21st-Century Poets - Adrienne Rich, Pete Doherty, Alice Fulton, Kay Ryan, P. K. Page, Heather McHugh, Edouard Glissant, Rita Dove, Marilyn (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 22. Chapters: Adrienne Rich, Pete Doherty, Alice Fulton, Kay Ryan, P. K. Page, Heather McHugh, Edouard Glissant, Rita Dove, Marilyn Hacker, Mark Doty, Frieda Hughes. Excerpt: Peter Doherty (born 12 March 1979) is an English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist. He is best known musically for being co-frontman of The Libertines, which he reformed with Carl Barat in 2010. His other musical project is indie band Babyshambles. In 2005, Doherty became prominent in tabloids, the news media, and pop culture blogs because of his romantic relationship with model Kate Moss and his frequently-publicised drug addictions. Peter Doherty was born in Hexham, Northumberland, England, the son of Jacqueline (nee Michels), who is of paternal Jewish Russian descent and Peter John Doherty, who is of Irish descent. He had a Catholic upbringing and grew up at a number of army garrisons, due to his father's work as an officer in the British Army, living at various times at garrisons in Catterick, Belfast, Wildenrath Barracks in the north west of Germany (right behind Peter Slater's house in Krefeld), Bedworth, Dorset and Larnaca, along with his mother, a nurse, and two sisters, Amy Jo and Emily. Doherty was the second of the three children. He achieved 11 GCSEs, 7 of which were A* grades, at Nicholas Chamberlaine Comprehensive School in Bedworth and four passes at A Level, two at grade A. At the age of 16, he won a poetry competition and embarked on a tour of Russia organised by the British Council. After his A-levels, he moved to his grandmother's flat in London - where he said he felt 'destined' to be-and got a job filling graves in Willesden Cemetery, although most of his time was spent reading and writing while sitting on gravestones. In a clip later made famous by YouTube, an eighteen-year old Doherty can be seen in an interview with MTV, ...