Peter Reading, Author Triquarterly Books $11.95 (110p) ISBN 978-0-8101-5005-8
British poet Reading's work, available in an American edition for the first time, is rambunctious, angry, and sometimes hilarious. Here, two books are published as one. Like a ventriloquist, in Ukelele Music Reading intermittently assumes the voice...
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Peter Reading, Author Bloodaxe Books $24.95 (318p) ISBN 978-1-85224-321-0
Reading, a British poet of bilious wit, takes real chances in his work. In this collection, which gathers his first eight books of poetry, he employs both traditional and innovative verse forms, playing them off against each other in poems that...
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Peter Reading, Author Bloodaxe Books $52.95 (317p) ISBN 978-1-85224-320-3
Reading, a British poet of bilious wit, takes real chances in his work. In this collection, which gathers his first eight books of poetry, he employs both traditional and innovative verse forms, playing them off against each other in poems that...
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Peter Reading, Author Bloodaxe Books $16.95 (64p) ISBN 978-1-85224-516-0
Relentlessly bleak, restlessly clever and suffused with metaphysical bile, Reading's 24 books of verse (all published since 1973) have won him fiercely devoted admirers in his native Britain. His latest, book-length poem responds to the year he...
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Peter Reading, Author Bloodaxe Books $16.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-85224-587-0
Respected in Britain since the early 1980s, Peter Reading, after 20-odd books, has begun to find an American audience for his poems and sequences of despair and misanthropy in demanding classical meters. Reading's last offering, Marfan, described
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Peter Reading, Author Bloodaxe Books $32.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-85224-724-9
In his first new collection since the third volume of his Collected Poems (2003), English avant-garde stalwart Reading points his trademark rage, sarcasm and cynicism-which he previously focused on England's political and cultural decline-on the...
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