Collected Poems: 2: Poems 1985-1996

by Peter Reading

Peter Reading was one of Britain's most original and controversial poets: angry, uncompromising, gruesomely ironic, hilarious and heartbreaking - as funny as he was disconcerting. Over four decades he became our most 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852243570
• ISBN13: 9781852243579
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"