Peter Reading
English poet and author (1946–2011) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Peter Reading (27 July 1946 – 17 November 2011[1]) was an English poet and the author of 26 collections of poetry. He is known for his deep interest in nature and the use of classical metres.[2] The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry describes his verse as "strongly anti-romantic, disenchanted and usually satirical".[3] Interviewed by Robert Potts, he described his work as a combination of "painstaking care" and "misanthropy".[4]