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An author and
painter, Peter Foss has fifteen books to his name, the latest
being a Bibliography of the writer Llewelyn Powys (published
by The British Library in 2007). Peter was a teacher in the 1970s,
returning to University to study for a PhD, and then taking up editing
as a profession in Wales. He is most widely known for his work on the
Battle of Bosworth which was instrumental in securing a £1.7 million
Heritage Lottery grant for the Battlefields Trust to conduct an
archaeological survey on the famous battlefield in Leicestershire. He
is well-known as the expert on the subject.
Peter moved to
Gloucester in 1993, having visited friends many times in the city. The
fact that Gloucester is a small and ancient city, centrally located
with good links to Wales and other parts of England where Peter
pursues his interests, appealed to him, as does the climate and the
beautiful countryside. Gloucester reminds him of the Leicester of his
childhood, about which he is currently writing a novel set in Roman
times.
One of his high
points whilst living in Gloucester was his commission to write a play
of Alan Garner's novel "Red Shift" for the Gloucester youth drama
group, 'Dig in the Ribs', based at the Guildhall. The play was
performed at the Cheltenham Literature Festival and had a very
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News of Peter Foss
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Peter was the guru in the background in a BBC Midlands TV
magazine programme called 'Inside Out' (on the Battle of Bosworth that
went out on 8 March). Snippets of him from 1986 and a recent interview
he gave to camera in Gloucester were intersected with an update of the
new Heritage Lottery-funded findings at Bosworth, which are proving
Peter's original hypothesis, published twenty years ago, to be right.
The film is also part of the display which features Peter, at the
ever-popular Bosworth Battlefield Visitor Centre, Leicestershire. (His
book on Bosworth was described in a 2005 report as 'a milestone in the
study of pre-industrial battles in Britain')
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Peter's article on Alan Garner, 'The Undefined Boundary:
Converging Worlds in the Early Novels of Alan Garner' (first published
in The New Welsh Review No. 8, Spring 1990) has been reprinted in the
Gale Cengage 400-page publication, Children's Literature Review Volume
130 (editor: Tom Burns), in the US.
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Peter's poem 'Remembering Huffstickler' (already
published in America) is to appear in the forthcoming issue of Other
Poetry, edited from Durham by Michael Standen et al. The poem provides
glimpses of a poet-hobo of Austin, Texas, who died in 2002.
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Peter is currently working on the first draft of a novel
set in Romano-British times (1st century AD), in the territory of the
Corieltauvi (a Celtic tribe) of Lincolnshire-Leicestershire.
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