Book 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'.
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.
