Peter Reading, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Peter Reading

English poet

Date of Birth: 27-Jul-1946

Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 17-Nov-2011

Profession: writer, poet, author

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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".