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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. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry describes his verse as strongly anti-romantic, disenchanted and usually satirical .
He was educated at Alsop High School and Liverpool College of Art.
His first collection was published in 1974. Writer in residence at Marfa, Texas, with a Lannan Foundation Award Lannan Foundation - Peter Reading.
Cholmondeley Award (1978)
Dylan Thomas Award (1983), for Diplopic
Whitbread Prize for Poetry (1986), for Stet
Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, 1990 and 2004.
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)
Total Books: 38