Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street
"Slaughterman. Gravedigger. War Poet."
Synopsis
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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