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Description for Vendange Tardive
Paperback. Latest collection by leading British poet. Num Pages: 56 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 5. Weight in Grams: 102.
After mapping Britain's national decline over thirty years through 25 books of poetry, Peter Reading reinvented himself as a writer in his 21st-century work. The vitriolic social critic became poetry's Millennial prophet of doom, directing his venom and sorrow at the destruction of the world's wildlife and environment. "Vendange Tardive" is a late harvest of vintage Reading in disaster mode. Here is a rueful crop of valedictory poems in which man reaps what he sows: shipwreck, ruin, death, war, ignomony and extinction. But somehow, amid all that, there is still the fruit of the vine and the bittersweet spirit of ... Read more
After mapping Britain's national decline over thirty years through 25 books of poetry, Peter Reading reinvented himself as a writer in his 21st-century work. The vitriolic social critic became poetry's Millennial prophet of doom, directing his venom and sorrow at the destruction of the world's wildlife and environment. "Vendange Tardive" is a late harvest of vintage Reading in disaster mode. Here is a rueful crop of valedictory poems in which man reaps what he sows: shipwreck, ruin, death, war, ignomony and extinction. But somehow, amid all that, there is still the fruit of the vine and the bittersweet spirit of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
56
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
56
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852248840
SKU
V9781852248840
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Ref
99-70
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 Vendange Tardive
'Anger is a country Peter Reading has been colonising for years - the anger is expressed with classical clarity - Rage against the state of the nation, but also rage against the darkness of death, exile and inability to show love' - Helen Dunmore, Observer. 'Despair, both environmental and political, is never absent; but this is an appreciative, defiantly humane ... Read more