Work in Regress

by Peter Reading

Book by Peter Reading

61 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

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".

Reviews

[Keerthi Vasishta · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's very intellectual. And not. I don't care for a lot of these but there's some incredibly good poems in there. That's fine, what you'd expect from any full collection. I feel though, while innovative, it's hard for this to last the test of time as purely a poetic set, especially because it's so intellectual. I found the personal poetry, especially the idea that the dead are living beings you cannot see and the poem from the grave really beautiful.