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 life. Peter Reading is probably the most
skilful 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, phoney media
flimflam, political ineptness and cultural impoverishment.
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