Collected Poems: 1: Poems 1970-1984

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: 07/01/1995
ISBN: 9781852243210
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.44w x 0.85d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/03/1996 pg. 73