Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street (2025)

"Slaughterman. Gravedigger. War Poet."

Overview

Born in 1948, Peter Street struggled at school with epilepsy and illiteracy in Bolton, Lancashire, and, later in life, as a slaughterman, a gravedigger and a war poet. At 66 years old he was then diagnosed with autism, and his world changed forever.