Ob

by Peter Reading

Here Peter Reading's consolations of ""verse, viticulture, and love"" are mirrored in the extended swansong of Chinoiserie, a sequence of versions of the eighth-century Chinese poet Li Po, while the blunter associations of his title are encrypted in the book's progressively shorter obsolete, obscene, and obit (he died).

Genres: Poetry

62 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1999

About the author

Peter Reading (27 July 1946 – 17 November 2011) 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".