Collected Poems: Poems 1985-1996 - Hardcover
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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- PublisherBloodaxe Books Ltd
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- ISBN 13 9781852243562
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Newcastle. Bloodaxe Books Ltd. 1997. Hard Cover. Blue cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Condition of jacket and book is fine/as new. Peter Reading was one of Britain's most original and controversial poets: 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. Each of his collections is self-contained, as carefully constructed and plotted as a novel, interweaving voices and narrative strands which can now be seen to link the 24 books which make up his Collected Poems. This was published in three volumes from Bloodaxe: Poems 1970-1984 (1995), Poems 1985-1996 (1996) and Poems 1997-2003 (2003). This is volume 2; we also have volume 1 in stock. Seller Inventory # #C0609013
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