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Collected Poems: 1 - Poems 1970-1984 (Paperback) Loot Price: R568
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Collected Poems: 1 - Poems 1970-1984 (Paperback): Peter Reading

Collected Poems: 1 - Poems 1970-1984 (Paperback)

Peter Reading

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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 link the 24 books which make up his Collected Poems. This was published in three volumes from Bloodaxe: Poems 1970-1984 (1995), Poems 1985-1996 (1996) and Poems 1997-2003 (2003). He subsequently produced two later collections, -273.15 (2005) and Vendange Tardive (2010). He died in 2011. Volume 1 of his Collected Poems includes an Introduction by Isabel Martin and was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The collections included (in full) are: Water and Waste (1970), For the Municipality's Elderly (1974), The Prison Cell & Barrel Mystery (1976), Nothing For Anyone (1977), Fiction (1979), Tom o' Bedlam's Beauties (1981), Diplopic (1983), 5x5x5x5x5 (1983) and C (1984)

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Imprint: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2023
First published: June 1996
Authors: Peter Reading
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-1-85224-321-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
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LSN: 1-85224-321-X
Barcode: 9781852243210

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