Peter William Roche

Pete Roche [born 1942 - dead Feb. 2015] was a poet, journalist and songwriter from Liverpool, active with musicians from the UK folk scene. He edited the 1967 anthology, Love, love, love: The new love poetry (Corgi), which included poems by many of the young poets of the era and in 1967-68 wrote for the short-lived girls' fashion magazine Intro. He was a founding member of the poetry and music group Occasional Word Ensemble and contributed record reviews to Cream magazine in the early 1970s. He later co-wrote a number of songs with Trevor Lucas of Fairport Convention. Little is known of his career after 1975.