personal Landscape
Podcast with Ryan Murdock
Telegraph
Article by Peter Carpenter
Big Issue Articles
Article by Peter Carpenter
Shiney New Books
Review by Annabel
Pocketmags
Article by Peter Carpenter
Talk radio
Interview with
The Times Literary Supplement
‘A ripping read. What a ghost story! With life-affirming tread, Peter Carpenter tracks down fugitive selves, memory phantoms, through places lesser surveyors thought had vanished for ever, in quest of his bright trickster angel, the many named and multi-masked David Bowie. Here is a fugue of resistance and recovery, by way of gossip, anecdote, chance meeting. And a renewed sense of the undying mystery of things. Fabulous rewards for the blisters, dead ends and the enduring persistence in folly.’
– Iain Sinclair, author of London Orbital
‘Bowieland is living archaeology. By following the suburban songlines of Bowie’s life, and his own, Carpenter takes us on a joyful and fascinating journey which anchors Bowie’s genius in the pavements and lost monuments of our changing world. It’s a pilgrimage full of surprising connections, mesmerising detail, and a passionate desire to discover the unexpected in the midst of our collective memories.’
– Kevin Loader, producer of The Buddha of Suburbia
“always original and enjoyable poems…there’s something modestly dazzling about Peter Carpenter’s writing, but also something wonderfully spare and taut… it reminds me in places of the modern pastorals of R.F. Langley… the tone jinks and darts from the tender to the sardonic, the wry to the comic.”
– CJ Allen, Staple
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