M. R. Peacocke

English poet

M. R. Peacocke
Born	Margaret R. Bennett 1930 Reading, Berkshire
Nationality	English
Occupation	English poet

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

Life

Peacocke was born Margaret Ruth Bennett in Reading, Berkshire to Joan Esther, née Spink (1901–1983) and (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

Cholmondeley Award 2005

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

^ Sleeman, Elizabeth, ed. (2003). International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis. p. 257. ISBN 978-1-85743-178-0.
^ "Richard Rodney Bennett, British Composer, Dies at 76". New York Times. 30 December 2012.
^ Venn, Edward (7 January 2016). "Bennett, Sir Richard Rodney (1936–2012), composer". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/105846. Retrieved 6 December 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "M. R. Peacocke, Poet". Retrieved 15 January 2015.