Great Regulars: Here are three ventriloquized verses,

tap-room utterances which amuse in simple ways (malapropisms, "phonetic" rendering of speech) but have a curious, collective emotional impact, too. Born in Liverpool in 1946, [Peter] Reading has been described as an "anti-romantic" poet; he is also perhaps one of the finest, most formally versatile poets of the late twentieth century. The TLS has been fortunate to be able to publish so much of his work.

Eavesdropped

from Michael Caines: The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Eavesdropped

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