Collected Poems: 1: Poems 1970-1984

by Peter Reading

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 185224321X
• ISBN13: 9781852243210
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"