Selected Poems
Published on 1. November 2011
160 pages
978-0-571-27329-4 (ISBN)
Description
Christopher Reid won the Hawthornden Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award for his first collection, Arcadia, and has since then adopted a variety of guises: as 'Martian' poet, as Katerina Brac - she being the fictional Eastern European poet of whose work his collection of the same name purports to be translations - and as Alfred Stoker, the 100-year-old visionary. Included here as well are poems from Reid's powerful and moving elegiac volume, A Scattering, which was named Costa Book of the Year for 2009. This is an essential introduction to the work of a richly resourceful poet engaged in what he himself once described as 'provisional negotiations with untidy life'.
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Main
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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0,56 MB
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978-0-571-27329-4 (9780571273294)
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Christopher Reid is the author of a number of books of poems, including A Scattering (winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award) and The Song of Lunch (both 2009). From 1991 to 1999 he was Poetry editor at Faber and Faber, and has edited the Letters of Ted Hughes (2007). He is now a freelance writer and lives in London.
