Peter Reading
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Peter Reading (born Liverpool, 1946) is a prolific English poet. He is known for his choice of ugly subject matter, and use of classical metres[1]. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry describes his verse as strongly anti-romantic, disenchanted and usually satirical[2].
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[edit] Early life
He was educated at Alsop High School and Liverpool College of Art.
[edit] As a poet
His first collection was published in 1974.
Writer in residence at Marfa, Texas, with a Lannan Foundation Award[3][4].
[edit] Awards
- Cholmondeley Award (1978)
- Dylan Thomas Award (1983), for Diplopic
- Whitbread Prize for Poetry (1986), for Stet
- Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, 1990 and 2004.
[edit] Works
- Water and Waste (1970)
- For the Municipality's Elderly (1974)
- The Prison Cell and Barrel Mystery (1976)
- Nothing for Anyone (1977)
- Fiction (1979)
- Tom O'Bedlam's Beauties (1981)
- 5x5x5x5x5 (1983)
- Diplopic (1983)
- C (1984)
- Ukelele Music (1985)
- Going On (1985)
- Essential Reading (1986)
- Stet (1986)
- Final Demands (1988)
- Perduta Gente (1989)
- Shitheads (1990)
- Three in One (1991)
- Evagatory (1992)
- Last Poems (1994)
- Collected Poems Vol 1: 1970-1984 (1995)
- Eschatological (1996)
- Collected Poems Vol 2: 1985-1996 (1996)
- Chinoiserie (1997)
- Work in Regress (1997)
- Apopthegmatic (1999)
- Ob (1999)
- Repetitious (1999)
- Marfan (2000)
- [untitled] (2001)
- Faunal (2002)
- Collected Poems Vol 3: 1997-2003 (2003)
- -273.15 (2005)
[edit] References
- Isabel Martin (2000), Reading Peter Reading
[edit] Notes
- ^ Keith Tuma, Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry (2001), p. 725.
- ^ Entry by Martin Seymour-Smith
- ^ Lannan Foundation - Peter Reading
- ^ http://www.nd.edu/~ndr/issues/ndr12/reviews/peter.html
