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The books he wrote just before and shortly after 'C' all had a tremendous pace and gusto, despite the focus on 'grot'. Bloodaxe only became his publishers in his later years, but they have done a multi-volume collected. He was a fine parodist and metrist too. Most of all, despite all the pessimism, or maybe as a necessary consequence of it, he was a comic poet, indeed, at his best as a mordant humorist. On 6 December 2011 00:19, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Thanks, David. > > I bought, read and admired Reading's 'C' when in your country whatever > year that > was, and am sorry not to have followed his work thoroughly. > > Bloodaxe books turn up in Aus bookshops but I never noticed those > mentioned by > the very good obit. > > Max in Melbourne > > Quoting David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>: > > > I hadn't noticed this. I think 'oh shit, Peter Reading's dead' is an > > acceptable elegiac. Pessimism has just got worse. > > > > > > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/02/peter-reading > > -- > > David Joseph Bircumshaw > > "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe > is > > that none of it has tried to contact us." > > - Calvin & Hobbes > > Website and A Chide's Alphabet > > http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk > > The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html > > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw > > twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave > > blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > This email was sent from Netspace Webmail: http://www.netspace.net.au > -- David Joseph Bircumshaw "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." - Calvin & Hobbes Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/david.bircumshaw twitter: http://twitter.com/bucketshave blog: http://groggydays.blogspot.com/