Born in 1925, Peggy was one of five children,  brought up on farm in Kent  near Canterbury. She won an exhibition to Benenden School  Kent, 1937, matriculated 1941, serving in W R N S 1943-1946 and married in 1949 to Reg Poole OBE   (Sec Liverpool LC S S, now  LC V S, 1952 – 1980) and went on to have 3 daughters. 

A regular contributor to Writers News and home study tutor, Peggy also ran poetry courses at Swanwick Summer School 1997. She edited First Heard (poems broadcast on the programmes sold in aid of Children in Need) : Perceptions (celebration of women’s poetry in Poetry Monthly),  Poet’s England Cumbria (Headland)  Marigolds Grow Wild on Platforms Cassell  1996 (an acclaimed anthology of railway poems).

She is an Honorary member of Liverpool Dead Good Poets, member of Poetry Society and Ver Poets (St Albans) and SWWJ (Society for Women Writers and Journalists).