- Peter Reading
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 [Keith Tuma, "Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry" (2001), p. 725.] . The "Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry" describes his verse as "strongly anti-romantic, disenchanted and usually satirical" [Entry byMartin Seymour-Smith ] .Early life
He was educated at Alsop High School and
Liverpool College of Art .As a poet
His first collection was published in 1974.
Writer in residence at
Marfa, Texas , with a Lannan Foundation Award [ [http://www.lannan.org/lf/bios/detail/peter-reading/ Lannan Foundation - Peter Reading ] ] [http://www.nd.edu/~ndr/issues/ndr12/reviews/peter.html] .Awards
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Cholmondeley Award (1978)
*Dylan Thomas Award (1983), for "Diplopic"
*Whitbread Prize for Poetry (1986), for "Stet"
*Lannan Literary Award for Poetry , 1990 and 2004.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)References
*Isabel Martin (2000), "Reading Peter Reading"
Notes
External links
* [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/profile/?p=auth214 At "Contemporary Writers"]
* [http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/98_99/readingbio.html Biography]
* [http://www.qualm.co.uk/mainpr.html#preading Poems, in "Qualm"]
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