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Collected Poems: Poems 1970-1984
Peter Reading
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Description for Collected Poems: Poems 1970-1984
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 144 x 22. Weight in Grams: 484. Poems, 1970-84. 352 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DCF. Dimension: 215 x 144 x 22. Weight: 486.
Peter Reading was one of the most original and controversial British poets of the post-war period: angry, uncompromising, gruesomely ironic, hilarious and heartbreaking – as funny as he was disconcerting. He was a prodigiously skilful and technically inventive poet, 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, phony media flimflam, political ineptness and cultural impoverishment. Each of his collections is self-contained, as carefully constructed and plotted as a novel, interweaving voices and narrative strands which can now be seen to ... Read more
Peter Reading was one of the most original and controversial British poets of the post-war period: angry, uncompromising, gruesomely ironic, hilarious and heartbreaking – as funny as he was disconcerting. He was a prodigiously skilful and technically inventive poet, 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, phony media flimflam, political ineptness and cultural impoverishment. Each of his collections is self-contained, as carefully constructed and plotted as a novel, interweaving voices and narrative strands which can now be seen to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852243210
SKU
V9781852243210
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99-15
About Peter Reading
Peter Reading (1946-2011) was born in Liverpool. After studying painting at Liverpool College of Art, he worked as a schoolteacher in Liverpool (1967-68) and at Liverpool College of Art, where he taught Art History (1968-70). He then worked for 22 years as a weighbridge operator at an animal feedmill in Shropshire, a job which left him free to think, until ... Read more
Reviews for Collected Poems: Poems 1970-1984
Reading has spent 25 years creating a body of work which vindicates Tom Paulin’s description of him as “the unofficial laureate of a decaying England”… Now that his entire corpus, astonishing in its range and integrity, is available, it is hard to see how Reading’s role has for so long been under-recognised…Reading has completed a quarter-century masterpiece which has successfully ... Read more