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'.
Selected Poems
and over 1.5 million other books are available for Amazon Kindle . Learn more
| |||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. Learn more. |
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, and more.
Product Description
Book Description
The long-awaited Selected Poems charts the career of the Costa prize-winning poet Christopher Reid
About the Author
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.
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I turned to this after reading and enjoying both A Scattering and The Song of Lunch. It is not quite 'more of the same'. Rather the collection is drawn from 8 different collections of verse, some of which seem to have a degree of internal coherence, but which are, taken together, quite varied. For me, this really started to interest me with the excerpts from the third collection, which purport to be translations from the work of an East European poet, and are (a) quite credible and (b) quite simple in approach by comparison with the earlier work. From that point on, I very much enjoyed what was to come...and would recommend it to others.
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
