page_title: Peter Dent
section_title: Bibliography
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Dent / Bibliography
caption_attribution_description: English: Budleigh Salterton&#160;: Pebbly Beach &amp; Coastline
context_page_description: Peter Dent is a former school teacher and editor whose poetry has moved from spare notation to linguistic experiment.
context_section_description: Poems 1972-99
  Proxima Centauri (Agenda Editions 4) London, 1972. Edition of 450 numbered copies, ISBN 0-902400-03-7; 50 signed and numbered copies, ISBN 0-902400-04-5.
  The Time Between: poems from the Chinese and others (Hippopotamus Press) Sutton, Surrey, 1974. ISBN 0-904179-05-2; forty copies numbered and signed.
  Surfaces (Interim Press) Egham, Surrey, 1975. ISBN 0-904675-02-5; 150 copies, signed and numbered.
  "Trickle" (Kitzbühel 1972), Mandeville Press card, Hitchin, Herts, 1976.
  Focus Germanus: episodes (OASIS 23) London, 1978. ISBN 0-903375-35-4.
  Desert Psalter (Glasshouse Press) Liverpool, 1980. Illustrations by Ann Paterson; no ISBN.
  Distant Lamps (Hippopotamus Press) Sutton, Surrey, 1980. ISBN 978-0-904179-23-1; 25 copies signed and numbered, ISBN 0-904179-24-9.
  From the Flow (Taxus Press) Durham, 1983. Cover illustration by Alan Halsey. ISBN 1-85019-002-X.
  "Toys", Big Little Poems card, Melton Mowbray, Leics, 1984
  Hours (Blackthorn Press) Budleigh Salterton, Devon, 1985. Enveloped set of 12 cards with illustrations by Dent. Edition of 50; no ISBN.
  Uncloudy Wine: 12 Poems for the guises of the graal (Taxus) Durham, 1987. ISBN 1-85019-027-5
  Midwinter Nights: Four Poems (Oasis Press) London, 1988. Illustrations by Ray Seaford; ISBN 0-903375-79-6.
  Night Winds and Dice: versions and variations (Big Little Poem Books) Grimsby, S.Humberside, 1990. Cover drawing by Laurie Clark; ISBN 0-9514468-1-9.
  Vigil and Dream: A Dark Age Suite (Blackthorn Press) Budleigh Salterton, Devon, 1990. No ISBN.
  Travel Song (Morning Star Folio 2/1) Edinburgh, Scotland, 1991. Folded sheet with paper cuts by Susan Patterson, accompanied by Dent's essay "Handling The Flower: some working thoughts on poetry". 300 copies, including 26 signed and lettered by the artist and poet.
  Suggesting Blue (Single Room 1, Room Press) White Plains NY, USA, 1991. No ISBN.
  Undergrowth (Blackthorn Press) Budleigh Salterton, Devon, 1991. No ISBN.
  Contour and Grain (Blackthorn Press) Budleigh Salterton, Devon, 1991. No ISBN.
  Northwoods (Taxus Press) Exeter, Devon, 1992. ISBN 1-873012-26-8 (p/b); 1-873012-27-6 (h/b).
  Place to Place (Stingy Artist) Weymouth, Dorset, 1993. 140 copies, numbered and signed; no ISBN.
  Equinox (Oasis series 91) London, 1993. Illustrations by Ian Robinson; ISBN 0-903375-87-7.
  Line (Markings 3, Cloud) Newcastle upon Tyne, 1995. Cover illustration by Dent; ISBN 1-899799-03-6.
  Days Out (Trombone Press) Exeter, 1998. No ISBN.
  Breaking Shadows (Juniper Press) La Crosse WI, USA, 1998. 150 copies of a mini-book; no ISBN.
  At the Blue Table (Blackthorn Press) Budleigh Salterton, Devon, 1999. No ISBN.
  Simple Geometry (Oasis Books) London, 1999. ISBN 1-900996-08-1.
  Poetry from 2000
  Settlement (Leafe Press) Nottingham, 2001. ISBN 0-9537634-3-9.
  Unrestricted Moment (Stride) Exeter, Devon, 2002. Cover by Kit Surrey. ISBN 1-900152-76-2.
  Adversaria (Stride) Exeter, Devon, 2004. Cover by Brian Rice. ISBN 1-900152-97-5.
  Handmade Equations: Poems 2000-04 (Shearsman) Exeter, Devon, 2005. Cover illustration by Dent. ISBN 0-907562-65-5.
  Ghost Prophecy, (Kaleidikon), 2011. Cover art by Dent. Edition of 50.
  Dasein and Scarecrow (Offline Press), 2011. Cover art by Dent. Edition of 50.
  Price-Fixing (Kaleidikon), 2011. Cover art by Dent. Edition of 50.
  With Number Plates Disguised (High Tide Editions), 2011. Cover art by Dent. Edition of 50.
  Limit Situations (Smallminded Books), Devoran, 2011. Single folded sheet.
  Repertory (Kaleidikon), 2012. Cover art by Dent. Edition of 50.
  Trickle-Down: 12 unnatural rumours (Treadmill Editions), 2012. Cover art by Dent. Edition of 50.
  Tripping Daylight (Shearsman), Bristol 2012. Cover by Michael Barnard. ISBN 9781848612341.
  Private Utopias (Oystercatcher Press), Old Hunstanton, Norfolk, 2013. Cover art by Peter Hughes. ISBN 978-1-905885-62-6.
  Retrieval Systems (Knives Forks and Spoons Press), Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside, 2014. ISBN 978-1-909443-48-8. Cover art features a sculpture by Ruth Carpenter.
  Badlands of the Real (Red Ceilings Press), New Mills, Derbyshire, 2014. Cover art by Dent. A6 chapbook in an edition of 40.
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caption: The pebble beach at Budleigh Salterton, a site for Dent's earlier meditative poetry
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