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