Reading, Peter
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Reading, Peter (1946– ), poet, born in Liverpool. Many of his collections display inventiveness and aggression in typography, verse form, and subject matter. Titles include
Nothing for Anyone (1977),
C (1984, a grim meditation on cancer), and
Ukulele Music (1985). Reading contrasts a reporter's unsparing evocation of the underside and underclass of non-metropolitan contemporary Britain—pub life, domestic brutality, street violence—with a mocking command of classical metrics ‘“Unemployed/Hopeless” doesn't sufficiently/Serve to explain Cro Magnon atrocities’ (
Stet, 1986).
Final Demands (1988) combined prose and verse, past and present, peace and war in an unsettling collage of different typefaces. The gallows-humour assault on decay and self-destruction continued in
Perduta Gente (1989),
Evagatory (1992),
Work in Regress (1997), and other volumes.
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