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

July 4, 2025Documentary0h 40m

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.

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