-273.15

After mapping Britain’s national decline over thirty years through 25 books of poetry, Peter Reading reinvented himself as a writer in his 21st-century work. The bitter social critic became poetry’s Millennial prophet of doom, directing his venom and sorrow at the destruction of the world’s wildlife and environment. -273.15 [absolute zero] was his first new collection after his three-volume Collected Poems. The book is a lament, a tirade, a disaster warning, and an anthropologist’s catalogu...