{"id":8152,"date":"2025-03-11T10:58:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T10:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=8152"},"modified":"2025-06-12T11:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T10:20:46","slug":"peter-bennet-2","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/peter-bennet-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Bennet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Bennet has published numerous books of poetry, including <em>Sky Riding<\/em> (1984); <em>All The Real<\/em> (1994); and <em>Goblin Lawn: New &amp; Selected Poems<\/em>, which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in Autumn 2005. <em>The Glass Swarm<\/em> (Flambard Press) was the Poetry Book Society Choice in Autumn 2008 and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Since its publication, he has published two retrospectives with Bloodaxe Books: <i>Border<\/i> (2013); and <em>Nayler &amp; Folly Wood <\/em>(2023), which was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. He has received major awards from New Writing North and Arts Council England and been a prizewinner in the National and the Arvon International Poetry Competitions, and in the Basil Bunting Awards. Peter\u00a0lived for thirty-three years near the Wild Hills o\u2019Wanney in Northumberland, in a cottage associated with the ballad writer James Armstrong, author of <i>Wannie Blossoms<\/i>. He now lives in North Shields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Bennet has published numerous books of poetry, including Sky Riding (1984); All The Real (1994); and Goblin Lawn: New &amp; Selected Poems, which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in Autumn 2005. The Glass Swarm (Flambard Press) was the Poetry Book Society Choice in Autumn 2008 and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8072,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-8152","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/8152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}