Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street

2025 • Directed by

Brett Gregory

Documentary

Slaughterman. Gravedigger. War Poet.

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.