Date of Birth | 27-July-1946 | |
Place of Birth |
Liverpool (United Kingdom, England, Merseyside, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories, Lancashire, North West England) |
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Nationality | England | |
Profession | Poet | |
Peter Reading was an English poet and the author of 26 collections of poetry. He is known for his choice of ugly subject matter, and use of classical metres. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry describes his verse as "strongly anti-romantic, disenchanted and usually satirical". Interviewed by Robert Potts, he described his work as a combination of "painstaking care" and "misanthropy". |
Awards by Peter Reading |
Check all the awards nominated and won by Peter Reading. |