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Faunal

Peter Reading

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Untitled

Peter Reading

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Marfan

Peter Reading

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The Poetry Quartets

Peter Reading; James Fenton; Tony Harrison; Ken Smith

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Peter Reading

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Peter Reading: Collected Poems 1985-1996

Peter Reading

Synopsis:
England's unofficial laureate mixes the matter and speech of the gutter in his angry, why-are-we-here- poems, but he uses meter for the job Peter Reading's poems from twenty-five years and eighteen books have been published in two volumes, the first, Poems 1970-1974, in 1995 - "A poetry of foul moods. But it is also a poetry that insists on angry intelligence over world-weary head-shaking". -- Publishers Weekly. For a poet to be collected like this, at the age of fifty in mid-career, is unusual, but not for Reading -- prolific, distinctive and controversial. His is an epic lament for a species given to cruelty and self-destruction. Generally, rhyme provides the backbone for public poetry. What sets Reading apart is his use of mostly classical dactylic meter, with Latin hexameters, couplets, and older Greek forms.

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Collected Poems: Poems 1985-1996

Peter Reading

Synopsis:
England's unofficial laureate mixes the matter and speech of the gutter in his angry, why-are-we-here- poems, but he uses meter for the job Peter Reading's poems from twenty-five years and eighteen books have been published in two volumes, the first, Poems 1970-1974, in 1995 - "A poetry of foul moods. But it is also a poetry that insists on angry intelligence over world-weary head-shaking". -- Publishers Weekly. For a poet to be collected like this, at the age of fifty in mid-career, is unusual, but not for Reading -- prolific, distinctive and controversial. His is an epic lament for a species given to cruelty and self-destruction. Generally, rhyme provides the backbone for public poetry. What sets Reading apart is his use of mostly classical dactylic meter, with Latin hexameters, couplets, and older Greek forms.

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Work in Regress

Peter Reading

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Collected Poems: Poems 1970-1984

Peter Reading

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Collected Poems 1: Poems 1970-1984

Peter Reading

Synopsis:
Poetry Book Society Recommendation "His harsh, violent verses have come to terms with life in contemporary Britain in the front line. They are clever, witty, inventive, slangy, funny and serious...You come looking for a poet, and he does not disappoint". -- The Times. For twenty-five years Peter Reading has been one of Britain's most original and controversial poets: angry, uncompromising, gruesomely ironic, hilarious and heart-breaking -- as funny as he is disconcerting. He is probably the most skillful 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, political ineptness, and cultural impoverishment.

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Last Poems

Peter Reading

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Ukulele Music Perduta Gente

Peter Reading

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Ukulele Music: Perduta Gente

Peter Reading

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Other editions: Softcover - 1986

Evagatory

Peter Reading

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Stet

Peter Reading

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Essential Reading

Peter Reading; Alan Jenkins

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C: Poems

Peter Reading

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Diplopic

Peter Reading

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Tom O'Bedlam's Beauties

Peter Reading

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Fiction

Peter Reading

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Nothing for Anyone

Peter Reading

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The Prison Cell & Barrel Mystery

Peter Reading

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For the Municipality's Elderly

Peter Reading

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