Reading, Peter : Essential Reading - Poems

Poet Peter Reading was born on 27 July 1946 in Liverpool, England.
He worked as a school teacher in Liverpool (1967-8) and at Liverpool College of Art where he taught Art History (1968-70). He was Writer in Residence at Sunderland Polytechnic (1981-3) and he won a Cholmondeley Award in 1978. His collection Diplopic (1983) won the inaugural Dylan Thomas Award. Stet (1986) won the Whitbread Poetry Award and he was awarded the Lannan Award for Poetry in 1990 and again in 2004. In 1997 he held the Creative Writing Fellowship at the University of East Anglia. The collection Marfan (2000) was inspired by his tenure as Lannan Foundation Writer in Residence in Marfa, Texas, in 1999.
His third volume of collected poems - Collected Poems Volume 3: 1997-2003 - was published in 2003. His last poetry collection was Vendage Tardive (2010).
Peter Reading died in November 2011.