Poetry Book Society Recommendation His harsh, violent verses have come to terms with life in contemporary Britain in the front line. They are clever, witty, inventive, slangy, funny and serious.You come looking for a poet, and he does not disappoint . — The Times. For twenty-five years Peter Reading has been one of Britain s most original and controversial poets: angry, uncompromising, gruesomely ironic, hilarious and heart-breaking — as funny as he is disconcerting. He is probably the most skillful and technically inventive poet writing today, mixing the matter and speech of the gutter with highly sophisticated metrical and syllabic patterns to produce scathing and grotesque accounts of lives blighted by greed, meanness, ignorance, political ineptness, and cultural impoverishment.Peter Reading was an English poet and the author of 26 collections of poetry. He is known for his choice of ugly subject matter, and use of classical metres. WikipediaBorn: July 27, 1946, Liverpool, United KingdomDied: November 17, 2011
Peter Reading: Collected Poems 1: POEMS 1970-1984
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Additional Information
| Author | Reading, Peter |
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| Number of pages | 317 |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books, UK |
| Year Published | 1996 |
| Book Condition | As new. |
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| Binding Type | Softcover |
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