Diplopic

by Peter Reading

First edition. Very slightly scuffed hardcover with lightly faded spine, upper edge of front board and inside edge of rear board. Dust jacket with sun faded spine and upper and inside edges. Faint traces of pencil on top of FEP; otherwise pages are clean and tight throughout. T

57 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1983

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".