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Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street

Slaughterman. Gravedigger. War Poet.

40 min |

Documentary |

2025-07-04

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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.

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Peter D. Firth

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